A new book explores the behaviour behind investment decisions
Amit Marwah and Abhishek Marwah have launched The Rigged Game, a book that places investor behaviour at the centre of a discussion about financial markets. Bringing together backgrounds in business leadership, investment management and financial services, the authors explore how people respond to uncertainty and why patience can be difficult to sustain when markets test an investor’s convictions.
At the heart of the book is a question: if investors can see the same prices, news and opportunities, why do their outcomes differ so widely? Its overview identifies fear, greed and crowd behaviour among the influences that can shape those differences. The authors’ subject is the decision-making that takes place around market information, particularly when emotions make a long-term plan harder to follow.
For Amit Marwah, CFA, the book accompanies a career spanning close to two decades across private equity, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, strategy and business operations in the Gulf region. His professional roles include Group Chief Operating Officer of Dayim Middle East Holdings and Chief Executive Officer of Dayim Trucks. He previously served as Group Chief Investment Officer of Dayim Holdings.
That background connects the release to the practical demands of allocating capital and leading businesses. His experience encompasses investment responsibilities as well as operational leadership, giving readers context for his contribution to a book concerned with judgement, discipline and decisions whose consequences unfold over time.
Co-author Abhishek Marwah is the founder of Marwah Financial and has more than 20 years of experience in financial services. An investor and mutual fund distributor, he works in a field that includes mutual fund distribution, goal-based financial planning and wealth management solutions. His background includes strategic investment planning and long-term wealth creation, alongside his own exposure to equity mutual funds, direct equity and other investment avenues.
Abhishek’s stated investment philosophy emphasises patience, diversification and long-term thinking. Those priorities connect directly with the book’s behavioural focus. His background brings the perspective of financial planning and individual investment choices to the collaboration, complementing Amit’s experience in corporate investment and leadership. Their collaboration brings these areas of experience into a discussion of how investing works in practice.
The Rigged Game explores market cycles, volatility, mean reversion, compounding and time alongside the emotional pressures that surround investing. In the book’s framing, these forces help explain why having access to information does not settle the question of how an investor will act. A period of uncertainty can become a test of behaviour, particularly when the decisions of a wider crowd exert pressure on an individual’s judgement.
According to its overview, the book draws on real-world experiences, observations and practical frameworks to examine these challenges. It asks whether an investor’s edge may depend on the ability to behave differently when others are moving in the same direction. That question connects the authors’ professional backgrounds with their shared attention to the habits and responses that influence investment decisions over time.
The release is likely to interest readers who want to understand the psychological side of investing and the relationship between a financial plan and the behaviour needed to sustain it. Its themes also speak to readers considering why a reasonable long-term intention can become difficult to maintain during periods of volatility. The emphasis remains on understanding the forces at work and recognising how those forces can affect judgement.
The book’s description explicitly sets aside quick tips and get-rich-quick schemes. Its discussion of patience and discipline offers a framework for examining behaviour. Investment outcomes remain uncertain, and the emphasis on long-term thinking should not be read as a guarantee of returns.
With The Rigged Game, Amit Marwah and Abhishek Marwah bring their professional perspectives to a shared publishing project about a familiar investing challenge: acting consistently when conditions are uncomfortable. The launch introduces a book focused on how investors think, what influences their choices and the role that time plays in the decisions they make.
