Book Review for Coffee Can Investing

 Book review for 

COFFEE CAN INVESTING

By Saurabh Mukharjea, Pranab Uniyal and Rakshit Ranjan

 

Coffee can investing by Saurabh Mukhkarjea, Pranab Uniyal and Rakshit Ranjan is a book that develops on the “low risk road to stupendous wealth” methods, that provides crystal clear approach one should go for to boost their returns by filtering their investments according to the coffee can portfolio measures. This book is indeed a gift for anyone and everyone that dreams of having a relaxed retirement with a comfortable standard of living. 

Firstly, chapter 1, that is “Mr Talwar’s uncertain future” develops through the stories of the protagonists of the book, that are carried out as examples throughout. After a complete analysis of both of their current investment portfolios, they realized how important it is to plan and furthermore, invest in asset classes that not only provide high returns but also have lower volatility. 

Chapter 2 being “Coffee can investing” itself, various epitome ratios have been explained along with the ideal figures they should be at for those particular company’s stocks to be lucrative for the investors. Furthermore, every category of requirements is meticulously portrayed with the help of a case study and much more statistical data to support it as well. 

Next up, with “Expenses matter” as the 3rd chapter, the importance of paying attention to fund expenses is shown, with busting other myths regarding market outperformance, that has

opened the eyes of many investors that had previously let this factor go unnoticed. 

The chapter 4- “The Real estate trap”, builds upon how the long embedded perceptions of real estate as an asset class in the Indian society, have lost the chances for thousands of people to earn far higher returns. 

Chapter 5- “Small is beautiful”, then elaborates on how the stocks of smaller scale companies’ returns vary from a large margin from those of larger scale companies. This has helped provide perspective to investors about how investing in the next rising giants can increase the returns of their portfolios exponentially. 

With “How patience and quality intervene” as chapter 6, the benefit one can receive just by holding their quality investments through thick and thin is explained upon, that is one of the most uncertain parts of investment- investor psychology. 

The chapter 7 of “pulling it all together” then helps the readers to summarize all that is learnt from the previous 6 chapters and then accordingly apply all the knowledge gained to the portfolios of the protagonist investors from the start of the book. Thus, proving the increase in efficiency that the coffee can portfolio can bring for one's better future. 

Lastly, the final chapter- “Designing your own financial plan”, takes one more case study into account to finally make a full fledged financial plan for an investor. 

To collate, the book overall did have many concepts that can help individuals to go from some measly low returns to having enough for their future plans to come.

~ Shagun Johrii