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How Might Behavioral Finance Impact Your Equity Compensation?

Zajac Group

Behavior Finance and Your Portfolio So much of the concept of investing is about logic, math, and numbers. But as we said before, past performance does not guarantee future performanceand its always worth considering your portfolio based on your own goals, needs, and risk tolerance. or Europe).

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: … this isn’t a generalization, but they have a higher risk tolerance. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah. I was econ and kind of geeky.

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Transcript: Karin Risi, Vanguard’s Chief of Strategy & Product

The Big Picture

00:16:36 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, I’m, I’m not gonna check your math on that, but I’ll, I’ll buy Eric saying your, your estimate there on what we’ve saved investors over time. I think we could ballpark it closer to $2 trillion. And I think the focus on cost has been relentless.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. RITHOLTZ: — than a family office.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

Different risk tolerance and different business plan. Poverty, sustenance poverty is a roof over your head, food on your table, reasonable healthcare, it’s a sustenance, the ability to sustain yourself. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I started seeing the muffler shop as a business.

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Transcript: Cass Sunstein

The Big Picture

So the granddaddy of this in my field is when you are setting up a portfolio for an investor, “Hey, tell us about your risk tolerance. It’s a power law, this is very slightly technical for yours truly, the English major, not technical for you, the math guy. But let’s stick with happiness. Are you aggressive?

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