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Multibaggers, mirages and market mathAn experiment demonstrates how survivorship bias can create the illusion of market genius. By selectively sharing successful predictions an...- 8 mental traps that block success: Ankur Warikoo guides how to break psychological barriersEntrepreneur and author Ankur Warikoo shared a detailed post on LinkedIn explaining how the mind often restricts growth through self-limiti...
- Asset management company founder shares Amitabh Bachchan song for investors who believe in 'Buy blue chips and forget'Devina Mehra of First Global states that 'Buy blue chips and forget' is not a valid strategy. The definition of blue chip stocks changes ov...
- Are you investing or gambling? How you can avoid losing money to risky investment choicesMany high-risk, high-return options, such as F&O and cryptocurrencies, act as a magnet for people to take risky investment decisions. There...
- Warning signs for investors: These cognitive biases may lead to gamblingCertain cognitive biases and personality traits at different stages of investing can turn investing into a gamble. Read on to know the red ...
- The WWII Bomber Puzzle: A powerful lesson for modern investorsAbraham Wald's wartime analysis reveals the dangers of survivorship bias in investing, prompting the need to examine failures to identify t...
- ET Career Talks: Experts on the evolving MBA—shifting from prestige to purpose and practicality, a reality checkIn the latest episode of ET Careet Talks, powered by Sapthagiri NPS University, Dr Somdutta Singh, Founder of Assiduus Global, and Kunal Sa...
- Why following successful investors may set you up for failure - Part 2The most successful outliers on Dalal Street or for that matter, Wall Street over any given short-term period almost always took some extre...
- Market stampede turns favorite defensive trades into danger zoneInvestors may not be fully protected by the rush for defensive assets, experts have warned. The consequent surge in prices for tech stocks ...
- What today's businesses can learn from the Infosys legendsToday, we’ve created a business and investment environment where companies that have never made a profit and appear to be incapable of doin...
- Things that should remind us of dangers of reckless privatisationThese memories include global bank bailouts — from the 1990 saving and loan crisis of 1990, the 2007-10 Great Financial Crisis and subseque...
- Seshadri Sen on three sectors to help build & rejig portfolios in this market“If we look at a 10–15-year chart of policy rates, we are going nowhere into the upper quartile of that range, we will be somewhere stuck i...
- Three reasons why China’s tech prowess is overhypedHardly any day passes by without reports reminding us that China is well on its path to creating a self-reliant technology industry. While ...
- Want to remove human biases in your investment? Try quant fundsThe biggest benefit they provide investors is that they are based on a framework of discipline.
- View: Why you’re not one of the world’s great investorsThere is an unhealthy tendency to look at the most successful investors with envy.
- Why average return from investments is what you should expect and be happy withWe look down upon the average as it connotes something ordinary or less than desirable in our minds. The lure of beating the average is har...
- Successful equity investing requires hard work, analysis, market understanding, not 'tips'Successful equity investing is not about doing nothing. You have to educate yourself about businesses, analyse how the markets work and res...
- Why buying a home scores over investing in stocksMany people claim that investing in stocks is better than investing in a house. But owning a house gives unmatched benefits.
- Have you heard of ‘Smart Beta’? If not, here’s what you should knowThe active managers have long been using various approaches to generate alpha, which is the active return over the benchmark return.
- Passive investing may not be bad but experts favour combination of active and passive fundsStudies have proven that no fund manager would be able to beat the benchmark every year for long period. Why waste the fee was the argument...
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