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Top Traders Unplugged

BO61: Overrated Knowledge & the Neglect of Behavioural Finance

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8670 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Crosby describes how knowledge can sometimes do very little to change Human behaviour, and so may not be as important as people think.

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And I was just wondering, out of curiosity, I mean, do you think that people without your kind of

0:07.6

training sort of deep down might miss something in kind of the advice that they provide to people?

0:14.7

I mean, is it, you know, is it that different?

0:17.7

Having all the knowledge that you have from the academic side, I guess?

0:22.2

Well, I would say that knowledge is the least important part of it all.

0:26.3

You know, I mean, I'm sure we'll discuss today that knowledge does very little to change human

0:31.6

behavior. You know, one of my favorite examples is that in the early 90s here in the U.S.

0:39.5

We started labeling our food.

0:44.4

You know, you see how much fat and sodium and calories and all that's in your food.

0:50.7

And since that time, the U.S. population is twice as fat and, you know, three times as morbidly obese.

0:51.9

And so just knowledge by itself does very little. But for me, having spent

0:56.4

thousands of hours sitting across from people who are having the worst day of their life,

1:01.9

you know, training in empathy and training in connecting with people is immensely valuable when

1:07.5

giving advice. Knowledge is unfortunately not not all that valuable no no

1:13.4

that's true i mean i guess a lot of the people who who do the advice giving so to speak in today's world

1:20.2

i mean they've read other books you know modern portfolio theory and and the likes and whatever

1:25.1

you're given you know when you take your degree in finance.

1:29.8

But I just wonder if maybe today they're not really sort of adequately equipped.

1:34.8

If you don't understand the kind of the overriding rule book of investing,

1:39.4

meaning, you know, humanity and how we, how we behave.

1:43.1

I mean, so to me at least it seems like it's just

1:45.1

an area that should have a much higher place in, you know, in our industry, so to speak.

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