How Investment Choices Are Framed Determines Our Decisions
TOM HUDSON: Investing involves making choices. Do you invest in this fund or that one? When should you sell? How an investment choice is presented or framed can have a big impact on what we decide to...
View ArticleFamiliarity and Finances
TOM HUDSON: Do you consider yourself a good investor? Do you follow the investment advice to buy stocks of companies you know? If so, you may be falling for the familiarity bias. Tonight in our...
View ArticleFamiliarity Breeds Investor Mistakes
SUSIE GHARIB: When it comes to sports, most people root for the home team. And when it comes to investing, many people buy stocks in companies also on their home turf. This is called familiarity bias...
View ArticleToo Much Information Impacts Investment Decisions
SUSIE GHARIB: Technology has revolutionized investing in many ways, especially when it comes it to the delivery of investment information. Well, now even the smallest investor has an even — has an...
View ArticleThe Cost of Too Many Choices
TOM HUDSON: Having more choices is a good thing, right? Well, not necessarily when it comes to money. When confronted with lots of investment choices, a common reaction is to freeze up and do nothing....
View ArticleIs Investment Behavior Inherited?
SUZANNE PRATT: Here’s something to think about. Behavioral research has found a similarity between high-risk investors and murders. Specifically, studies claim both murders and high-risk investors may...
View ArticleGenes Determine Whether You Are A Spender or Saver
SUSIE GHARIB: Is our saving and investing behavior learned or inherited? Researchers have been delving into that question and have made some surprising findings by looking at the behavior of twins....
View ArticleTracking Investment Traits
SUSIE GHARIB: So what determines your investment personality? Is it being born to the right parents? Having a lot of money? Being male or female? Research suggests the answer may be all of the above....
View ArticleControlling Bad Investment Impulses
What can we do to keep our biases and emotions from leading us into poor investing choices?
View ArticleAuthor Manisha Thakor looks at Tell-Tell Spending Habits
What your behavior says about your spending habits. On My Own Two Feet Author Manisha Thakor explains
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