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Tim Richards

Author, Owner of The Psy-Fi Blog
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Tim Richards is a blogger, researcher and advocate of behavioral finance. He owns the Psy-Fi Blog, a sideways look at psychology and finance. Mr Richards is also the author of The Zeitgeist Investor. In 'The Zeitgeist Investor: Unlocking The Mind of the ...more
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The Pschology Of Investing: G Is For Gambler's Fallacy
Sunday, June 22, 2014 2:28 PM EDT
In the short-term, stocks and stock markets are roulette wheels. But in the long-term, careful research, attention to valuation metrics and competitive advantage can reveal much...
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The Pschology Of Investing: F Is For Framing
Saturday, June 21, 2014 9:35 PM EDT
The Psychology of Investing: Bias from A to Z. Today, let's do F.
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The Pschology Of Investing: E Is For Ego Depletion
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:12 AM EDT
Ego Depletion occurs when we're forced into too many acts of self-control in a short period of time.
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The Pschology Of Investing: D Is For Disposition Effect
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 5:42 AM EDT
The Disposition Effect states that we're more likely to sell winners than losers but it also makes a more general statement.
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Five Commandments For Investors (Or Why Dogs Can’t Catch Frisbees)
Monday, June 16, 2014 3:57 PM EDT
Should an investor rely on their gut or a clever statistical model? Read the article for the answer.
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The Pschology Of Investing: C Is For Confirmation Bias
Friday, June 13, 2014 10:53 AM EDT
Confirmation Bias refers to our dedicated and sometimes demented preference for information that supports our pre-existing beliefs or decisions, and our equally fervent attempts to avoid finding disconfirming evidence.
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The Pschology Of Investing: B Is For Base Rate Neglect
Friday, June 13, 2014 5:34 AM EDT
Base Rate Neglect is the all-too-human tendency to ignore the background rate at which some event occurs when trying to assess how probable it is. It's a facet of how our brains are poorly attuned to statistics.
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The Pschology Of Investing: A Is For Anchoring
Friday, June 13, 2014 12:57 AM EDT
The psychology of investing series starts with A is for Anchoring. Anchoring is a fiendishly hard bias to eliminate, but here's a way to start.
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The Dangerously Miasmic Myth Of A 4% Safe Withdrawal Rate
Monday, June 9, 2014 7:53 AM EDT
One - rare - area where academic economic research intersects with the interests of private investors is on the topic of Safe Withdrawal Rates - the maximum amount you can safely withdraw from your investment pot each year following retirement.
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Portfolio Tracking Is For Losers
Monday, June 2, 2014 7:55 AM EDT
If we can’t stop ourselves being biased by market information then we have the alternative of avoiding it. The idea that we should cut ourselves off from our portfolios and limit our exposure to market news is anathema to the majority of us, but we’d probably end up wealthier as a result.
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Capitalism In Crisis Again (Not)
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 8:13 AM EDT
I imagine we all think that what the world needs is a conference on the topic of Inclusive Capitalism, a jolly beanfest of the world’s great and the good dedicated to discussing how to renew trust in capitalism.
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The Turkey Illusion: An Audience With Gerd Gigerenzer
Monday, May 26, 2014 9:23 AM EDT
We pay rich financial services organizations to make predictions based on the past that are only ever correct by chance, in order to absolve ourselves of responsibility for when they go wrong.
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Maladaptive Investing
Monday, May 19, 2014 11:12 AM EDT
One of the things that’s really striking about behavioral bias, when you take this wide angled view, is that it’s less about people behaving irrationally when it comes to finance, and more about finance behaving irrationally when it comes to people.
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A Load Of Bull
Monday, May 12, 2014 7:20 AM EDT
The book, Investing Psychology: The Effects of Behavioral Finance on Investment Choice and Bias (Wiley Finance), is a review of the current state of behavioral finance for the non-expert – a task born out of hope as much as expectation...
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Where Two Strangers Never Meet: Self-Serving Bias
Friday, April 18, 2014 11:25 AM EDT
what do you think will happen to a corporation if you put someone with a bad case of self-serving bias in charge?
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Low Risk, High Rewards: The Low Volatility Anomaly
Monday, March 3, 2014 7:50 AM EDT
It’s an axiom of standard economics that you don’t get above average returns without taking above average risks. No risk, no reward.
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