Behavioural finance theories are gaining prominence and could plausibly explain the wild market volatility of recent months, according to Jan Mahrt-Smith, an associate professor of finance at the ...

Behavioural-finance literature also shows that when financial information becomes complex, people tend to rely on mental ...

Systematic Investment Plans have become one of the most reliable ways for retail investors to build wealth through mutual funds. While SIPs simplify investing, the real challenge is not starting the ...

The world of finance and investments is often associated with numbers and statistics, but the real-world experience looks a bit different, with behavioural patterns often playing a significant role in ...

Investing is often described as a numbers game: a world of ratios, charts and data. But the reality is more human. Beneath every trade lies an investor’s decision, and behind every decision is a mind ...

IT'S hard to find a place today where concepts of behavioural finance aren't being applied to real-world situations. From London to Washington to Sydney, governments are experimenting with the ...

Dear gentle reader, the last column introduced Hersh Shefrin’s paper, ‘ESG and Behavioural Finance’ then detailed some of his notable findings in the field of behavioural finance. This week we look at ...

Common sense, debate and real solutions are lost when pop behavioural science comes into play. Wikipedia lists 124 behavioural biases, 29 social biases and 42 memory biases. There are daft ones such ...

Frankfurt-based sentix, a leader in the emerging field of behavioural finance, has been compiling sentiment indices since 2001 by surveying more than 4,500 institutional and private investors. The ...

Much of what counts as the modern study of economics consists merely of advanced mathematical modelling of financial markets, and the election of Donald Trump now renders it mostly worthless.