#37 — Investing Mistakes Most People Make | Sameer Deshpande: “I Used To Convert My Short-Term Trades Into Long-Term Investments.”

About this episode

Sameer Deshpande discusses common investing mistakes and the psychology behind them.

Many investors say they want to “make a lot of money.” But that’s not a strategy. Sameer Deshpande, Head of Wealth Management for Asia Pacific at Emirates NBD, reveals the investing mistakes that most people don’t realise they’re making. From turning short-term trades into long-term investments, to chasing yield over total return, to holding on to losing positions out of hope — we unpack the psychology that quietly erodes performance. We also explore investor behaviour in Asia, the evolut...

People in this episode

Host: Nicole Lee

Guest: Sameer Deshpande

Topics covered

• investing mistakes
• investor psychology
• wealth management
• Asia Pacific
• trading strategies

Keywords

• investing
• trading
• wealth management
• investor behavior
• financial mistakes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Emirates NBD

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