Behavioral Finance
The Lessons
Last week, the news cycle was all about Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).Within a week now, the spotlight has been taken over by Credit Suisse. And this is an institution that has been ma ....Read More
March 21, 2023 | 7 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
The Black Swan Season
Source: DALL-E /Open AI It’s raining Black Swans.They are everywhere.By now, I don’t think I need to explain what a Black Swan event even m ....Read More
March 14, 2023 | 5 Minute Read
Personal Finance
Be Less Wrong
An executive (Vishal – name changed) of a portfolio manager recently sent me the following WhatsApp message. Additionally, he made a remark that I reproduce here – “Th ....Read More
March 7, 2023 | 7 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
The Worst 20 Days
Missing the Best 20 days is one of the most favourite charts in the asset management space. I am sure you would have come across this at some point of time whether in a presentatio ....Read More
January 10, 2023 | 5 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
The Worst Market Timer
This is a slight deviation from many of my previous posts. In that sense, this post will have many numbers in it. But I will try to make it interesting without you really getting d ....Read More
December 13, 2022 | 5 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
What’s the Real Problem?
I had written one of the ideas of this post in a previous Nano, but it is so powerful and in sync with the thoughts I wanted to write on this week, I thought of covering it again. ....Read More
September 27, 2022 | 5 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
The Missing Diagnosis
Let me make a bold yet true statement. The majority of investor portfolios today are a complete hodge-podge of products (as depicted in the first part of the sketch) ....Read More
September 20, 2022 | 4 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
The Irrelevant Absolute and Relative
A few days ago, one of our partners received an email from her client Ashish. The email in question was a second opinion on his portfolio given by India’s biggest wealth manageme ....Read More
August 30, 2022 | 5 Minute Read
Nano Learning
Gold, God and Code
How times change quickly across generations?In the context of money, first it was “In Gold We Trust.”Then it was (rather is), “In God We Trust.” N ....Read More
August 12, 2022 | 2 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
This is Risk
We are good at managing risk by preparing ourselves to handle an event or situation we have already seen or experienced. For example, we are now prepared for the next set of pa ....Read More
August 2, 2022 | 5 Minute Read