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Business News > Mint Authors > Shyam Sekhar

Shyam Sekhar

ARTICLES BY SHYAM SEKHAR

Most people chase investments only after most of the success it can deliver is behind us.

The high cost of chasing market success too late

3 min read . 13 Jan 2026

Investors spend far more time hunting for new stocks than thinking about what their portfolio should look like.

Why portfolio strategy, not stock picking, decides who wins in the market

4 min read . 09 Dec 2025

For institutional investors, anchor allotments became an easy and assured route to deploy large sums efficiently. (Pixabay)

How IPO reforms created a new kind of investor euphoria

3 min read . 04 Nov 2025

Opinion | Adequate data can help improve our tax systems

2 min read . 12 Jan 2020

Opinion | Good research may throw up a few multibaggers in the micro-cap space

3 min read . 16 Dec 2019

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Opinion | Karvy crisis an opportunity to tighten norms

3 min read . 29 Nov 2019

Opinion | It’s important to teach the value of money early on

3 min read . 13 Nov 2019

Opinion | Investments in small-caps will be beautiful, but only selectively

3 min read . 12 Aug 2019

Opinion | Merely reducing interest rates won’t do, we need monetary transmission

3 min read . 06 Jun 2019

Opinion | Why investors should stick to strong, sustainable, standalone business

3 min read . 05 May 2019

Opinion | Every market cycle gives an opportunity to transform your portfolio

3 min read . 26 Mar 2019

Shyam Sekhar is chief executive officer of iThought and an angel investor.

'The time is ripe to create an info system for the DIY investor'

1 min read . 06 Mar 2019

Opinion | Stock investors not nimble enough yet

4 min read . 26 Feb 2019

The crux of a tax savings portfolio is compounding over long years. (Mint)

Opinion | Go for the right mix of debt, equity and insurance

3 min read . 28 Jan 2019

Opinion | The importance of debating economic consequences of electoral outcomes

3 min read . 13 Jan 2019

The coming months will see market preferences shift significantly. Photo: Reuters

Opinion: The key to ride choppy markets is sticking to logic

4 min read . 20 Nov 2018

Softening interest rates helped NBFCs grow their books aggressively. Photo: Mint

Why market view changed for financials

3 min read . 04 Oct 2018

The near-term challenge before us is to seize the right opportunities thrown our way due to increasing market volatility. Photo: HT

Opinion | How to deal with volatility effectively

3 min read . 13 Aug 2018

Compounders will always turn out to be multi-baggers, but the reverse is not a workable assumption. Photo: iStock

Multi-baggers are as fickle as the markets

3 min read . 03 Jul 2018

In bull markets, time and public perception play an important role in an investor’s performance. Photo: AP

How to balance the anxiety of a bull market and the calm of a bear market

3 min read . 22 May 2018