Concentrated bets (8-15 stocks) are not everybodyโs cup of tea. A very few people can handled it well to their advantage.
So far I have been doing a concentrated bets (right now I hold stocks of 12 companies) and luckily successfully.
When it is favourable, it is highly rewarding, otherwise, it is bit challenging.
Understand the concept before venturing into concentrated investing.
Portfolio should have a mix of all themes in my opinion , few tilted to growth , value and optionality , allocation should be tilted to market dynamics and margin of safety and where the opp size is very large
Getting too aggressive trying to be an extreme value/growth investor , unnecessarily putting yourself into buckets does not help in my opinion , have to find the best of both worlds tilted towards margin of safety and incremental growth and focus on management integrity and quality
People who only tilt to high growth may be stuck in sectors at the end of the cycle , and people who are too value oreiented might be too early to themes that even if stock does well, time based returns are not very impressive
Play as the pitch demands and opportunities present itself not according to biases or buckets