Roongkiat Ratanabanchuen – Risking It All on a Falling Stock

Roongkiat Ratanabanchuen is a Thai banking professional who has an impressive portfolio in the areas of a pension fund, mutual fund, and microfinance.  He is currently a full-time lecturer in Finance at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.  He also worked as a Risk Management Officer at Bank of Thailand.  He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering at Chulalongkorn University and earned a Master’s in Quantitative Finance at Cass Business school in London.  He finished his Doctorate in Pension Fund Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  He was awarded the 2017 CFA Institute Best Paper Award in Micro Structure which is a research scholarship in microfinance from the National Research Council of Thailand.  Recently, he won another research scholarship in the area of risk management of saving cooperatives from the Thailand Research Fund. In today’s episode, Dr. Roongkiat shares some of the investment mistakes he did when he risked it all on a falling stock. The time he spent managing that falling portfolio, caused him to miss other investment opportunities and for a time affected his confidence. Listen from his story and learn what you need to do to avoid the same mistakes he did.   “Learn to diversify and put that into action.” - Roongkiat Ratanabanchuen     What do you want to hear from the My Worst Investment Ever Podcast? Tell us here! Resources:  My Worst Investment Ever Book myworstinvestmentever.com   Topics Covered: 00:54 – Andrew introduces Dr. Roongkiat’s educational background and his research scholarships 02:23 – Sharing his worst investment ever and the story behind it 03:12 – Dr. Roongkiat tells the reason why he retained his investment and other problems encountered by the company 06:29 – How time lost and faith in the company brought him further problems 08:14 – Lessons learned from both Dr. Roongkiat’s and Andrew’s investments 13:25 – Citing his recommendation to avoid suffering the same fate   Main Takeaways: Lesson 1: “When you invest in a company, you need a lot more experience because this is quite difficult for us when the company can build around.”– Roongkiat Ratanabanchuen Lesson 2: “When you invest, you need to have some discipline that you need to limit your concentration of risk in a certain company.”- Roongkiat Ratanabanchuen Lesson 3: “Don't put too much money on one stock, because if something happens, then you may decide and then you may end up in a situation when you don't know what to do next. You know I do because I don't allow flexibility on my portfolio.”-Roongkiat Ratanabanchuen Lesson 4: “I basically came to the conclusion that 10 is the number of stocks that the average individual investor should hold in Asia.”– Andrew Stotz Lesson 5: “My next recommendation is they should hold them in equal weighting.”– Andrew Stotz Lesson 6: “Each investment that...