The Enoughness of Life

Many of you loved the Enoughness of Money post. In case you haven’t checked it out yet, kindly do so. You will enjoy it. Now let me ask you a slightly different question in the c ....
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The Intellectual Poison

Like every year, 2023 will also be a year where we will witness a lot of intellectual poison.In the investing world, they come in the form of forecasts, research reports, articles, ....
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The Five Money Secrets

Can you guess what the 5 secrets are?Hint: These have nothing to do with selection of products/markets/assets, or timing (getting in and out).Joe John Duran, CFA in his book “The ....
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The Buffett Gandhi Syndrome

Before you read any further, let me tell you that there is no such syndrome.I made it up based on my observations of investors (professional, institutional, others) and lessons fro ....
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The Same Conclusion

I received some wonderful responses to the post RIP Forecasting. If you haven’t read it yet, I urge you to read it now. While that post and this Nano are independent, they essent ....
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The Games We Play

Finding the perfect investment is everybody’s favourite game in investing.Can you guess the next two? These games ar ....
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The Definition of Brilliant

Many of you would have read the FTX Trilogy that I had written in November. I promise there is no more of that. We already have had enough of it.But I couldn’t help but share thi ....
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The 2 Types of Choices

Investors always have a choice.We can choose to focus on the latest prediction or the hottest investment or the next crisis about to hit our world and mind you, there will always b ....
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The Key to Investor Success

James Clear wrote, “Power is influence over external events. Peace is influence over internal events.”Powerful lines.The key to success in investing lies in our influence over ....
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The Recency Bias

One thing we humans specialize in is to take the recent past and project indefinitely into the future. Turns out, this phenomenon has a name. It’s called the Recency Bias – and ....
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About Amar Pandit

Amar is a CFA Charterholder from CFA Institute, Virginia, USA and a Certified Financial Planner. He is also an alumnus of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Amar Pandit is the Founder of several companies that are making a Happy difference in the lives of people. His first one was “My Financial Advisor”, the happiest and best Private Wealth Management Firm that helps High Net worth Business Owners, Corporate Executives, Doctors and Celebrities to make smart and informed choices about money. He is currently the Founder of Happyness Factory, a world-class online investment & goal-based financial planning platform through which he aims to help every Indian family save and invest wisely. He is very passionate about spreading financial literacy and does so through his sharp and analytical columns published regularly in leading financial dailies, publications and portals. He is the author of 6 bestselling books, 8 Sketch Books and 2000 + columns for various newspapers such as Economic Times, Business Standard, Times of India, DNA, Hindustan Times, Mint, Indian Express and magazines. He has developed a board game “Financial Premier League" which is a fusion of cricket and personal finance. Besides this, he has developed Corporate Workshops on Financial Literacy and has developed the first financial literacy program for children between the age group of 5 and 12.

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Amar's Philosophy

It’s a myth that More Money = Happiness.
Yes, we have all heard that it is better to cry in a BMW than cry on the road. However, what matters at that point is that you are crying and unhappy. Your location is not relevant, you are just like the other person crying on the road. The point is that if “More Money = Happiness” were indeed true, the richest people would also be the happiest; the most seemingly beautiful and rich people would not be depressed.

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