Behavioural Finance: A guide for financial advisers

This book is a financial adviser’s guide to behavioural finance – the psychology of financial decision-making. Psychological research shows that often people don’t conform with ‘rational’ financial models and theories. Rather, they are subject to a range of decision-making biases. These biases are often deeply rooted in the way people think, in the structures and functions of their brains, in their shared evolutionary histories, in their social environments and cultures, in the lessons they...