Strategy, Behaviour & Global Capital
Aim to be understood, not to look smart
Reducing a five-billion-dollar firm to five words, and learning, slowly, that the short answer was the true one all along.
What to take credit for
In a good and bad year, deciding what belongs to you and what belongs to the market, according to Hemingway.
The discipline of not knowing
Nobody can name the companies that will make the next decade. This note is about what to do with that fact.
The feeling is a forecast
What ‘gut feel’ actually is, according to the latest neuroscience.
The most underpriced asset is patience
Why patience is the most underpriced asset in markets, according to Bessembinder.
How Conviction Travels
What actually holds a client through a drawdown, according to every previous cycle.
What Holds When Markets Don’t
What holds under pressure, according to a room of family offices in Changsha, China.
Expectation is the new volatility
What AI has actually changed in markets: not the analysis, the reaction function.
Regret as an Asset Class
A note on regret as an implicit asset class, according to a venture panel in gym shorts.
What is real risk tolerance?
Every family office has two risk tolerances. A note on the one that decides.
A reluctant contrarian
A note on the gap between what's happening and what people think is happening, according to a living room in Pune.
A quiet revolution
A note on the shift markets are missing in India, according to the mothers of daughters.