Thinking / Tinkering / Building
Hello, I’mAbhilash.
This is my corner of the internet.
01 — Builds
Things I make,
and use.
A growing shelf of useful things, with MeTube and Docket to start.
MeTube
A YouTube without distractions. Keep your liked videos, Watch Later list and bookmarks together, without recommendations pulling you away.
Explore MeTube ↗ 02 / READINGDocket
A docket for your read-it-later articles. Now arrives to you every weekend like a magazine.
Explore Docket ↗The writing ecosystem
Notes from
the workbench.
A peek into the kitchen, and a market letter from the middle of it.
03 — About
Five desks.
One career.
I started at an asset manager’s research desk, then moved through a global brokerage, a national exchange, and a bank treasury. Today I’m in Compliance at an international bank. Every side of the screen, at least once.
Every desk taught me the same thing: the spreadsheet is never the whole story. Fear, greed, ego, and herd instinct matter too. So I went and studied them properly: Duke, IIM Bangalore, the World Bank, and Ogilvy.
Numbers explain what happened.
People explain why.
International bank
Compliance
Where the rulebook meets the trading desk.
ICICI Bank
Treasury Manager
Forex, bonds, hedging... the “Big Short” stuff, minus the glamour.
Multi Commodity Exchange
Senior Executive
A front-row seat to how traders behave when real money is on the line.
Interactive Brokers
Associate
The market through the client’s eyes.
Abakkus Asset Manager
Research Intern
Where the “but why?” habit began.
National Institute of Securities Markets
PGDM, Securities Markets
The first step into the industry.
The business bit
A little context.
Experience, credentials, and the occasional “expertise.”
Brace yourself.
01 Finance
- Investment Advisor Series X-A
- Portfolio Management Services Series XXI-A
- Research Analyst Series XV
- Equity Derivatives Series VIII
- Currency Derivatives Series I
- Securities Operations & Risk Management Series VII
- Merchant Banking Series IX
- Mutual Fund Distributors Series V-A
02 More than finance
- Behavior Science in Public Policy World Bank
- Applied Behavioral Science Ogilvy
- Behavioral Finance Duke University
- Behavioral Architecture Fractal
- Behavioral Economics & Public Policy IIM Bangalore
- Bloomberg Market Concepts Bloomberg
- Economics for Capital Markets CFI
- Risk Management in Financial Sector TCS
A note on the notes
The story
behind the numbers.
I went to the National Institute of Securities Markets. From there, I began at an asset manager’s research desk.
Since then, I’ve seen markets through brokerage clients, exchange trading, bank treasury, and compliance. Each move changed what I noticed—and made me more curious about what the numbers leave out.
That curiosity led me to behavioural science, through courses at Duke University, IIM Bangalore, the World Bank, and Ogilvy. The questions I follow are simple: What does the business do? What drives its decisions? What would change the story?
Some questions stay in Field Notes. Others grow into market commentary, investment cases, or essays on things around us.
Numbers explain what happened.
The story explains why.
Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.— Lex Luthor