Plan to invest in a staggered manner over 8-12 weeks; continue to buy local: Jyotivardhan Jaipuria

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Jyotivardhan Jaipuria, Founder & MD, Valentis Advisors, says “we were negative on IT for the last 18 months. We have not owned a single IT share. But it is now coming on our screen. We typically look at stocks which are non-consensus. We are still not buying IT but if we get a major price cut on some bad news, then we will probably start nibbling into it. It would be probably too late to sell and maybe too early to buy but you want to buy this on some bad news.”

We were seeing a bit of consolidation in the last couple of days but there is a bit of a spike as well and a lot of global headlines. How are you approaching the markets right now? Putting money to work or keeping the powder dry?
For us, for the last few months we have been saying that the market is going to be in a consolidation phase. We probably had a price correction and more particularly will see a time correction. The largecaps have been like that. In the last three months, the largecaps have done nothing. They are more or less flattish, slightly down and it is the small and midcap space which have done well so far. But a consolidation is due in that space. We have some cash in the portfolio and we are keeping the powder dry in case there is a correction, but otherwise we are 85% invested.

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A bit cautious on the market but where do you see value if at all? Where are you putting fresh money to work? Is it financials and other consumption stories?
Yes, we are getting a lot of fresh money and we are doing two things. One is we are staggering our investments and,