Category Archives: Behavioral Finance Basics

A Review of Dalbar’s 2015 “Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior”

Dalbar researches and reports on the returns of investors compared to benchmark indices over various [...]

An Action Plan For Investors Holding Too Much Cash

One of the greatest benefits of being a public speaker is getting to meet different [...]

Behavioral Investing Insights – Featuring Psychologist Dr. Daniel Crosby @incblot

Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist who has been training financial professionals on how biases [...]

Chasing Risk For Little Return

Many investors are lured into purchasing securities after they have had good performance in hopes [...]

Why Investors Should Hope For More Volatility

It is well known that market volatility can cause fear and irrational behavior among investors…namely [...]

DisneyWorld, Sunk Costs, Loss Aversion & Investors

This last week for Spring Break my family vacationed in Orlando, Florida. We were there [...]

A Prescription for Investors Who Speculate

Many people have had the experience of winning and losing money at a casino. Most [...]

What Investors Can Learn From Brian Williams

Brian Williams has been suspended for six months without pay.  But the media is missing the [...]