My biggest investing lessons

As one invests, one learns in two ways. One, from experience. And two, from reading the experiences and learnings of other successful investors. While in some ways learning from experience can have a bigger impact on our minds and future actions, the learnings of others provide a foundation for our own investment philosophy and approach. Imagine being a value investor without having read any of the ideas of Buffett, Graham and others. Not possible! Here, we catch up with three fund managers to find out their biggest investing lessons. For Harsha Upadhyaya, CIO - Equity, Kotak Asset Management, moving on from one's mistakes is key. Vetri Subramaniam, Head Equity, UTI AMC shares how a big market crash taught him to rethink his risk appetite and asset allocation. Finally, Anand Radhakrishnan, Managing Director & CIO - Emerging Markets Equity - India, Franklin Templeton brings home the point that high valuations are often justified. 'Have the ability to accept mistakes and correct them' Harsha Upadhyaya, CIO - Equity, Kotak Asset

This article was originally published on August 24, 2020.