Hold on to that thought for a while.The Deloitte Global Millennial Survey 2020 highlighted some interesting views on the financial status of millennials. Globally, millennials before the pandemic said they were saving or investing almost 40% of their disposable incomes. 3 in 4 millennials say they actively manage and budget their monthly income to [...]
If we don’t Challenge the way Things have always been we’ll never discover the greatest breakthroughs of our future Status Quo bias simply means doing nothing i.e. avoiding active decision and the let things happen as they always have been without taking any efforts to change it, this is mainly because of the fear [...]
Framing effect is a behavioral concept in which people react differently to two identical proposals depending on how they are presented. The framing effect is a bias, in which people’s decision for two identical options differs depending on whether it is presented as a loss or as a gain; People tend to avoid risk when a positive [...]
“Naïve” means “inexperienced” in particular tasks assigned, even while taking important decisions of investments. There are instances in pasts wherein, investors use ‘naïve’ rules of thumb for portfolio construction due to lack of better information. One such rule is known as the ‘1/n’ approach, where investors allocate equally to the range of available asset [...]
Recency Bias is pretty simple. Just think it this way “your short term memory dominates your long term memory” Usually it is the tendency that what happened in recent past will continue in the future. Consider an example of flipping a coin. We all know that the probability of any of the two possible outcomes [...]
At its core, behavioral finance attempts to understand biases in human behavior when it comes to personal finance. It combines social and psychological theory with financial theory as a means of understanding how price movements in the securities markets arises independent of any corporate actions (changes in the intrinsic value of the stock). One of [...]
These days, Sensex is at new high and investors are still bullish on pharma and FMCG sectors. Just because in last 5 years these two sectors performed well does not mean they will continue to do well in future too.Such thinking is absurd. Most investors fall victim to this behaviour of analysing past outcomes while taking future investment decisions. [...]
