Amos Tversky

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  Are You Charging Enough for Your Services? Most Likely, No

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  March 15, 2013

  Financial advisors are underselling their services, typically discounting their fees—and needlessly so, according to Pusateri Consulting and Training.

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  New Behavioral Finance Findings and Optimal Asset Allocation

  By Savita Iyer-Ahrestani, AdvisorOne  |  February 23, 2012

  A Swiss professor extends Kahneman and Tversky's research to explore how a client's aversion to loss is based on individual reference points and mental accounting, and the implications for advisors.

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  Can Models Create the Low Correlations That the Markets Have Lost?

  By Bob Clark, AdvisorOne  |  February 14, 2012

  The Connors Group’s Machine Advisor approach might provide an intriguing answer.

• Kahneman’s Close-Up

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  November 28, 2011

  Reading the December issue of Vanity Fair, I came across a curious find.

• Read yourself to rational behavior

  By Staff Writer  |  March 1, 2009

  Any good psychiatrist will tell you recognizing destructive behavior is the first step in correcting it. In a slight departure from the normal Checklist format,...

• Behavioral economics, your boomer clients - and you

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  March 1, 2009

  Little surprise; we're our own worst enemy. An oft-repeated (and startling) statistic from research firm Dalbar Inc. found that while the S&P 500 returned 12.2...

• Defining Behavioral Finance Terms

  By Staff Writer  |  July 1, 2005

  Anchoring. The tendency of investors to become attached to a specific price as the fair value of a holding. Attachment bias. Holding onto an investment for...

• To Learn More About Behavioral Finance . . .

  By Staff Writer  |  July 1, 2005

  BOOKS Advances in Behavioral Finance by Richard Thaler (Russell Sage Foundation, 1993) Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein (John Wiley & Sons, 1996) Choices, Values,...

• All In Your Head

  By Robert F. Keane  |  July 1, 2005

  Albert Einstein once reportedly said, "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." While the great...