Behavioral Finance

May 23, 2026
Infographic: Employee Cost-to-Revenue Ratio by fiscal year, rising from FY20 (14) to FY25 (22); FY25 bar is green.

Employee Cost-to-Revenue Ratio: How a Single P&L Line Reveals Operating Leverage, Wage Discipline & Hidden Margin Risk

The Employee Benefit Expense line is the cleanest fixed-cost intensity metric on any Indian P&L. Here is how to read it, benchmark it, and use it — illustrated with Titan Biotech FY25's audited markers.
May 22, 2026
Horizontal bar chart of yearly values from FY20 to FY25: FY20 28, FY21 26, FY22 22, FY23 18, FY24 14, FY25 11; final bar is green.

Choice Overload & The Paradox of Choice: Iyengar & Lepper’s 2000 Jam Study and Sethi-Iyengar-Huberman-Jiang 2004 401(k) Evidence

Iyengar & Lepper’s 2000 jam study and Sethi-Iyengar’s 2004 401(k) evidence show that wider option sets paralyse decision-makers. With ~1,500 MF schemes and 5,000+ listed stocks, Indian retail investors face an extreme choice-overload landscape. A four-step counter-measure checklist, and an educational case study on how Titan Biotech (BSE: 524717) FY25’s focused specialty-biotech portfolio reads as anti-choice-overload corporate behaviour.
May 22, 2026
Blue gradient hero with the title 'CEO-to-Median-Employee Pay Ratio' and a horizontal green milestone timeline from FY21 to FY25: Compliance, Disclosure, Audit clean, Board change, All boxes. Manish Goel Portfolio Management Service branding above.

CEO-to-Median-Employee Pay Ratio: Companies Act §197(12) Read With Rule 5(1)(i)

The CEO-to-Median-Employee Pay Ratio mandated by Companies Act Section 197(12) read with Rule 5(1)(i) is one of the highest signal-to-noise governance disclosures in any Indian annual report. This educational piece decodes the metric, shows how to read its three-to-five-year arc, and illustrates the disciplined Pattern-A signature using Titan Biotech (BSE: 524717) FY25 audited markers — purely as a teaching case, not as a buy/sell view.
May 21, 2026
Infographic: Negativity Bias with four quadrants—Lucky (gray), DISCIPLINED INVESTOR (green), Confused (light gray), BIAS-TRAPPED (orange) on a dark blue background.

Negativity Bias: Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer & Vohs (2001) ‘Bad Is Stronger Than Good’

Roy Baumeister and colleagues showed in 2001 that bad events register roughly three times more strongly than good ones in the human mind. For Indian retail investors, this asymmetry explains panic selling, F&O double-downs, SIP discontinuations during drawdowns and the weight of a single negative headline. Includes Titan Biotech Ltd (BSE: 524717) FY25 audited educational case study.
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