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September 1, 2009
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Snap Judgment The past year has been a living laboratory for behavioral economists. Widespread panic? Observable. Herd instincts? No doubt. Overwhelmed, paralyzed investors? Righty-o. Then it's a perfect time to read Snap Judgment, by David E. Adler and share it with clients. |
Financial Advisor
June 2004
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Clients Misbehavin' Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist at Princeton University, applies lessons from behavioral finance to client management and identifies several common mistakes individual investors are prone to make. |
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Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy? Jim Heskett explores the argument for a more deliberative approach to problem solving offered up in the new Daniel Kahneman book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. |
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Do Investors Make Rational Or Emotional Decisions? Behavioral finance looks to predict investor action. |
The Motley Fool
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Your 401(k) Isn't as Bad as You Think Although the vast majority of 401(k) plans have investment options that are good enough for workers to create strong retirement portfolios, most workers aren't up to the challenge. |
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Human Behavior A discipline combining economics and psychology, behavioral finance turns one basic tenet of economic theory -- that people make rational decisions when given the right information -- on its head. |
The Motley Fool
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Retirement and Irrational Man, Part 2 If you've stuck with the default options in your 401(k) because you were automatically enrolled in the savings plan, it's time to take a look at your contributions and investments. |
Finance & Development
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The Lab Man How experimental economics emerged from the shadows: an interview with Nobel Prize winner Vernon L. Smith |
Financial Planning
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The Enemy Within Use the principles of behavioral finance to keep your clients -- and yourself -- from making costly investment mistakes. |
BusinessWeek
February 20, 2006 |
"Economists Suffer from Physics Envy" In search of a better economics theory, MIT's Andrew Lo says evolutionary dynamics could shed light on why investors behave as they do |
Prepared Foods
December 2007
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Surprising Factors Influence What and How Much We Eat Behavioral economics reveals new possibilities for more healthful food choices. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement? Will you be taking a brain-scan for your next job interview? What is the emerging world of neuromanagement and what does it mean? |
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EBRI Report: Behavioral Finance and Retirement Plan Contributions This brief discusses behavioral finance research, underlying causes for both passive and active saving and investing choices, and prescriptions offered by behaviorists to overcome the effects of less-than-ideal savings and investing choices. |
Financial Planning
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The Pioneer Richard Thaler, now a professor at the University of Chicago, along with cognitive psychologists Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky, pioneered and shaped the field of behavioral economics thirty years ago. |
On Wall Street
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Crossing From The Ivory Tower To The Office Tower Knowing what an investor wants and how his or her feelings color decision-making is becoming more crucial in the increasingly competitive world of attracting and retaining high-net-worth clients. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Making Right Choices: Art or Science? Choice is especially difficult when it is between two roughly equally good or bad alternatives, which is often the case that managers confront. |
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The Psychology of Advice: Gender Matters A financial advisor's understanding of male-female differences (and similarities) can offer more insight, more compassion, and more inspiration in helping individuals and couples create the life they envision. |
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Behavioral Economics The study of behavioral economics aims to understand how psychological phenomena like emotions and group dynamics influence economic decisions. Studies have found that people often make decisions that are not in their best interest |
Scientific American
April 2007
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Free to Choose The neuroscience of choice exposes the power of ideas. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Can Housing and Credit be "Nudged" Back to Health? Two current books, Nudge and Enough, help us understand the roots of the current housing and credit crises as well as possible ways of avoiding them in the future. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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The Business of Behavioral Economics Leslie John and Michael Norton explore how behavioral economics can help people overcome bad habits and change for the better. |
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Wealth Management Psych Out Behavioral finance is a field that is gaining traction among financial advisors. It is a full-fledged discipline that offers tools serious wealth management firms are using to understand and serve high-net-worth clients. |
The Motley Fool
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1 Mistake Investors Make Learn about the irrational error we all commit and how to avoid falling victim to it. |
On Wall Street
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When Good Clients Behave Badly Learning how and why your clients think is critical to helping them make sound financial decisions. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Is Behavioral Finance a Growth Industry? The subdiscipline of behavioral finance has gained ground over the last half-decade. The idea is simple: Investors are not as rational as traditional theory has assumed, and biases in their decision-making can have a cumulative effect on asset prices... |
