Thumb Rules that help you make asset allocation decisions simple
Investors India|December 2019
Till the recent past, all of us had a family doctor who had this amazing ability to predict how long a fever would last, that too without conducting any medical test.
Ajit Menon, CEO, PGIM India Mutual Fund
Thumb Rules that help you make asset allocation decisions simple

Similarly, an experienced cook is able to tell the quantity of ingredients required to cook food for an entire event. A tailor can tell the length of cloth required to stitch a suit by just looking at the body structure. Even before google maps came into existence, an experienced cabbie on the streets of Mumbai could have given you a fair estimation of time required to reach a particular destination, that too for different hours of the day. And a good fielder is able to take a running catch without first calculating the trajectory, speed and direction of the cricket ball. Ever wondered how they do it?

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