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I have just started subscribing to your magazine Wealth Insight. I would like to know how I can take the best out of 'Stock Ideas' and 'Stock Insight' sections. I understand in Stock Ideas you publish a list of stocks which conform to the set principles of each head, depending on which the customer can take a call whether to buy, sell or hold the stock. Since this section comes out with a fresh list every month, the timeframe can be set as 30 days. But what about the 'Stock Insight'? What timeframe an investor should take regarding the stocks featured there?

- Ravikanth L

Stock Ideas and Stock Insight are two different concepts. Stock Ideas are not stock tips nor are they a call list for the reader to invest. Stock Ideas also do not have a time horizon, for example, a month or six months. A month is too short a time to make an investment opinion about a stock.

At Value Research it is our endeavour to help you become a better investor. Here we do not offer you stock tips but our role is of an independent facilitator in helping you shortlist stocks that fit into different investment needs. We feel it is for us to share with you ways to gain from stock market investing.

To put it simply, Value Research Stock Ideas are time-tested principles that have evolved with experience, changing circumstances and different investor needs. Stock Ideas also serve as the starting point, which, over time, will help you develop your own rules to investing and at the same time develop your own portfolio. You can choose the investment style as per your objective; for example, a retired investor may seek dividend yield stocks, whereas an aggressive small-cap will find favour with youth. We give you a list of companies which qualify to those quantitative conditions and which is purely based on numbers.

A pertinent point here is that nothing should prevent you from further enquiring about these qualitative factors as there can be a situation where a stock may find itself in the Stock Ideas section but may not be worth investing. Numbers alone sometimes don't tell the whole story.

New stocks constantly appearing in our list means you get an opportunity to analyse new companies. But, at the same time, a stock exiting our list doesn't mean that it is out of favour. It just means that it might not be the right time to enter or one should take a long-term view of the investment.

Stock Insight, on the other hand, is one step ahead of the Stock Ideas. We handpick a few stocks from the list which we find compelling after in-depth analysis and considering numerous qualitative and quantitative factors such as management, business prospects and timing of the stock. We present our study in a simple way so that you can understand what the company does and the factors that will lead to its growth further. The time horizon for the Stock Insight companies varies a great deal: an event based situation to holding till retirement.

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