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Do investors always follow the rules of rational financial investment?

How is the average investor supposed to behave? In this video, Maurizio Fiaschetti outlines the key themes and applications of behavioural finance.

According to many traditional theories of finance, the average investor generally adopts an unbiased decision-making process in line with the rules of rational investing. But what are these rules, and can such an investor actually exist?

In this video, Maurizio Fiaschetti from SOAS School of Finance and Management outlines the principal themes in the study of behavioural finance, and asks if it is possible to learn how to make individually and collectively better financial decisions.

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