Zee Business, Motilal Oswal create platform to learn from investing mistakes

Zee Business hosted the first of its series of seminars under its investors education initiative called ‘Investor Ki Kahani Usi Ki Zubani’. The seminar, held on July 2, 2011, at the BSE in Mumbai, saw a turnout of over 600 investors attending the session.

The seminar started with opening remarks by Motilal Oswal, CMD, Motilal Oswal Financial Services, where he spoke about the company’s initiative – ‘Investor Ki Kahani Usi Ki Zubani’, and why it was important for investors to be well versed with the nuances of the market. According to Oswal, “Equities have delivered good returns over long period of time and is an important asset class for wealth creation. However, in shorter term it can be volatile and impact one’s portfolio. Hence, it is important for investors to understand the dynamics of equity markets and take informed decisions based on sound advice.”

Manish Sonthalia, VP – Fund Manager, Motilal Oswal AMC, then gave advice on the shortlisted cases from investors who shared their investing mistakes at the seminar. He explained to the investors the importance of using several market mechanisms like stop loss to one’s advantage and several other strategies that can be used for different situations. This was followed by a special presentation by Gaurav Manihar, VP – Equity Advisory, which helped the audience understand the differences between trading and investing; how one should identify themselves as an Investor or Trader and then stick to the gameplan and shared various other insights about investing.

The last session was on Market Outlook by Manish Sonthalia. He spoke about the short term challenges facing Indian markets, the extent of these factors being factored in stock prices currently and opportunities which exist when conditions turn for the better.

Within 10 days of the launch of the campaign, more than 500 investors shared their cases and have in turn received advice from Motilal Oswal’s panel of experts. The seminar then moved to Ahmedabad on July 16, 2011.

‘Investor Ki Kahani Usi Ki Zubani’ is an initiative taken by Zee Business and Motilal Oswal Securities in an endeavour to educate the investors about the nuances of investing in stock markets. It is a unique series of on-ground seminars which will be held in different cities across India. This series aims to invite investors to share their problems/ mistakes made during investing and in turn they will get expert advice from Motilal Oswal Securities on how to solve those problems.