{"id":21589,"date":"2021-07-06T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T10:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/?p=21589"},"modified":"2021-08-31T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T10:55:25","slug":"what-happened-to-indias-worst-market-timer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/mf-research\/what-happened-to-indias-worst-market-timer\/21589","title":{"rendered":"What happened to India&#8217;s worst market timer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Blog_July_06_21_page-Banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1025\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Blog_July_06_21_page-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Blog_July_06_21_page-Banner.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Blog_July_06_21_page-Banner-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Blog_July_06_21_page-Banner-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The movie \u2018Just My Luck\u2019 starring Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine has an interesting plot involving luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lindsay plays a character who is always lucky. She works for a great company. She wins every time she plays scratch cards. When she leaves her house, it even stops raining.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris, on the other hand, plays a character who is totally out of luck. He works as a janitor. It starts raining when he steps outside. And no matter what he does, something always goes wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens when their lives get intertwined makes up the rest of the story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-23.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"259\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-23.png 259w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-23-203x300.png 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This movie got me wondering about the role of luck in equity investing \u2013&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#333399\" class=\"has-inline-color\">What would be the portfolio returns of the luckiest and unluckiest equity investors?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us find out..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will take the example of two hypothetical investors Ms Lucky &amp; Mr Unlucky who have been diligently saving a portion of their salary every month for the last 2 decades. As their salaries increased by 5% every year, they also increased their savings by 5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They differ, though, in when and how they invest their money in equities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of them believe in timing their entries into equities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So they keep accumulating their savings in a debt fund every month, and they deploy their entire accumulated amount into equities if they feel the timing is right. They continue with this process for the last 2 decades.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>Mr Unlucky &#8211; Always invests in equity just before a market fall<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to his never-ending misfortune and bad timing skills, Mr Unlucky always ends up shifting his accumulated savings from debt into equity just before a market crash (&gt;20% fall).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-24-1024x556.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-24-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-24-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-24-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-24.png 1054w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past two decades, he moved his money seven times into equity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every single time, the market fell by over 20% immediately after he invested due to different reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"649\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-30.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-30.png 649w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-30-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>Ms Lucky &#8211; Always invests in equity at the bottom of a market fall<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to her incredible luck, she moves the accumulated amount into equity exactly at the bottom of all major falls (&gt;20% declines), every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-26.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-26-1024x558.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-26-1024x558.png 1024w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-26-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-26-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-26.png 1051w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Now here is a quick quiz for you&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#333399\" class=\"has-inline-color\">What is the annualized return for Mr Unlucky over the past 20 years?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>a) 0 to 5%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b) 5 to 10%&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c) 10 to 15%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a guess?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21594\" width=\"290\" height=\"287\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Intuitively given the unbelievably bad timing skills, it looks like it should be in the 0-5% range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But hold your breath &#8211; Option C is the right answer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mr Unlucky made a decent return of 11.8% annually despite his bad timing skills!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just to put that in perspective, if he had only invested in debt, he would have made an annualized return of just 7.8% in the past two decades &#8211; which is significantly lower than the returns of the unlucky equity investor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-27.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"861\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-27.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-27.png 861w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-27-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-27-768x176.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 861px) 100vw, 861px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#6aa84f\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> <big>Takeaway 1: Even if you were unlucky and only invested right before large market falls, you still made decent returns over the long run &#8211; much higher than debt returns<\/big><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#333399\" class=\"has-inline-color\">What is the annualized return for Ms Lucky over the past 20 years?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the case of the lucky investor who timed and invested perfectly at the bottom of all seven declines, the CAGR would have been 16%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is fairly intuitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here comes the interesting part&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if there was another investor &#8211; a normal fellow human being like you and me &#8211; who has no ability to predict the markets. Let us call him Mr Humble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Humble instead of regularly investing in debt funds and moving it into equities did a simpler thing &#8211; a monthly SIP directly into equities (via Nifty 50 TRI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#333399\" class=\"has-inline-color\">What is the annualized return for Mr Humble (the SIP investor) over the past 20 years?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A cool 14.7%!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You read that right. The humble SIP investor\u2019s return was pretty close to the lucky investor who had perfect timing foresight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-28.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"799\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-28.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-28.png 799w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-28-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-28-768x440.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#6aa84f\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><big>Takeaway 2: A Simple SIP comes pretty close to the lucky market timer over the long run<\/big><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#333399\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Why are the returns good even when invested at the wrong time?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer is really simple \u2013 <strong>TIME <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the unlucky investor invested only at the wrong time, he didn\u2019t take his money out after that and withstood all the future declines without panicking out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This simple but difficult act of patience gave the portfolio a long enough time horizon to let compounding work its magic.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there is a natural tendency to shrug this off given the simplicity of the solution, here is some hard-hitting evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the returns of lumpsum investments in Nifty 50 TRI till date when invested right before the major falls of the past two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-35.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"895\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-35.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-35.png 895w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-35-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-35-768x288.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 895px) 100vw, 895px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As seen above, a long time horizon compensates even for the worst starting points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#6aa84f\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><big>Takeaway 3: TIME is a superpower. It works well even for the most unlucky investor!<\/big><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#333399\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Summing it up<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As seen above with the superpower of time even the most unlucky investor ended up with a reasonable outcome outperforming debt funds and inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A simple SIP removes the need to time the markets and if given enough time provides a return that is almost as good as the hypothetical lucky market timer (who will never exist in reality)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you have a long time horizon, a simple SIP in a few good equity funds for the next 10-15 years, and the patience to let it run ignoring all the intermittent noise, is all it takes to ensure a good investment outcome.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do not let the inherent simplicity of the solution undermine its ability to deliver the magic of compounding.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie \u2018Just My Luck\u2019 starring Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine has an interesting plot involving luck. 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