Santa Fe, NM | Bangkok, Krung Thep
Also known as: mellingtoncartwright
Mel Sanborn lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but has also spent time in Bangkok, Krung Thep. She is a 2006 graduate of Evergreen State College and she works at Bench Jeweler. Metal, Tool, Cake, Bjork, Poe, Sleater-kinney, Stereolab, Wilco, Tori Amos, Death Cab For Cutie, Modest Mouse, Sigur Ros, The Postal Service, Kenny Chesney, Neko Case, The Flaming Lips, Paul Simon, Nada Surf, The Magnetic Fields, Cat Power, The Cranberries, Of Montreal, Manu Chao, Blonde Redhead, Joanna Newsom, Seu Jorge, Badly Drawn Boy, The Epoxies, Sean Lennon, Ugly Cassanova, Gilberto Gil, Yann Tiersen and The Smashing Pumpkins are her favorite bands. Her favorite movies are Suicide Girls, The Medium and South Pacific.
Glencoe, IL | Bangkok, Krung Thep
Also known as: dagrinch67
Chris Heinrich lives in Glencoe, Illinois. Chris has also lived in Bangkok, Krung Thep. Chris is a 2007 graduate of Middlebury College and Chris works in the capacity of Editorial Assistant. Prince, Ludacris, Blackalicious, Gorillaz, Mylo, Jurassic 5, Daft Punk, Gipsy Kings, The Pharcyde and Gotan Project are Chris's favorite bands. One of Chris's favorite TV shows is The L Word. Chris's favorite movies are Lost In Translation and The Constant Gardener.
Bangkok, Krung Thep | Baltimore, MD | Cary, NC
Also known as: ShawnMRill
Personal Development Coach with a Life Mission to be Awesome, travel the world, and help others reach more of their potential.
Bangkok, Krung Thep | Prairie City, IA | Green Valley, AZ
Also known as: Ponkster_Funkster
We as value investors focus only on good quality undervalued Indian companies with durable competitive advantage.Main problem in India is in deciding where to invest, how long to invest, how much to invest and how much to expect in return in a given period of time.We invest only in undervalued, low risk, good quality businesses at right price and holding them for long period of time.• Based on the below mentioned process, we select few under valued and good quality investments in India.• After conducting more than a decade worth of research, valuations and risk analysis on India's equity market and working at Wall Street, we now very strongly believe inIndian companies growth potential.• Due to this firm belief, depth of our investing knowledge and discipline, we envision that if we can make few concentrated wise investments now, we can benefit from future economic growth.So to sum up our investment philosophy, we will be investing only in reasonably priced, simple & good businesses with durable competitive advantage with competent management able enough to grow the economic moat for considerableamount of time.Why Now• Goldman Sachs economist Jim O' Neill was the first to show the potential significance of BRIC economies in 2003. Their forecast of ~ 5% annual growth rate of India's GDP looked very optimistic at that time. Given the presentgrowth rate, in 2008, they revised the estimate growth rate to 8.5% per year for the next decade.Specialties:While investing we look for companies which lies in our circle of competence, one which we can easily understand and evaluate. • Then we will analyze them to see if we can easily predict how the business will look like in the next 5 to10 years, if any kind of catastrophic risk or credit related risks looks possible, then we reject that idea. • Then we look at company's valuations (Data of last 5 to 10 years of : sales growth, profit margins, book value, dividends, competition & risk etc.)
