There has been quite a lot of exciting (for me, at least) neurological research in the last few decades aimed at understanding the neurology of risk taking, with research on our dear laboratory rats, testing for example how their behaviour changed when injecting...
The financial industry, specifically its investment management branch, has traditionally operated based on 3 models: investment management, where a client appoints one or more managers to invest and divest, buy and sell securities on his behalf; investment advisory,...
In the last couple of years “coaching” has become more popular, although some confusion on the meaning remains, and the subtle as well as not-so-subtle differences between coaching and mentoring, and between coaching/mentoring and educating, is not always appreciated....
I would argue that financial planning, be it conscious or unconscious, controlled or uncontrolled, starts around primary or latest secondary school, when your future academic and career paths already start to be defined and will potentially be compounded over decades....
Bad investment performance? Why is that: many bad decisions? Or just one or two bad ones? Solid but unlucky decisions? And is it with respect to instruments selected? Or sector choices? Or maybe even at an asset class level? And that good investment manager you...
