What we do.

Banyan Tree Advisors is a portfolio management company established in 2004, and based in Bangalore, India. We are registered with the Securities and Exchanges Board of India (SEBI), and are subject to its rules and regulations regarding capital requirements, disclosure and auditing norms. As of March 2012, we manage about Rs. 118 crores ($ 23 million) from 197 clients.
We are value investors. Our objectives for our investors are three-fold: first, to preserve capital, second to beat the risk free rate of return, and third, to beat the equity index rate of return. We achieve this by investing for the long term in high quality companies at prices that are at a reasonable discount to their intrinsic value. Here is a quick overview of what we do.

Safety first.

Your first objective should to be to preserve your capital.As a wise man said, there are only two rules of investing:

Rule 1: Don’t lose money.

Rule 2: When in doubt, refer to Rule 1.

Your most important objective for your investments should be capital preservation – ensuring that you do not lose money. Stock markets are extremely volatile, and it is extremely easy to lose your capital if you are not careful.

Here are three investing objectives that should guide every investor seeking to invest in the equity markets.

Ravi Shankar
Why investing in India continues to be exciting.

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It is difficult to find a person who is bullish on India these days – high inflation and a policy paralysis combined with poor recent industrial growth numbers have taken the sheen off the long term India story. It makes sense to step back and take a longer term view.

A look at a variety of macro and micro indicators suggests that the long term India story continues to be bright…Read more.