Ankur Choudhary December 12, 2018 Which is better - monthly SIP or weekly SIP? Since SIPs lead to cost averaging of your investments, sometimes we get the question that will weekly SIPs lead to better results? Recently I came across a blog post on Advisorkhoj that addresses the same question with some historical data analysis. The author tests the following three scenarios: Monthly SIP
Ankur Choudhary February 14, 2018 Good investor, bad investor Imagine you are sitting at a poker table playing Texas Hold'em heads-up (i.e. one on one). You get dealt two aces. You go all-in. Your opponent calls. He has two kings. The dealer lays out the 5 community cards and there is a king in it. Your opponent makes
Ankur Choudhary January 12, 2018 3 things you can do to get higher returns but you won't Indian markets have given 1000% returns in the last 15 years but not many people around you would have made even that much, forget beating the market. Why? Because of bad investor behaviour. Your returns depend more on your behaviour than on the Mutual Funds or stocks that you invest
Ankur Choudhary December 11, 2017 The fault in our stars - the problem with Mutual Fund star ratings and why you shouldn't use them There are several popular websites like Value Research Online and Moneycontrol that provide historical and comparative data on Mutual Funds. One aspect that has become especially popular is the star ratings of Mutual Funds on these websites. The ratings on VRO are their own, while the one on Moneycontrol are
Ankur Choudhary November 08, 2017 News and investing - Stop zugzwang-ing yourself I learnt a very interesting word today - Zugzwang. It is German for "compulsion to move". It is usually used to denote an unfavourable situation in games like Chess where for the game to go on, you have to make a move on your turn, even if it