behavioural economics

How might your personality affect your investments?

Find out about how your own investing personality may be driving some of your best and worst investing decisions.

September 24, 2021

The volatility trap

The markets have plunged, and news of a recession is everywhere. Here’s where our evolutionary impulse to flee comes from, and why cashing out isn’t always the best decision.

May 4, 2020

Retirement / Your Business

Be a better spender (and sock away the extra)

Here are some ways our brains can trick us into spending more than we intend to. By spending more mindfully, you might free up money for your financial goals.

February 18, 2020

Retirement / Spend /Play /Travel

Keep calm and invest on: the psychology of losses

Kim Parlee talks to Dilip Soman an economist and director of Behavioural Economics in Action at the Rotman School of Management, talks about our behaviour around money and how to use insights from Behavioural Economics to avoid financial missteps.

January 24, 2019

Retirement / Spend /Play /Travel