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The “Handling Financial Emergencies” podcast done with Tushar Mittal. In this episode, Sanjit Talks about how individuals should think about financial preparedness in both personal and professional contexts. The discussion highlights the importance of planning for unexpected financial disruptions such as income loss, medical emergencies, or sudden expenses. It contrasts corporate financial planning with personal money management and emphasizes building resilience through structured cash flow awareness and disciplined financial decision-making. The episode forms part of Modulor Capital’s broader research-led approach to wealth advisory, focusing on risk understanding, liquidity preparedness, and long-term financial stability

Podcast – Handling Financial Emergencies

We think differently when planning finances for a company (work-life) than when we do it for ourselves (personal life). Understand what goes into thinking about financial emergencies and a bit more, in this conversation between Sanjit and Tushar. Watch below... https://youtu.be/H05pN4EjVt8?si=av3MuSagFBeRBNal Watch on Youtube Introduction Video Transcript: Financial success is often associated with education, career growth, and smart investments. ...
Podcast illustration for Quantamental Investing featuring discussion on combining fundamental, quantitative, and technical approaches to portfolio construction at Modulor Capital.

Podcast – Quantamental Investing

My investing journey has shaped my investment style. A few bits on how we use Quantamental Investing to build Value, Growth, and Sentiment portfolios at Modulor Capital. Listen below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjqdKm04npQ Watch on Youtube Listen on Spotify Video Transcript: Host: Welcome to the Super Investors Podcast, where we connect with some of the most successful investors and wealth creators. In our inaugural episode, we are delighted to host Sanjit Singh, Managing ...
Investment framework illustration showing professional investing approach using strategy-based, systematic, and goal-oriented portfolio construction.

How to invest like a pro

The critical reason that professional investors make more money than most other investors is that they engage with the financial markets (of all sorts) full-time. This does not imply they are more intelligent than other non-professional investors but does imply that they invest with clear-cut agendas. They design specific strategies to meet these agendas and ...
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How to invest if you are a newbie

As an adviser, we get to interact with clients at various stages of investor maturities. While some clients are beginning to build a portfolio, others already have one. In the process of giving clients investment advice, the first part of our job is to unwind their complex portfolios before we build them one which is ...
The Risk-Safety Quadrant of Investing explaining the difference between investment risk and safety

The Risk-Safety Quadrant of Investing

In a world where individuals and institutions are “required” to invest, minimizing risk and finding safety has become a necessity. Investors often use Risky and Safe as opposite words when assessing an investment. The two words are antonyms of each other in the English language. However, in the world of finance, they can mean a different ...
The Quantamental investing process for building and managing research-driven investment portfolios.

The Quantamental Investing Process – How we build and manage portfolios

The QVGS Framework defines principles at the market, portfolio, and security levels useful for creating and managing portfolios across asset classes and market segments. Managing portfolios is a continuous endeavor. This requires us to follow a strategy-based approach to generate returns from different sources and be system-driven to manage risk. At Modulor Capital, we run 3 processes ...
Hand-drawn sketch by Sanjit illustrating satellite objectives in the PIC framework for structured investment goal setting and portfolio alignment.

PIC — The Satellite Investment Objectives

When individuals and families are able to satisfy their needs of: being able to cover for immediate-term contingencies — Preservation, having enough to survive through protracted tough times — Accumulation, and growing their wealth through the efforts of others — Growth they look to do more with their money. Satisfaction of needs through Core Investment Objectives leads individuals and families to pursue their desires. At ...
Hand-drawn sketch by Sanjit illustrating the “GAP of Investing” showing the difference between expectations, behavior, and actual market outcomes.

GAP – The Core Investment Objectives

In the previous article “Quantamental Investment Objectives”, we defined Fundamental Investment Objectives as (i) Funding, (ii) Financing, and (iii) Safe-haven that determines how the money is invested and where it goes. Alongside, Quantitative Investment Objectives of (a) Risk-free, (b) Inflation, (c) Compounding, (d) Fat-tailed, and (e) Exponential are the shapes of distributions that determine how the returns on the investment and experience of the investor will be when investing this money. These ...
Hand-drawn sketch by Sanjit illustrating the Three Bucket Strategy for allocating investments across short-term, medium-term, and long-term financial goals.

The Three Bucket Strategy

Modern times need a new approach to specific areas within old relationship structures. One such area that is being challenged by modern times is finances in a relationship. The Traditional Relationship In the old world, marriage had clearly defined roles. The traditional “husband” of the marriage worked outside the house and generated money. This out-of-house work was complemented by in-the-house ...