GYC Insights
Articles on real-life financial issues written to educate and enlighten.
If You Think Investment is a Game, Stop.
If you were to buy a company, would you hold onto it for only 2 or 3 days? Speculation is not investing and has destroyed many more fortunes than it has created. The shares of Gamestop that have shot up so quickly will eventually find their equilibrium and come back down to earth.
The Financial Cost of Following Wrong Advice
What would happen if you followed the advice of well known investors, hedge fund managers and strategists - supposed experts in their field. Are they really able to beat the market?
Evidence Based Investing Insights: Behavior
Investor behaviour can have the biggest impact on portfolio returns. It is important to stick to your investment plan and not be distracted by emotions.
Why our instincts make us poor investors
The human behavioural instincts that serve us well in most areas can be our downfall when it comes to investing. What methods can we use to stay the course even when our instincts tell us otherwise?
Recency Illusion
Arnold Zwicky defined the Recency Illusion as ”the belief that things you have noticed only recently are in fact recent”. How does this illusion affect your investing decisions?
Attraction to Rising Prices
Don’t we all love a good discount? Yet when there is a huge discount in stocks, people run away! Why is this so?
Chasing Hot Themes
How many times do we have a certain mandate, only to switch to something else when we hear of a good idea from a magazine, a friend or the news?
Causal Connections
Understanding potential flaws in your thinking will make you more aware of how these may affect your investing behaviour.
Negativity Dominance
Our brain’s threat centre always gives priority to bad news. Why is this so? And how does this relate to risk aversion in investing?