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Nilakantan Rajaraman

Nilakantan Rajaraman was a Data Scientist at FundsIndia.com.

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Gamifying your Investments

Nilakantan Rajaraman

As you login to your account, you’ll now see on the top right corner a box that tells you where you stand among your peer investors! This will help rank…Continue Reading

Why passive investing is not random in India

Nilakantan Rajaraman

The Mathematician George Spencer-Brown, in his book, ‘Probability and Scientific Inference’, tells us something remarkable. In a random series of 101000007 zeroes and ones, there are likely to be 10…Continue Reading

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Can Social Learning help Investing?

Nilakantan Rajaraman

Historically, every single attempt to automate human activity has been met with stiff resistance. In the late 19th and early 20th century, when tall buildings started coming up, lifts or…Continue Reading

Investment Behavior: Young & Old

Nilakantan Rajaraman

FundsIndia investor distribution, much like most things related to the Internet in India, is skewed towards young working age men. As a result our investors when measured across age for…Continue Reading

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FundsIndia’s Successful Investors: A Data Analysis

Nilakantan Rajaraman

I’m Nilakantan S. Rajaraman and I work as a Data Scientist at FundsIndia. One of the things I do every day is stare at data. And hope for some insights…Continue Reading