Posts tagged behavioral finance
#331 - Oh, Behave! Behavioral Finance and Retirement: Investment Management
#331 - Oh, Behave! Behavioral Finance and Retirement: Investment Management

Do you think your own behavior affects your retirement investment management? If you said no, you may want to think again. The most significant risk to your finances is not market volatility or inflation, it’s your own behavior. Over the past several episodes we have explored how our own cognitive biases affect our financial choices and this episode continues that journey. On this episode, you will learn what you can do to make better decisions to ultimately protect your money from its own worst enemy: yourself.

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PodcastsRoger Whitneybehavioral finance, Kevin Lyles
#330 - Oh, Behave! Behavioral Finance and Retirement: Retirement Planning
#330 - Oh, Behave! Behavioral Finance and Retirement: Retirement Planning

We all have cognitive biases that we have to account for when retirement planning. Although we can never shed ourselves of these biases we can manage them. In this episode of Retirement Answer Man, we continue to explore behavioral finance and how it affects retirement planning. Our minds like to play tricks on us and prevent us from making rational decisions. Listen to this episode to learn how to be aware of those tricks and overcome them so that you can rock retirement.

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PodcastsRoger Whitneybehavioral finance, medicare, bias
#329 - Oh, Behave! Behavioral Finance and Retirement: Life Planning
#329 - Oh, Behave! Behavioral Finance and Retirement: Life Planning

Life planning is one of the hardest things about retirement. Deciding when to retire can be challenging and is a decision based on more than just money. There are various types of mind tricks that we play on ourselves to talk ourselves out of making life big changes. In this episode of Retirement Answer Man, we continue the behavioral finance series by taking an in-depth look at rational decision making. Come join me to learn how you can make more rational decisions so that you can rock retirement.

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PodcastsRoger Whitneybehavioral finance, medicare, emergency fund
#328 - Oh, Behave! Behavioral Finance and Retirement: Are You Rational?
#328 - Oh, Behave! Behavioral Finance and Retirement: Are You Rational?

This month on the Retirement Answer Man show we are diving deep into behavioral finance. Do you consider yourself a rational person? Most of us think we are rational people, but according to Frederick Nitzsche rationality is impossible. However, without rationality, we are bound to make poor financial decisions. That’s why today we’re going to explore our humanness and focus on how we can make better decisions. Listen in to learn how to make better financial decisions so that you can rock retirement.

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PodcastsRoger Whitneybehavioral finance, capital gains, loss aversion