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Commentary | Portfolio Yoga - Part 11

Category: Commentary

Fooling some of the people, all of the time 8

Fooling some of the people, all of the time

The single biggest reason you are given as to why you should invest in stock markets using a Mutual Fund and not via a Exchange Traded Fund or a Index Fund is proved by showcasing long term returns of few select funds that have over the last decade beaten the Index returns handily. In past posts I have reflected on...

Investing and Returns 0

Investing and Returns

A couple of days ago, writing in The Guardian, Tim Harford questioned and I quote “Is our reliance on automation dangerously diminishing our skills?” These days, we depend on Technology a lot and given our beliefs that a computer cannot go wrong, we accept the results without questioning the Math’s or the logic behind the answer. Regardless of whether we...

SIP, Expectations and Reality 0

SIP, Expectations and Reality

Indian’s have generally been Risk Averse and that is seen in the percentage of assets an average household has invested in markets (Direct or Indirect). Real Estate on the other hand has had huge amount of backing given the rally we saw in the last decade. But with Real Estate prices shooting for the moon and one which is affordable...

Predictions, Probability and Position Sizing 9

Predictions, Probability and Position Sizing

Most of us know that Astrology is bunkum and yet that doesn’t stop us from reading what the astrology section of the Sunday newspaper. Reading that does no harm, Right. After all, its more of just keeping ourselves aware or more of a time pass in nature. Prediction in markets happen regularly and here there are two types of prediction....

Fire your Financial Advisor? 1

Fire your Financial Advisor?

In today’s Mint, Monika Halan has a post titled “When to fire your financial adviser“. While I am sure she knows way better than me when it comes to advisers, I felt that she had used a large brush without providing contexts when its right and when its wrong. So, here I go as usual with my thoughts; MH: An adviser...

Where is your Edge 7

Where is your Edge

A friend of mine has a shop selling something which in theory has no moat whatsoever. If you wish, you could easily put up something right next to him and start doing business. Margins are good which means that there is pretty high attraction to getting into his business. Where there were just 2 a few years ago, I now...

The Framing Effect 0

The Framing Effect

Framing Bias is a congnitive bias. From Wikipedia; “The framing effect is an example of cognitive bias, in which people react to a particular choice in different ways depending on how it is presented; e.g. as a loss or as a gain. People tend to avoid risk when a positive frame is presented but seek risks when a negative frame is...