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Explained: The Concept of Risk Aversion

A very important aspect of the investor’s psychology is the concept of risk aversion. That is the desire to avoid or minimize risk in investments. Not all individuals will be prepared to take the same degree of overall risk of all their investments put together. All investors do not carry the same degree of risk… Continue reading Explained: The Concept of Risk Aversion

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People Fear Risks More than they Want High Returns

Explained Finance and Economics Education for the Life Insurance Sales and Marketing Persons Knowledge is Power Learn Concepts that Are Today’s Market Language People Fear Risks More than they Want High Returns, This is a fundamental truth of investment behavior. Let us understand this concept. Risk categories of investors and investment options Investors can be… Continue reading People Fear Risks More than they Want High Returns

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The Cat is Out of the Bag

The calendar year 2018 was particularly bad for equity markets. While various analysts are giving different figures of the gains or losses in the equity markets, the main point is that those who invested either directly in shares or through equity mutual funds lost money. Morningstar reports (https://www.morningstar.in/posts/50281/mutual-funds.aspx Date 2 Jan 2018)  the following  gains/losses… Continue reading The Cat is Out of the Bag

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Data From S & P: Under-performing Mutual Funds

Standard & Poor (standardandpoors.com) publishes on the website https://us.spindices.com/spiva/#/reports the performance of mutual funds in comparison with the S & P Index. This is called Spiva (Standard and Poor Index vs. Active Funds). They do this for many countries around the world. For India, as on 30 June 2018, this what their analysis says: Large Cap… Continue reading Data From S & P: Under-performing Mutual Funds