Nudging Financial Behaviour

In this episode of The Nudging Financial Behaviour Podcast, we’re looking at how you can overcome Home Bias by chatting about diversification. This is a risk management strategy for investing and a vital part of any investment portfolio. 

To help us really understand diversification, we’ve got the queen of ETFs and of spreadsheets Nerina Visser as our guest. Nerina gives plenty of practical tips to help you get to grips with your p...

Home bias is just what it sounds like – you prefer to choose things that are closer to home. For investing, this can mean that you have too many assets in your portfolio that are linked to the country you’re living in or the company you work for – and this can lead to major problems. 

One of Gizelle’s former PHD students, Shreeya Jugnandan, is our guest for this episode. Shreeya actually unpacked Home Bias for her thesis. She found...

In this episode of The Nudging Financial Behaviour Podcast, we’re looking at two biases that are all about the order in which you receive information and how that can impact the way you make decisions. These are the Primacy Effect (also known as First Impression Bias) and Recency Bias. They’re similar but not quite the same. 

To help us with our discussion and to give us some more insights into how our biases can impact the way we ...

Availability bias is all about how we are influenced by information that is readily available, and how we often don’t do enough research before making decisions. In episode 6 of The Nudging Financial Behaviour Podcast, we’re breaking down this bias and taking a look at just how big an impact it can have when we aren’t focusing on the bigger picture or doing the right research. 

Our guest for the episode is professor Hersh Shefrin –...

Impression management is exactly what you think it is – tactics and strategies deployed to manage the impression you have of someone or something. What’s important to know is that loss aversion and the understanding of how that impacts human behaviour is a large part of those impression management tactics. 

For episode 5 of The Nudging Financial Behaviour Podcast, we’re calling on someone from outside of the finance and investing c...

We’re still looking at loss aversion in episode 4 of The Nudging Financial Behaviour Podcast – that’s right, it’s a big topic! Today, we’re breaking down the disposition effect, which is all about how loss aversion manifests itself in the world of investing. 

Our guest is Professor Terry Odean from the Haas School of Business at the University of California in Berkeley. He is a prolific author and researcher on the topic of behavio...

In episode 3 of The Nudging Financial Behaviour Podcast, we’re looking at uncertainty and how it differs from risk. This discussion is all about known and unknown probabilities. We also unpack two biases – The Gambler’s Fallacy and The Hot-Hand Effect. 

We thought that the best way to really get to grips with these biases was to chat to someone who knows a lot about trading. Our guest is Garth Mackenzie, a prolific trader with plen...

Loss aversion is a big bias. It can impact us in so many ways – causing us to make strange decisions about money. This bias can actually cause you to become risk seeking when you’re faced with a possible loss and then risk averse when you have a gain on your hands. Yes, that’s quite complex behaviour… so we break it down for you carefully. 

Our guest for episode 2 is Dr Greg Davies. He heads up the behavioural finance division of O...

To kick off season 2 of The Nudging Financial Behaviour Podcast, we’re talking about a big topic – risk. Risk aversion and risk tolerance are two big concepts that you need to wrap your head around if you want to understand one of the strongest pulls on how and why you make specific decisions about your money. 

To help us unpack risk tolerance, we have high performance coach, trainer and trading consultant Steve Ward as our first g...