V. The Investor

The confirmation bias consists in privileging the ideas, convictions and opinions that agree with ours and ignore the contrary The...

Ask anyone the opinion about himself and he will say he is better than average (not to risk saying he...

Anchoring holds us to the past and blinds us in the present and for the future Anchoring investments leads us...

Naïve or Apparent Diversification happens when we try to do everything at the same time and without thinking about it,...

What is the Media Response bias? Some worst historical media predictions: Jim Cramer at Bear Sterns risk, Robert Zuccaro of...

Not all our money is always the same to us Mental Accounting in personal finance makes us mistakenly think that...

What is regret? Regret in investments Not setting up a retirement fund is one of the biggest and most common...

What is Narrow Framing? The bias of the narrow framing in investing How can we protect ourselves from this bias?...

What is the herding bias or herd mentality? The market bubbles and the selection of funds based on past performance...

What is loss aversion? How do you distinguish loss aversion from risk aversion? Main implications of loss aversion in investment...