​Rajeev Thakkar CIO PPFAS Mutual Fund – Inside the mind of a long term investor 

Publication: ET Money

Date: 24 July 2025

– Don’t be over-optimistic or over-pessimistic; be realistic. See things as they are and be aware of things that could go wrong. 

– Give your investments sufficient time – say, 5 years to perform. 

– Your judgement of an investment should largely be based on the performance of the company and not its stock price. 

– Volatility is a risk for traders, not for investors. The company not performing during the investor’s time frame is the risk for long term investors.

– Mutual fund investors should stick to diversified equity funds. 

– Avoid behavioural issues such as anchoring, recency bias, etc.

– The ability to delay gratification (think long term) can be very profitable for investors.

– You can break up long term trends into two categories – one is consumer trends which are easy to spot. Go to malls, shops, etc., to see what people are doing to spot consumer trends. Government induced trends are also easy to spot, for instance, government encouraging domestic manufacturing, energy transition to renewable energy, etc.

– Business to business trends are slightly more difficult to spot. 

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