Omar Aguilar, Ph.D.
Behavioral Finance Insights from our CIO of Passive Equity and Multi-Asset Strategies
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How trying to avoid regret may cause clients to miss their financial targets
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How following the crowd can make investors feel comfortable, but may hurt performance
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How giving in to instant gratification may impede long-term financial success
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Focusing on recent events can skew the data needed to make a good decision. For clients, this can lead to ill-informed investment decisions. Help them take a broader view of the financial markets.
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Most of us tend to overestimate our abilities. When it comes to money matters, such overconfidence can cause challenges. Here’s how to help clients take a more measured approach.
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Taking a loss is painful. In fact, research suggests that we feel the pain of loss much more than the joy of equivalent gains. But efforts to avoid losses can sometimes introduce new risks that may be damaging for investors.
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It’s great to find other voices that support what you believe. But confirmation bias can be damaging—especially for investors. Here’s how to bring other perspectives to your clients’ financial decision making.
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It’s easy to stick with what you know. But for clients, this investment approach can lead to less diversified—and potentially riskier—portfolios. Here’s how to spot and address home bias.
Direct indexing
30 years of innovation have made possible the next step in investing for your clients: Schwab Personalized Indexing™. Learn more about this evolutionary strategy from Schwab Asset Management CEO Omar Aguilar, PhD.
Omar Aguilar, Chief Investment Officer, Equities and Multi-Asset Strategies, discusses behavioral finance principles and how they affect investor decisions and influence market trends. He also explains the importance of educating advisors on behavioral finance and how the Biagnostics™ program can help advisors deliver a better client experience.