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I remember the precise moment I had my first doubts about books on management success.
In one of my earliest jobs, as a fresh management consulting associate, we used to get assigned books at random by the partners we reported to. Predictably, these were from management lessons and Business Strategy genres. Saturday mornings were set aside...

A recent tweet citing Mint analysis talks about how the probability of higher returns increases with increasing investment horizon.
The numbers looked a bit off, so I recreated the analysis using the Nifty 50 Total Returns Index.
The numbers in each of the cells are higher than what is shown in the analysis cited in the Mint article. For instance, the probability of returns exceeding 8% over a 10-year holding period goes up from 76% to 97%, a sizable difference. Similarly, the...

They hold the same constituents except in different weights.
The Nifty 50 is your traditional market cap-weighted index where each stock is allocated a weight in proportion of its free-float market cap. So HDFC Bank, after its merger with HDFC Ltd accounts for almost 14%, Reliance Industries nearly 10% and so...

This post, first published on capitalmind.in, wasn’t meant to be a post, but just a few things I scribbled for myself as things about money I’d tell my younger self. The list grew, and so here it is.
The ten money messages I’d want my younger self to absorb:...