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Dalal Street Rules

Date17 Sep 2019

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CategoriesBehavioral Finance, Factors, Systems Investing

Prologue – Circa 2008 I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interest of organisations, specifically banks and others, was such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders. Alan Greenspan, Oct 2008, Congressional Hearing Post the Great Financial Crisis...

Ben Graham was a Quant or Systematic Rule Based Investing

Date12 Sep 2019

Posted ByAnish Teli

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CategoriesBehavioral Finance, Factors, Systems Investing

What is Quantitative Investing ? Quantitative investing attempts to reduce the investment process to its scientific and statistical core, eliminating emotional, human judgment from the equation as much as possible. This quantitative investment process is also known as systems based investing or...

Investing in Equities: Lottery Effect

Date26 Jul 2019

Posted ByAnish Teli

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CategoriesBehavioral Finance

Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had emotions Professor Richard Feynman So why do investors buy (especially retail investors) high beta names especially with negative news around them? This is because of a phenomenon called the Lottery Effect. For...

Behavior Gap

Date23 Jan 2017

Posted ByAnish Teli

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CategoriesBehavioral Finance

Today we are going to talk about an important concept called “Behavior Gap” and why it is so important for all investors to be aware of this. I really wish I had known this early in my career. Whenever I refer to...

Greed and Fear – Disposition Effect

Date20 Jan 2017

Posted ByAnish Teli

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CategoriesBehavioral Finance

It turns out that there are specific names for the behavioural patterns that I have described in my earlier blog which you can read here. Over the next four blogs I am going to break down greed and fear into four specific behavior...

Greed and Fear – Making of a Bubble

Date19 Jan 2017

Posted ByAnish Teli

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CategoriesBehavioral Finance

The two most basic instincts of humans from the days of Adam and Eve. Adam was greedy and got tempted by the apple. And then fearful because he knew he would have to pay for his greed. These are our primal emotions....

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