Investments

While investing in stocks, bonds and mutual funds, past performance becomes a strong input in making investment decisions. Question, should keep on relying on it excessively or there are other indicators available to investors, on which they can rely on to make investment decisions. Table of Contents: While looking at past performance look at the […]

Personality and rationality: : Human behavior is a complicated concoction of three elements: the Id, the Ego and the Superego as per the psychoanalytical theory propounded by Sigmund Freud. The id is present in a person from his or her birth and is a set of primitive behavioral traits. Ego, is that element in a […]

Investing your money and dealing with the associated risks is a great challenge that every investor must accept in order to reap higher returns. Market investments are subject to risk (though the intensity differs from product to product). Business supplements and magazines generally print the stories of hapless investors who either lost their money in […]

There was some debate going on in a television about why many Indian movies fail. The most common reason mentioned was taking multiple pictures following a same theme of a recently winning movie. Our human mind easily gets attracted to the information that gets popular among the crowd. The same happens with the way we […]

One of my clients got a call from her mother when we were seriously building her portfolio. I enquired after seeing her panicky reaction. Her mother wanted my client’s son to be removed from a school immediately because there is an accident happened in the swimming pool. The student died during a swimming session. How […]

The investor and his mind Sigmund Freud made a name for himself by interpreting dreams through the use of his knowledge of psychoanalysis. He succeeded in deciphering the various quirks inside the human brain which influenced their behavior. Had Freud tried to interpret the dreams of investors, perhaps a new dimension could have been added […]