Creator
Greg Davies founded and led the first behavioural finance team in banking globally in 2006, serving as Barclays’ global head of behavioural quant finance for a decade. Since 2017, he has led behavioural innovation at fintech Oxford Risk, developing behavioural technology to enhance financial decision-making. He holds a PhD in behavioural decision theory from Cambridge University and is co-author of Behavioral Investment Management.
There is no point at which you finish learning how to invest
Why making money for the wrong reason is one of investing’s biggest risks – and how feedback, not outcomes, reveals skill
Most investors confuse familiarity with understanding. Your true circle of competence is probably much smaller than you think
Telling investors to do nothing rarely works. A small, ringfenced ‘play pot’, bounded by rules, scratches the itch without damaging the core
Why an investing constitution – rules written while you’re calm – may be the most useful thing a private investor can do
Greg B Davies on why the ‘optimal’ portfolio often fails in practice – and how to build one you can actually hold through the cycle
With investing, uncertainty never disappears. But waiting for the right time is an even bigger risk
Becoming a better investor is deceptively simple. Good investing is not about brilliance, it’s about avoiding unforced errors
To gain the ultimate edge in investing, you need to know your financial personality. Are you a high- or low-composure investor?
Markets rise, fall and recover, and our emotions follow the same path. Recognising the pattern isn’t the hard part. Living through it is
The challenge in investing is that our quick and emotional brain often calls the shots, while the slower, more effortful (and wiser) system tends to arrive late
Our instincts were built for surviving on the savannah, not the stock market. What once kept our ancestors alive now quietly robs modern investors of wealth
