Brahmachari Property & Investing
Property: 14.9% Return on Equity (net, pre-tax last 12m to Nov 2025)
Global Stocks/Bonds: 9.31% IRR (FY 2024)
On my site I discuss:
(i) Investing
(ii) Growth Mindset
“If you want to put a satellite beyond the atmosphere, you need a rocket. If you want to just fly around in the atmosphere, an airplane will do. That is the difference. When you are planning and projecting to do something which is beyond certain limitations, brahmacharis become necessary.“
“A rocket goes up because it is firing only on one side. If it fires on all the sides, it is not going to go anywhere; it will just dissipate itself. Or it will go somewhere without direction and fall apart. What we are trying to make out of a brahmachari is just that they fire only on one side. One that fires only on one side is going to go straight up and there is a particular purpose to creating such a system.”
Sadhguru
Investing
Property

Most of my allocation is towards Property. Despite not being a very scalable asset class, the way I do it yields more returns than most Public/Private Investing portfolios.
This is not BTL, which by the way is done. ‘This’ is about my process of selecting undervalued sites and adding value with DIY/contractors, or running HMOs/SAs. The portfolio yielded 14.9%+ return on equity last 12m to Nov 2025 (net, pre-tax).
I also started to manage AirBnb’s/BTLs for other people. Callout costs are kept low thanks to my Handyman skills.
I am giving away my free Guide “AirBnB is safer than BTL“, which is my complete playbook on serviced accommodation – just drop your email below – It also touches on “LTD vs Personal Ownership” and “Corporate Structure for Tax Efficiency”





Investing
Systematic
I have been working on systematic strategies for public equities. I have seen outperformance of my signals based trading system, but didn’t have the time to implement them.
Agentic coding will one day allow me to switch my strategies on and test them.
Rather than a simplistic factor tilt approach which most asset managers use (then lose your money and charge you fees), I use factor models which are proprietary that consistently beat simpler widely used approaches.

Adjacent are two images that show some options research, and how the Volga-Vanna correction (used a lot in FX options) can be used to get a more realistic value for volatility (vs the Black Scholes vol) – the application is towards option vol arbitrage, mainly on time to expiry, buying when vol is low and selling when it is high.


Investing
Multi-Asset (Stocks/Bonds)
Besides Property/Systematic I am interested in Global Multi-Asset. Last year the returns for my portfolio were in line with the Hedge Fund averages – but I am not silly enough to believe this was all skill.
My Dashboard – https://robinspinks.pythonanywhere.com/
My allocation towards Gold/US Tech/China did well and I learnt a lot of lessons. Two being: avoid FX and leveraged ETFs.
Multi-Asset and Global Allocation, unleveraged, is more for wealth preservation than wealth growth – so I will focus on higher returning Investments.

Growth Mindset



I love consuming growth mindset content from many creators, here’s a list if you are ever in need of a podcast:
Business:
• Alex Hormozi – Went from IBD to become a Gym Janitor now on his way to billions
• Myron Golden – Trashman to multimillionaire, who is incredibly insightful – A quote by him, after someone made a comment about his business: “I could either be annoyed that someone ‘dissed’ me or thank them for raising what I thought I could achieve”
• Tom Bilyeu – Infectious energy, Founder: able to ask the “dumb” questions
• Carol Musyoka – Kenyan ex-Banker turned entrepreneur
• Simon Squibb – Entrepreneur with high morals
Mobile Apps:
• Steve Young at App Masters – Has the bests guests on his podcast, has the best marketing advice for apps using free and paid methods.
Sales/Marketing:
• Shelby Sapp – Girl Boss who talks about mindset and sales
• Rory Sutherland – British Marketing Guru
• Seth Godin – American Marketing Guru
• April Dunford – Talks about the important distinction between Marketing and Positioning
Founders:
• Amanda Bradford – Another Girl Boss and Founder of ‘The League’
• Brett Malinowski – Cutting edge podcast – hosts the best new founders
• Jack Neal – startup/business podcasts
• Zach Yadegari – Co-founder of Cal.Ai
• Blake Anderson- Co-founder of Cal.Ai
• Roy Lee – Founder of Cluely, kicked out of an Ivy League university TWICE.
• Christina Maxxion – The Dubai Millionaire Matchmaker
• Delbert Ty – Coffee meets Bagel Founder



Culture | Values | Ethos
My life has been an exercise in making the impossible happen and taking radical responsibility.
I have studied Taoism/Hinduism since age 10. And have been able to do great things because of my contrarian way of being.


My favourite bias – Dunning-Kruger
During Sixth Form I screwed up my first year of A-Levels. I decided to teach myself 2 new A-levels which were more aligned to my strengths, working relentlessly over my summer break. When school started, I “informed” my school, to their surprise, that they needed to set the exams up (lol). Prior to sixth form, at high school, I was bullied relentlessly. It was a failing school, but I went from there, with zero help to Imperial College London – number 2 in the world. Getting into Deutsche Bank out of Uni was a huge moment for me, coming from a very modest background.
Do you want to “win” vs other people or do you want to 10x your life?
When there wasn’t enough money to get Piano lessons – I said screw it and taught myself to play grade 8 pieces by Debussy/Chopin.
I did the same thing for Figure Skating and taught myself all the jumps and spins.
Accountability culture is literally in my DNA.
After working at 5 global banks, I know a thing or two about the cultures that work.
At one firm I saw one loved “bad-egg” who made £0.5 million errors in swap positioning, wrong risk weights kept in models (RoEs were off by ~3% as a result), £100,000s wasted on useless technologies, when free versions were available, sabotaging peoples ppt’s before meetings or denying people data accesses to block others work – why did managers trust this person? “because we like him – he thinks like us” they said.
Another firm saw large returns erosion due to cowboy style underwriting, celebrations when deals were won – yet no one could tell you the risk capital being held against anything (and hence the returns and the whole point of the entire business) and a head of compliance who was listed in a fraud register. Top performer meant ‘I put half a dozen mistakes in other peoples work to make me look better’
After witnessing these events it is crystal clear to me how Credit Suisse happened.


Corporate Culture
Ethics & Morality underpins everything I do – these are never compromised, not for £10k, not for £1bn. This is a key to Wealth (not Money – there’s a difference), The poorest people have a scarcity mindset. The long term costs of fraud are always greater than the short term rewards.
I advocate for cultures where radical accountability & challenge are rewarded – Many banks I have been at were good at this like. But the best bank at this was HSBC – I was first exposed to the concept of cognitive bias by an MD at HSBC who put a poster up on the wall describing the idea.

List of Main Cognitive Biases
Dunning–Kruger Effect: People with low ability often overestimate their competence.
Confirmation Bias: Tendency to seek or favor information that confirms existing beliefs.
Availability Heuristic: Overestimating the importance of information that comes to mind easily.
Hindsight Bias: Believing past events were more predictable than they actually were.
Optimism Bias: Assuming positive outcomes are more likely than they really are.
Pessimism Bias: Assuming negative outcomes are more likely than they really are.
Bandwagon Effect: Adopting beliefs or behaviors because many others do.
Sunk Cost Fallacy: Continuing something because of past investment, not future value.
Self-Serving Bias: Attributing successes to oneself but failures to external factors.
Fundamental Attribution Error: Overemphasizing personal traits and underestimating context in judging others.
Halo Effect: Letting one positive trait influence overall judgment of a person or thing.
Horn Effect: Letting one negative trait influence overall judgment of a person or thing.
Authority Bias: Overvaluing the opinion of someone perceived as an authority.
Recency Bias: Giving greater importance to the most recent information.
Salience Bias: Focusing on the most noticeable features rather than relevant ones.
In-group Bias: Favoring people who are perceived as belonging to one’s own group.
Out-group Homogeneity Bias: Believing members of other groups are more alike than they really are.
Status Quo Bias: Preferring things to stay the same rather than change.
Loss Aversion: Feeling losses more strongly than equivalent gains.
Overconfidence Bias: Being more confident in one’s judgments than justified.
Framing Effect: Decisions are influenced by how information is presented.
Illusion of Control: Believing one has control over outcomes that are actually chance.
Projection Bias: Assuming others think or feel the same way we do.
AWARD AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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Birthday Party
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Vacation
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Wedding Photography
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Videography
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Wildlife Photography
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New Born
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