It is not easy to be an investor in the markets. The markets manipulate the mind, constantly. The servant becomes the master. This is the story of how an investor falls. Take a look at the image below. This is an investors' mutual fund …
Investor and Irony
The irony of our behaviour as investors is that investing should help us prosper yet our actions leads to the opposite. We suffer because what we believe, what we say and what we do are out of sync. There is a big gap. Let me show you how. Here …
Don’t do these 12 things in the current markets
Don't extrapolate last 18 months returns to the next 18 months. Don't have your entire portfolio in equity. Diversify and be conservative.Don't rush into mid and small caps. They give you the worst kind of rides.Don't exit all your investments out of …
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On Money, Investing and Behaviour
It is NOT easy to control our temperament. It is not easy because the number of things happening around us affect us. The information that comes our way through popular media, confuses us. And we, more often than not, give in to …
How to fail at investing?
For long, I thought that asset allocation combined with the right investment instruments can lead you to success in investing. There is no dearth of research to prove that asset allocation itself accounts for more than 90% of the returns of a …
