79: Behavioral Finance Principles That Actually Improve Financial Behavior with Barry Ritholtz

As behavioral finance has moved into the mainstream, one thing has become clear.

It’s great to know there’s a way to explain a client’s sub-optimal behavior. But, it’s an entirely different challenge to know what to do about it. 

In other words, behavioral finance has done a great job of providing advisors with a list of diagnoses: Overconfidence, anchoring, Dunning-Kreuger

Barry Ritholtz has been on the cutting edge of behavioral finance for years. In this episode, he peels back the curtain to share the specific ways that Ritholtz Wealth Management focuses on improving client behavior.

We discuss:

• Why steer clear of market forecasts and focus instead on probabilities
• A question to ask clients who believe everything they hear on TV
• Effectively setting expectations in the midst of uncertainty
• How they minimize bias by naming their portfolios
• The “Milestone Rewards” program that discounts fees for optimal behavior

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Resources:

• The featured partner for this episode is Knudge, an automated system to help clients actually follow through on their tasks and reach their financial goals

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