Archive for July, 2014
Debating behavioural finance
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22 Jul 2014Debate concentrates the mind. It is easy to dismiss opinions you disagree with from the privacy of your own living room. Debating articulate exponents of contrary views is another matter – even more so when the discussion takes place in front of a large audience. I found myself in the position of having to sharpen […]
- Tags: behavioural, economics, finance, Fund Strategy, radio, speeches
Debating on BBC this evening
17 Jul 2014I will be debating whether emotion or reason dictate the financial markets on the Free Thinking programme on BBC Radio 3 at 10pm this evening (subsequently available on the internet). The event was recorded at the recent City of London festival (see 7 July post).
- Tags: economics, finance, media appearances, radio, speeches
Liberals against liberalism – text
17 Jul 2014This is the full text of my spiked review of Fred Siegel’s The Revolt Against the Masses. Liberalism is one of a select band of troublesome political concepts that has multiple meanings. Indeed, ‘liberalism’ as used in one context can be the opposite of what it means in another. The attitude of liberalism to freedom […]
- Tags: America, book, media appearances, review, spiked
Liberals against liberalism
11 Jul 2014My latest spiked book review, on Fred Siegel’s Revolt Against the Masses, is available here. I will post the full text at a later date.
- Tags: America, book, media appearances, review, spiked
On first spiked book review podcast
10 Jul 2014You can hear me discussing liberal elitism on the first ever Spiked Review of Books podcast alongside Rob Killick on Rod Liddle’s new book and Helene Guldberg on Saving Normal.
- Tags: America, book, media appearances, review, spiked
Behavioural finance cover story
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9 Jul 2014This is the main text of my recent Fund Strategy cover story on behavioral finance. For a related box see below. Insights into investment behaviour sometimes come from unexpected directions. Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel prize for economics in 2002 for his work on behavioural finance, has described what for him was a eureka […]
- Tags: behavioural, economics, finance, Fund Strategy
Historical parallels
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9 Jul 2014This box was part of my recent Fund Strategy cover story on behavioural finance. Although behavioural finance owed much to modern psychology it also has other antecedents. Often they run parallel to discussions about irrational crowd behaviour. In the 1970s, at about the same time as Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky were starting to develop […]
- Tags: economics, finance, Fund Strategy
Handle numbers with care
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8 Jul 2014This is my column for the July issue of Fund Strategy. Those who work in investment are more guilty than most of being too ready to accept the authority of numbers. Words can be doubted but numbers are often seen as virtually sacrosanct. Indeed, financial news often revolves around numbers. An index is down by […]
- Tags: economics, finance, Fund Strategy, inequality
Debating the City
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7 Jul 2014Given the unpopularity of those who work in financial services it was perhaps appropriate that there was a constant hissing sound in the background. Only this time around the source of the hissing, at least in the main, was a noisy air pump rather than the audience. The venue was the Bowler Hat – a […]
- Tags: Britain, economics, finance, Fund Strategy, speeches
FT piece on global inequality
1 Jul 2014This is the text of my piece on global inequality from last Friday’s Financial Times. It is perhaps the ultimate killer fact: Oxfam, the aid organisation, estimates the 85 richest people in the world own as much wealth as the bottom half of the global population. The figure grabbed global media attention and was even […]
- Tags: development, economics, growth, inequality, media appearances
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