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Curious Investor Behaviour - Number 6 Anchoring Faced with uncertainty, investors will grasp at any fixed point of reference when forming opinions. In a classic experiment, behavioural psychologists Kahneman...

Curious Investor Behaviour - Number 9 Cognitive Dissonance When there is a conflict between our beliefs and reality, we tend to rationalise irrational behaviour. Cognitive dissonance...

Curious Investor Behaviour - Number 10 Loss Aversion According to empirical evidence, the pain of losing $100 is felt more than twice as much as...

Reflections on Investment - Number 8 Get Rich Slowly It makes a great deal of sense to compound wealth steadily rather than going for bust. Wouldn't you rather...

Curious Investor Behaviour - Number 11 Representativeness Many of us react to the daily avalanche of data by adopting shortcuts - we tend to generalise...