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
Behavioral Finance
Have you heard of Goodhart’s law?
There are many ways in which it has been expressed but this one below is perhaps the most succinct and clear."When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."Becau ....
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September 14, 2021 | 5 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
91 and Still Compounding
The legendary Warren Buffett turned 91 last week and thus this headline.No living person signifies the power of compounding better than Mr. Buffett though there are many lesser kno ....
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September 7, 2021 | 6 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
News ≠ Investment Strategy
I received many responses to my post “The Prasads of the 21st Century”. Thankfully all of them appreciated it and a few Prasads also took it sportingly. Today, I wanted to quic ....
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August 31, 2021 | 5 Minute Read
Behavioral Finance
The Prasads of the 21st Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Pe2B2uONwIf you have not clicked on/seen the above video yet, kindly do it now. The context of this post can be understood only ....
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August 24, 2021 | 6 Minute Read
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