Coffee Can Investing: The Low-Risk Road to Stupendous Wealth

Must Read for 'investors' for long term wealth creation in India Stock Markets

Disclaimer: I am somewhat biased to the Coffee can investing approach. Hence it's likely my review is somewhat generous.The book offers some solid advice backed by numbers and stats on how to build a strong portfolio.Indians are quite sheep like when it comes to investing(among many other things) as they tend to invest heavily in real estate and gold(generally due to social pressure & memetic rivlary). The book does give a decent picture on why it's not a prudent path and offers more profitable alternatives. Although it is a common sense advice to the rest of the world, this is considered a contrarian advice in India. Given how ubiquitously misinformated, ethically challenged and poorly accounted Indian market is, the book does a decent job of providing a big picture.The frustrating part is that the book dumbs down all of concept. It assumes you don't know don't jack about anything and oversimplify things. Since target audience is the average Indian who has never invested or considered the possibility of investing in equity ( and positively unlikely to invest in anything other than gold & housing) one cannot complaint about this approach. Its recommended only for Indians who as never invested in any financial instruments other than gold & housing.

Well, the book deals with real life kind of stories about how generally Indians invest there money in the urban India ., but mainly this book is a very clever disguise to promote ambit capital as an investment firm. most of the knowledge in the book is already in public domain and researching clean and safe stocks anyways is not any layman individuals job , so indirectly the author is suggesting that kindly invest with ambit capital to create the coffee can portfolio.Disappointed by the book.

I have earlier read the book " The unusual billionaire " of the same author and found the said book very interesting and useful for building my long term portfolio. Keeping in view of the same , i purchased this book from Amazon. However, i am totally disappointed by reading this book. The authors have not added any practical guidance for building long term portfolio. i think this is total waste of money for purchasing this book. I was not expecting such book from the renowned author Mr Saurabh and his colleages.

It's too basic for any investor who is already into mutual fund or stock market investing.

Nicely wrapped! I am happy to get nice brand new book! Quick delivery! Now I gotta read it ..:)