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Why diversification and discipline matter more than market timingMarkets have shown that conviction can be quickly humbled, with equities, gold, and debt all experiencing volatility. A binary approach to ...
African Proverb of the Day: “A man will never heed the voice of a woman until… — Life lessons on listening, awareness, regret, ignorance and why experience is the best teacherAfrican Proverb of the Day highlights the meaning of “A man will never heed the voice of a woman until it is too late.” The saying reflects...
Volatility as opportunity, depends on framework of mind: 5 mid-caps from different sectors with upside potential of up to 31%The Indian stock market is no longer correcting only because of sentiment. It is now adjusting to the possibility of weaker numbers in the ...
Why do smart investors still lose money? Bernard Baruch’s guide to investing disciplineEven seasoned investors lose money due to behavioural biases, poor timing, and overreaction to market noise. Drawing on Bernard Baruch’s pr...
Curbing release of Fed meeting transcripts may improve debate, Warsh says in bookThe release of transcripts of Federal Reserve rate-setting meetings, a cornerstone of its transparency for more than 30 years, undermines t...
5 behavioral biases to avoid while investing: Here's how they are negatively impacting your investmentsMarket volatility often triggers emotional biases, leading to flawed investment decisions. Investors tend to make mistakes like panic selli...
Nifty at record high: How to navigate challenges in a surging bull marketWhile it’s a common tendency to view downcycles as emotionally draining experience, the same emotional complexity often gets oversimplified...
Gautam Baid on rules for smallcaps in bear market and how to get multibagger returns from commodity stocks“Maintaining a journal helps you maintain your humanity and calm during periods of market turbulence. Most importantly, it also helps you a...
Decoding market corrections: A deeper look at time and price factorsSustained negative returns over two consecutive years are very rare. Furthermore, investors must also be prepared for time corrections, whe...
Is your brain losing you money? 8 questions to understand if you have investment biases, how to avoid themFind out how to avoid the biases that are affecting your investing decisions and resulting in financial losses for you.
How behavioral science can help make you a better investor?It also helps them recognise a bad decision, which can pave the way to make suitable amends. In the stock markets, humility helps one recov...
How fear of future regrets shapes your decisions & how to minimise itRegret comes with a companion: Hindsight Bias. When we evaluate our decisions, we choose to compare the option we chose with the alternativ...
Economic Survey points out the original sin that caused India's banking crisisSevere under-capitalisation of Indian banks was the inevitable outcome of prolonged forbearance. This triggered a distortion in bank's pote...
When outcome-based biases hit decision making in investingAs investors, we must avoid the mistake of getting anchored to the outcome, while evaluating the decision.
Think you are managing your finances very well? Think againWe are unlikely to find faults with our monetary decisions. The perils of overconfidence are so widely prevalent that we are most likely to...
Your biases can ruin your equities investment and how!The disposition effect is the tendency of investors to sell winning stocks prematurely, despite the potential of these gains becoming much ...
Investors should learn to cope with uncertainty instead of trying to predict the futureThe biggest limitation that hindsight bias brings about is the false sense of control and easy interpretation of outcome.
8 biases that may lead to bad investment decisionsIrrational behaviour is common among investors, but all is not lost. ET Wealth tells you how to get over harmful tendencies.
- Managing Blind Spots
We all have blind spots, and they are weaknesses we should combat...But how do managers work actively to fight weaknesses of which, by defi...
- Bearish on Adani power: Prakash Diwan
Adani Power is paying the price, the company is paying the price for rejigging on some of its power purchase agreements, says Prakash Diwan.