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Financial Behavior Investment

Greed/Fear and The Urge to Time the Market

The two most dominant drivers in the market of investments are the generally inseparable emotions of Greed and Fear. Despite best efforts, it is difficult to prevent these emotions from influencing our decision making. Greed and Fear propel every investors urge to time the market. But  like all other emotions, it would be difficult to […]

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Retirement

Life Insurance : Are You Under/Over Insured

To be insured is an important and vital requirement to manage financial risks. And therefore, all of us might be insured to some extent in some or the other way. It is essential to be able to measure the amount of our insurance needs, so that we can be correctly insured. Categories of Plans It […]

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Debt Equity

Look Before You Leap- Are You measuring Risk before Investing ?

While discussing financial issues we tend to use the two terms, Risk & Return mostly together. This is because we need to base all financial decisions on balancing Risk and Return. While we understand and measure return easily, we tend to presume the understanding of Risk without making much effort towards measuring it. Further we […]