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Behavioural Finance

The last taboo

5 February 2018
By John Barton
It wasn’t that long ago that most us considered religion, money, sex, politics and death pretty much off-limits when it came to polite conversation. They were no-go topics almost everywhere. Today, most of us talk fairly openly about all these subjects – all bar one that is. The exception for most of us is money!

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Decision-making in times of uncertainty

5 July 2016
In times of uncertainty, there is a strong natural tendency to stay still, to defer action, to wait and see. Of course time marches on and most people tend to forget that deferring a decision to change because of a lack of clarity about the future is in fact a decision to stick with the status-quo, even when there may be a very sound case for making changes.

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Reframe your thinking and take control of your future — part two

18 November 2015
In Part One of our discussion on reframing we considered the benefits of thinking about your income as an asset. Turning now from income to your investment assets, it can be equally valuable to reverse your thinking when it comes to your personal balance sheet.

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Reframe your thinking and take control of your future — part one

18 November 2015
We all understand that the way we ask a question can have a huge impact on the answer we receive. In academe, this is called framing and it refers the cognitive bias which causes people to react to a particular choice in different ways depending on how it is presented.

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