About Me

I am Vikaas Agarwala – writer, investment advisor, teacher, and founder of jaagrav. Two reasons for this name: First, it happens to be my son’s name and Second, it means Being Observant.

Through www.jaagrav.com, I have been attempting to put my observations around Risk, Investing and Human Behavior!! Having spent more than 15 years as a corporate banker, equity analyst and risk consultant at various global organizations, I started this website as a side-hustle in 2018, thanks to my wife’s prodding, and since then, have thoroughly enjoyed this journey thus far!!

I provide the following services:

Articles: I try to pen down my observations, primarily around Investing, at least once a week!! You may register here to read some stuff!!

Investment Advisory: Since I had been investing for myself in Equities for more than a decade, couple of friends and relatives with whom I shared my views – some made money; however, most had opportunity losses, since they didn’t invest, considering it to one of those hot TIPs. Hence, I decided to formalize this.

Workshops & Webinars: Conducted 2-day investing workshops at IIT-Mumbai and IBS, Hyderabad, my alma-mater!! Have enjoyed conducting webinars for the students and my clients regularly. I have been a visiting faculty at Imarticus, Edupristine & Mumbai Institute of Management & Research in the past.

But none of the above would have been possible without a few folks, who instilled in me to start, at times (re)-start this journey. My sincerest thanks to Mayank Pachauri, my first client, mentor, and my college senior – his insights throughout this journey have been unparalleled. Rajesh Pillai, my school pal, tech wizard and my marketing guru – he seeded in me to have my own website (It was a distant dream, at least till 2017). Also, Aman Khandelwal who has been instrumental in getting the website to its current architectural form – it would not have been possible without him.

Not to forget my investors, subscribers, friends, and relatives – after all, the journey has just begun!!

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