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Behavioral Finance


Book Review: The Behavioral Portfolio

Phillip Toews challenges traditional portfolio construction, helping advisors build resilient strategies and coach clients through risk and bias.

Buyers Beware: 7 Red Flags That Signal a Private Market Reckoning

Explore red flags in private markets as speculative excess, retail marketing, and valuation risks mount. Lessons from financial history.

Clarity by Design: The New Infrastructure for Investment Firms

Investment professionals can’t opt out of complexity, but they can opt into clarity.

Vices, Virtues, and a Little Humor: 30 Quotes from Financial History

This collection of quotes from US financial history offers timeless lessons in vice, virtue, and investing wisdom for every generation.

How Clients’ Investment Goals Reflect Risk Behavior and Hidden Biases

Successful investing isn't just about numbers. It's about aligning strategy with the stories people believe about their future.

Investing Through Uncertainty: 5 Lessons in Emotional Discipline

In light of the uncertainty dominating today’s markets and headlines, it’s worth revisiting some of the behavioral pitfalls that have tripped up investors for centuries.

Social Norms Shape Investment Behavior. What Can Advisors Do About It?

Note to financial advisors: It’s time to embrace the norm effect and rethink how we influence investment decisions.

What Is the Future of Investing? Augmented Intelligence

How can we design a financial system that integrates AI with human intelligence?

From Tweets to Trades: The Risks of Social Media in Investing

Are you able to step outside the confines of social media echo chambers to make informed investment decisions?

Market Efficiency vs. Behavioral Finance: Which Strategy Delivers Better Returns?

Team Efficient Markets vs. Team Behavioral Finance: It's the academic equivalent of Lakers vs. Celtics.