How our human intuition undermine our financial well-being

PUBLISHER: MONEY COMPASS, DECEMBER 2012.

When it comes to the area of managing our wealth, we like to believe that we can make rational decisions for our financial well being. This belief is contrary to what actually happens from extensive research done in the area of behavioral finance. Here are common behaviours documented by researchers where our human intuition undermines our financial well being – Loss Aversion and Money Illusion. …

GavinTeoh

Gavin Teoh is an accredited and experienced financial planner in Malaysia. He won PlanPlus Global Financial Planning Awards of Asia Region in 2014 . A practice director of UOB Kay Hian Wealth Advisors Sdn Bhd. His financial services specialties are holistic financial planning, insurance planning, investment and retirement planning, will-writing and estate planning, and SMI financial risk management.