If you adhere to basic investment advice that every experienced or even novice investor doles out, you would know that it is prudent no to put all your eggs in one basket. Eggs here refer to your investment and the basket is the financial instrument. The diversification of assets across varied instruments is referred to [...]
In modern times, women are financially independent and increasingly earning more income. Improved life expectancy, early retirement, break in the career to pursue personal goals; all contribute to the need of having a systematic financial plan. But, women tend to be more conservative in their approach towards financial well-being. Lack of confidence, financial illiteracy, [...]
Savings and investments are a must for everyone. As inflation leads to price rise of essential commodities, your balance should also be in line with the increased expenses to maintain headroom for making financial provisions. Therefore, savings are not enough and investments have become necessary. With investing you have the option to either be an [...]
Over the course of time we have written several behavioral finance articles to share our knowledge with investors looking to create long term wealth. One can apply our Thinking Man advice from those articles with respect to the recent BSE Sensex crash. The sharp decline in the stock market has made everyone very tensed [...]
It is a behavioral finance concept which describes how our environment can shape our perceptions.Let’s go back to 2008-09, wherein many people lost their jobs, economy was under stress and house prices were depreciating from their peak. Consider an example wherein, Mr Dumb who is unemployed due to slowdown in the economy. This person is less [...]
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. [...]
