Behavioral Finance
Ubbe, Niranjan and Risk
In 2021, I watched a couple of seasons of “Vikings” on Netflix. There is a character called “Ubbe” in the show and there is an amazing sequence involving Ubbe and 3 kings.T ....
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November 23, 2021 | 6 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
The Patterns that don’t work
Recently, I had a conversation with a senior executive from an asset management firm. He was explaining all the reasons why his firm’s funds had not performed for the last 2-3 ye ....
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November 9, 2021 | 5 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
Decision and Outcome
On Sunday, I met a gentleman called Aakash at a social gathering and he showed me a message his nephew (22 years old) had sent him. It read “Uncle, invest in X. It will go up 5 t ....
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November 2, 2021 | 5 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
Your Environment and Content Diet
In the book Nudge – The Final Edition, Authors Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein give a very powerful example when explaining the Availability Bias.***A quick quiz: In the United ....
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October 26, 2021 | 6 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
The New Line to Memorize
While the Robinhood of the 21st Century (Last Week’s Nano) is doing its job of turning people into traders (while believing they are investing), how could the Banks in the US be ....
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October 19, 2021 | 5 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
The 200X Fund
I generally do not write about specific funds but the insightful lesson and thoughts for investors in this particular fund surely makes for an interesting read. I hope you enjoy th ....
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October 12, 2021 | 6 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
The Challenge
Many of you loved my “91 and still compounding” post.In case you cannot recollect it, click the above link, and read the post. It’s a simple yet powerful post. This one build ....
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October 5, 2021 | 6 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
The Victory Dance
The headline of a prominent Indian financial daily (25th September) read “SENSEX-AGENARIAN- Rocking at 60,000”. 2 micro headlines in that same post were “Sensex Valuation Low ....
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September 28, 2021 | 6 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
Evergrande
I think by the time you read this post; you would have heard this word “Evergrande”. If you have not that is absolutely fine too. You have not missed much. I will get to that w ....
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September 21, 2021 | 6 Minute Read
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