Behavioral Finance
Using mindfulness to overcome biases and resolve conflicts can create new opportunities.
Mental shortcuts are useful for handling information overload, but consciously structuring your decision process can make bad or ineffective outcomes less likely.
A deeper understanding of the tensions that have driven ongoing clashes will be essential for investment professionals looking to adapt their approach to the global economy.
Dan Ariely set out to remind the 300 investment professionals at this year’s European Investment Conference of two simple facts:
Being a good forecaster isn't just about getting things right. It requires the ability to admit when you've gotten things wrong.
Our generation of investors must navigate an anemic global economy that was inconceivable only a few years ago, unmoved by zero interest rates and bursts of experimental monetary policy. Mark Harrison, CFA, has identified key presentations to help professionals chart a path forward.
Halla Tomasdottir cofounded Audur Capital in the year before Iceland’s massive financial crisis. She credits the survival of her firm to four key values.
Professor Dan Ariely believes the financial profession has an opportunity to reinvent itself, addressing cognitive biases in a way that can be beneficial for advisers and their clients.
Behavioural finance coach, Paul Craven, shares practical measures investment professionals can take to address their behavioural biases at the 2015 CFA Institute Middle East Investment Conference in Kuwait.
Paul Woolley, a senior fellow at the London School of Economic and Political Science, neatly made the case that it’s long past time for professional investors to set aside the Efficient Market Hypothesis as the basis of most asset management strategies.