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“The key to investing is not how smart we are or how fast we go. It is to be right more often than we are wrong. Big money is made swinging big for the fat pitches. It is going for the big bet right inside our competence circle. That’s the key to investing.” – Chris Susanto
About Chris Susanto
Chris is the Founder of Re-ThinkWealth.com & VIM (Value Investing Mentorship Club®).
He is also a Board Member at Bansea and an Independent Director of Bansea Fund 2. Bansea is Asia’s oldest angel investment network, founded in 2001.
Chris started investing in stocks early at age 21 and is a big proponent of business-like stock investing – a mixture of value and growth investing.
He invests in listed companies where there is value to be found (as long as it is still within his circle of competence), be it a turnaround, depressed, value, or quality growth company (compounders).
Some of the places where Chris has been invited to speak or have added value as a mentor or writer include Singapore Polytechnic, SMU Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE), Seedly TV, Dollars and Sense, The New Savvy, Value Walk Blog, Investment Moats, NUS Tembusu College, NUS Investment Society, CGS-CIMB Singapore, Singapore Financial Conference by NTU IIC, The Financial Coconut Podcast, Money FM 89.3 and Internationally in Myanmar. He is also a part of the SMU BFI (Business Families Institute) network.
Chris is also a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation.
“Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I’ve had. Meditation leads to openness, to freedom, where a kind of intuition just comes through. You could step back and put things in perspective” – Ray Dalio on Transcendental Meditation, founder of the largest hedge fund in the world with $140 Billion under management.
If you are also on LinkedIn, feel free to connect with Chris on Linkedin here and say hi!
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The Best Value Investing Course in Singapore – VIM Mentorship?
Value Investing Mentorship is created with the goal to be the most effective and exclusive value investing online program. The approach is using twelve exclusive one to one educational lessons that come with assignments to do after each session. With the benefits of […]
Like Investing, Selling Options is Equally Hard. Here’s Why.
Having multiple streams of income is important in my life. In stock investments, most investors I know get their streams of passive income from capital gains and dividends. Getting premiums/cash flow through selling options is another strategy I often use. But all the serious investors will tell you […]
The Intelligent Investor Summary (Ultimate Guide) | Re-ThinkWealth
Warren Buffett said that The Intelligent Investor is the best book ever written on investing. This book contains over 600 pages of wisdom. The wisdom that serves as the building blocks for all value investors. This is The Intelligent Investor Summary. Enjoy! Warren Buffett […]
To Make Decisions Like Charlie Munger, Understand Your Emotions Well
The quality of our thinking creates the quality of our life. If the above sentence is true, then Charlie Munger must have made plenty of high-quality decisions over the course of his lifetime. Charlie is currently worth about US$1.8 Billion. He is the right-hand man of Warren Buffett who […]
5 Things to Do During A Stock Market Crash | Re-ThinkWealth
If you are an investor of stocks, you would know that currently (as of November 2018), we are in a (or nearing) stock market correction/bear territory. Before things get worse, here are 5 intelligent things to do during any stock market crash. Here is your playbook for successful investing:
The 100+ Most Intelligent Value Investing Quotes of All Time | Re-ThinkWealth
This list summarizes 100+ of the best value investing quotes of all time. They are spoken from some of the best value investing minds in the industry that I have modeled after for my investing philosophy. Both that have passed away (Benjamin Graham) and those that are […]
Is Spotify Stock Invest-Worthy? Seeing it From A Value Perspective.
Daniel Ek has built a great business with Spotify. Now that it has recently IPO-ed in 2018, is this digital music streaming service of his, invest-worthy? I am sure that by now you would most likely have heard of Spotify before. But I am sure that not many of you know that Spotify was founded and […]
2 Billion Users ( > China Population): Why I Am Long on Facebook Stock
But over time, I would like to invest in good businesses at a fair price instead of continuing to invest in an OK business at a cheap price. Due to Facebook’s recent drop in its share price, I took a stake in Facebook during the past few months and right now, it consists of about a quarter of my portfolio.
Part 2 of 2: The Limitations of The Black Scholes Model (by Warren Buffett)
Before we touch on the limitations of Black-Scholes. let’s do a brief recap. In the first part of the article, we talked about how the Black-Scholes model is used to price options. They are commonly known as the options pricing model to know the fair price of the put or call options. There […]
Part 1 of 2: Here’s How to Use The Black-Scholes Model to Price Options
The Black-Scholes model was first developed by three economists. Two of them – Myron Scholes and Robert Merton – received a Nobel prize in 1997 for their work in this model. The Black-Scholes model is also commonly known as the options pricing model. And as the name indicates […]
New Logo Design for Re-ThinkWealth (Value Investing Blog)
The above image is how the new Re-ThinkWealth logo looks like. As you might have noticed, it is a combination of “R” and “W” which stands for Re-ThinkWealth. At the same time, the shape of the logo embodies the resemblance of how a stock market will behave. The stock market goes down and up […]
Here Are My Reflections After 3 Years 7 Months in The Stock Market
So basically, I knew that if I cannot beat the S&P 500 return over the long run, it’s better if I just invest in the S&P 500. While the S&P 500 practices in a huge diversification of 500 big companies listed in the U.S., my U.S. portfolio practices concentration of ideas in which I am most certain about […]
10 Reasons Why We Should Rethink How to Build Our Wealth
I am 25 years old this year and I am always fascinated by how a change in our thinking can result in a huge change in our wealth. I am convinced by the notion that how we think creates the wealth that we have. And writing has been an integral part of it all because it gives me an avenue to pen […]
Here’s My Quick Thought on Starbucks Stock
Starbucks is a company that needs not much introduction. I am sure that most of us have drunk Starbucks coffee before. And many of us have studied or did some work or caught up with a friend there. Starbucks is a familiar company that is in almost every airport around the world. Their story though started back in Seattle […]
Theranos Incident Shows Why It’s Dangerous to Invest Based on Hopes And Dreams
I do admit that a business is nothing without goals, hopes, and dreams. A successful business requires the founder to have a vision and to be able to turn that vision into reality. A successful business is one that has managed to turn hopes and dreams into reality. And by reality, I mean cash. Cold hard cash. Think Apple, […]
Qualcomm Will Not Supply Apple’s 2018 iPhones – And That is Okay (Q3 2018 Results)
Qualcomm is the company that supplies phone makers like Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Apple chips so that their phone can be a “smartphone.” Different chip suppliers will have different chips. And just by having a different chip, the performance of the phone can vary greatly. I am vested in Qualcomm since 24 January 2018 at an average price of about $53. Here are the […]
Thinking of Betting in World Cup 2018 or Investing in Stocks? Read this first.
1. Soccer is very unpredictable – The ball is round. as of 28 of June 2018 in the qualifying round, Germany is out of the world cup. Who could have predicted that? Not UBS and Goldman Sachs, that’s for sure, who predicted Germany would win the cup and go to the final respectively. 2. The more the potential payout, the lesse […]
24/3/2017 Was The First Time I Bought GameStop: About Time a Private Equity Firm is Interested in it!
Because the fact is that today, it is reported by Reuters that GME has received buyout interest and is holding talks with private equity firms about a potential transaction. Seems like Sycamore Partners – one of the PE firms that have expressed interest in GME agrees with my conclusion and analysis that GME is mispriced […]
Unique 4M1S Framework
I created the 4M1S framework through my years of experience investing in the stock market since I was 21 – utilizing both stocks and options (buy and sell).
The framework is created mainly through my personal experience of what works and what does not work in the stock market.
More Testimonials on Chris
“Despite having >15yrs stock invest experience, I needed 1:1 guidance to stay focused in order to learn more about value investing. Chris’s newsletters and his personalized training can be of great help to beginners & matured investors.” – Ravi, Quality Manager from Leading US Semiconductor MNC
“Chris’s Exclusive 1:1 Mentorship has changed my life financially for the better. So far I have made over 20% in just 1 stock that I invested in. The profit that I got easily covered multiple times the fees I invested in the club. He is a passionate value investor and it is evident in the work that he put in for his members.” – Jess Liu, Executive Director, DBS Private Banking
“Chris Lee’s maturity beyond years coupled with service mindset drives his ideas to market. Re-Think Wealth is an open, accessible platform for anyone interested to learn and go live in the world of investing within a short period of time. Hard earned lessons from a wise peer mentor. Chris does not hold back to share.” – Liyana Sulaiman, CPO & Co-founder @ Pollen l Community Commerce Builder
“As part of my journey to learn about value investing, I came across Chris’s profile and joined his program to learn about options trading. Chris gave a step by step guidance and answered all my questions to give me the confidence to enter my first trade. His teaching of value investing and options trading is grounded with case studies and live teaching. I would recommend Chris and his VIM program for those looking for that edge.” – Russell N, Real Estate Fund Manager
“Great guy. Mature for his age and Good Insights. Would Recommend that People Subscribe to His Newsletter – useful!” – Kevin Lim, Associate Director – Portfolio, Strategy and Risk Group at Temasek Holdings
“I’ve been very impressed with Chris as someone who sets goals for himself and works hard to realize each of them. In particular, he’s impressed me with his knowledge of the finance world – particularly Value Investing and Options Selling – and I have found his Investing Newsletter to be Very Informative. He’s also a genuinely pleasant and gracious person – and very grounded – someone I enjoy talking with whenever the opportunity arises. I’m excited to see where life is going to take Chris – what opportunities will come his way – I believe his level of initiative is going to take him far.”- Tom Estad, Ex Academic Director, SUTD-SMU Dual Degree Programme at Singapore Management University