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Category: Research

  • Faucet to Finance

    Faucet to Finance

    The story of modern finance starts from a faucet. The Navier–Stokes equations is considered to be the first step to understand the elusive phenomenon of turbulence. The Clay Mathematics Institute in May 2000 made this problem one of its seven Millennium Prize problems in mathematics. There is a US$1,000,000 prize to the first person providing a solution for a…

  • Noise

    Noise

    Einstein famously said, “A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move towards higher levels”. We need to rethink Psychology if we have to give the world better tools for judgment. Because Psychology – the scientific study of mind and behavior – has stopped relating to Science. As hyperbolic as…

  • The S&P 500 Myth

    The S&P 500 Myth

    Abstract The nearly USD 50 trillion passive investment management industry has grown over the last 50 years primarily based on the claim that 9 out of 10 Asset managers can’t beat the market, net of fees over a 5-year rolling period. This claim assumes that the S&P 500 has a superior methodology that is unassailable.…

  • Web3 Alts

    Web3 Alts

    We are in an Alternative Assets revolution. Crypto might be the most popular of the Web3 liquid alternatives [Alts] but as disintermediation picks up momentum, the new internet will lead to wealth redistribution by first taking away market share from the legacy world and then generating new opportunities in form of data assets that will…

  • Mechanisms of Psychology

    Mechanisms of Psychology

    James Clerk Maxwell conjured a demon in 1867 to explain the unexplainable behavior of quantum systems.

  • The Conceptual Age

    The Conceptual Age

    If a month back you knew that Wheat is going to go to historical highs, Oil is going to skyrocket, War would break out and a few million people would leave their homes, you need not go further. Breaking news is not breaking, it’s after the fact and has a miserable record of timing the…

  • Thinking Currency

    Thinking Currency

    Because intelligent investing can’t happen in a world with extreme currency risk, the intelligence assisting in asset management would need to understand currency risk. Now with the world entering the digital currencies alternative asset boom, currency risk needs a rethink. At a certain level, a global currency has to be stable, lower in volatility and…

  • My Sandbox Journey

    My Sandbox Journey

    This is a story of finding a universality, transforming it into an indexing innovation, persisting with it, bringing it to Canada, and revolutionizing DIY Investing.

  • The Snowball Effect

    The Snowball Effect

    A draft of wind nudged a lucky snowflake to bond with another snowflake to make a chain. As it rolled down the mountain, the chain attracted more snowflakes, snowflake by snowflake, transforming into a snowball, a power to reckon, a momentous force, a phenomenon, that makes you wonder, was the snowflake lucky or did it…

  • 9/10 Fail Logic

    9/10 Fail Logic

    9 out of 10 asset managers don’t beat the market. This is driving the ‘Do It Yourself ‘(DIY) rush to passive. Below I explain how what should have been a 50% chance to beat the market became a poor hand for the asset managers and how the intelligent future is going to break the game.