If a value investor were allowed to study exactly one governance disclosure in an Indian annual report, the smart choice would not be the audit report, not the board composition table, and not even the related-party schedule. It would be
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If you have ever opened your portfolio after a bad market day and felt the loss with a sharper, longer, more visceral pain than the equivalent gain on a good day, you have lived inside the most foundational cognitive bias
When the National Stock Exchange of India crossed the eleven-crore registered investor mark in early 2026 — having scaled from roughly three crore in 2020 — a sobering reality became impossible to ignore. The vast majority of these new entrants
When Charles T. Akre Jr. — the soft-spoken Virginia investor who turned a small boutique into a multibillion-dollar compounding machine — was asked at a 2011 Google Talk how he picked stocks that returned 20%+ for decades, he reached not
Some of the greatest fortunes in American corporate history were not built by the most charismatic operators, the loudest brand-builders, or the most aggressive empire-acquirers. They were built by quiet, almost reclusive chief executives who understood one thing that nobody
“In 1983, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman published a six-page paper in Psychological Review with one of the most counter-intuitive results in cognitive psychology: when given a detailed description of a fictional woman named Linda, 85% of educated participants —
India now has over 11 crore unique investors registered with NSE as of 2025 — up from barely 3 crore at the start of the decade. The 2024 SEBI study on the equity Futures & Options segment found that 93%
Most Indian retail investors look at a quarterly result, see a margin dip or a flat top-line, and immediately ask the wrong question: “Has the business broken?” The right question — the one Tom Russo has been asking for forty
In April 2002, Stanford social psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues Daniel Lin and Lee Ross published a paper in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin with a deceptively simple title: “The Bias Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Self
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Warren Buffett does not actually invest. He filters. The investment is what remains after four filters have eliminated everything that does not belong. He has said this so often, in so many letters and at so many annual meetings, that
For more than a decade, behavioural economists have documented a peculiar — and counter-intuitive — pattern in how human beings handle financial pain. When markets rise, investors check their portfolios obsessively. When markets fall, they stop checking altogether. This is
India’s retail investor base has gone from roughly 3 crore unique PAN holders at NSE in March 2019 to over 11 crore in 2025 — a near four-fold expansion in six years. Yet SEBI’s own landmark 2024 study on individual
Seth Klarman is the most successful value investor most Indian retail investors have never heard of. His 1991 book Margin of Safety is out of print, second-hand copies routinely trade for thirty thousand rupees on eBay, and his Baupost Group