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"What if the market falls?"

Why do we always have this perennial fear?

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Let us understand why with the help of a coin toss example

Heads - You win Rs. 10,000
Tails - You lose Rs. 10,000

Would you take this bet?

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Most of us would NOT!

Why?

Because, the psychological impact of losing Rs. 10,000 is much stronger than the benefit of winning Rs. 10,000.

This tendency is referred to as ‘loss aversion’.

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There are essentially three key ingredients for building wealth - Savings rate, Time & Returns

Out of these, most of us spend the maximum time & effort on improving the third ingredient – RETURNS

But, there is however a small underrated problem here..

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The returns are NOT completely under our control!

Look at the equity returns in the past four decades…

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Let us check the debt returns for the past four decades…

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