Personal Finance

“Winning the Loser’s Game” by Charles Ellis takes a balanced, realistic view of the risks and rewards of investing. It is useful for individual investors who get swayed by short-term market moves...

Porter’s five forces framework gave me the perspective to analyze any business's competitive intensity and profitability trends in my initial years. I preferred companies that build sustainable competitive advantages (entry barriers) to...

As per Aswath Damodaran (New York University Stern, Professor, and author of many books), there is a difference between valuation and pricing. But most investors tend to use pricing as a shortcut...

In this book, John Coates, senior research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge and ex-trader in derivative, narrates lessons from a new field, the biology of risk. He...

This is about the book I read this year “The Little Book of Behavioural Investing”. I found this book interesting as this book helps me recognize some of the behavioral weaknesses and...

I remember vividly that in my very first introduction to economics, classical economics holds the key to explain all behaviours/actions of humans. It portrays a world where people act rationally and make...

The term “EMI” is quite a familiar one these days and is not limited to just home loans or personal loans. Even credit cards offer customers schemes wherein the payments can be...

Savings have always been synonymous with bank account savings or fixed deposits, wherein the rate of interest was the attraction. However, of late, bank deposits are not an appealing option; equities have...

This masterpiece by Nassim Taleb has made me introspect my decision-making process and it covers several critical behavioral aspects that bring biases in decisions. Every decision - howsoever big/...

As investors, we not just look at short-term gains to meet our immediate goals, but also look at building a corpus to meet long-term goals. One of the simplest and convenient ways...