'Invest & forget' does not work, long term should be a series of short terms: Samir Arora Share Synopsis even if one is able to spot 120 of the top 500 stocks, instead of the top 20, they can alone deliver huge alpha to investors, says Samir Arora of Helios Capital. ETMarkets.com Related Samir Arora of Helios Capital says such an approach simply doesn't work in reality. At a webinar arranged by PMS AIF World, Arora shot holes in some of such popular beliefs. He argued that one does not need 20 ‘concentrated’ stocks to beat the market. In his presentation, he offered 16-year data – from 2005 to 2020 – that 131 of the top 300 stocks from the NSE500 pack on an average outperformed the underlying index every year. The NSE500 index delivered a cumulative return of 703 per cent during this 16 years.