Ethics & decision making: how we rationalise our financial choices [🧠Brain Hacks]
Jun 26, 2024
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Kate Campbell, author of 'Buying Happiness', and Evan Lucas delve into financial decision-making on 🧠Brain Hacks. They discuss rationalization, ethical implications, biases, and aligning choices with values. The podcast explores conflicts of interest, biases in finance, and the importance of self-awareness in navigating ethical dilemmas.
Rationalization can lead to unethical financial decisions, necessitating management strategies.
Financial decision-making should consider personal circumstances, ethics, conflicts of interest, and biases.
Deep dives
Understanding the Concept of Gearing in Investment
Gearing, commonly known in the stock market, is highlighted as a valuable tool for property investors who favor taking on debt to leverage their investments, providing the potential for increased gains. The Beadershares Wealth Builder Funds exemplify this strategy, offering moderate gearing for investors interested in Australian and global shares but emphasizing the associated risks. The importance of reading the fund's PDS and TMD on Betashares.com.au is stressed to assess suitability.
Exploring Rational Decision-Making in Finance
The podcast delves into the concept of rational decision-making in finance, challenging the traditional notion of rationality and proposing a shift towards reasonable decision-making. Economic rationalism's historical perspective on leveraging investments over a long period is discussed, emphasizing the need for a more balanced approach considering personal circumstances, life events, and ethical considerations in decision-making processes.
Navigating Conflicts of Interest in Investing
The discussion extends to conflicts of interest in financial decision-making, exploring how biases, friendships, networks, and relationships can impact investment choices. The podcast advocates for heightened awareness of conflicts of interest in financial interactions to make more informed decisions, highlighting the importance of introspection, questioning motives, and journaling to evaluate biases and rationalizations.
In this episode of 🧠Brain Hacks, Kate Campbell and Evan Lucas explore our financial decision-making process. We discuss rationalisation, how it can lead to unethical decisions that harm our finances, and how to manage this.
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