13 min listen
Samantha Lamas - The Complicated Art of Making Things Simple
Samantha Lamas - The Complicated Art of Making Things Simple
ratings:
Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Jul 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Tune in to hear:- Why is it often complicated to offer a simple and elegant solution for the common behavioral dilemmas that advisors face?- Why might psychological shortcuts potentially lead to gender bias in asset allocation?- Are there any salient differences between men and women, on average, in regards to risk tolerance?- How can we systematize the information gathering process during client intake in order to give more equitable advice?- Why is there often a discrepancy between where clients perceive value in working with an advisor and where the advisors themselves perceive they are adding value?- What are some ways that advisors can prime their clients for more effective goal setting?- If Samantha could offer just one small behavioral intervention to make life a little better for each of us, what would she suggest?https://twitter.com/SamanthaLamas4Compliance Code: 1116-OAS-6/27/2022
Released:
Jul 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Humankind's Greatest GIft Is Also Its Greatest Liability: If bees organize by innate mandate and chimps through tight-knit social interactions, the miracle of human ascendance in the animal kingdom owes to a penchant for behaving in accordance with social narratives. To put it bluntly, we act as if the stories we make up are real. As Harari writes in the magisterial Sapiens, “As far as we know, only Sapiens can talk about entire kinds of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled.” A monkey can say, “There is a caribou by the river” but could never communicate that, “The caribou by the river is the spiritual guardian of our city.” This ability to communicate about the unreal allows us to create all manner of social structures that help bring about predictable human behavior and that reliably breed trust. The State of Alabama, the Catholic church, the Constitution of the United States of America, the inalienable civil rights of man: none of these things are “real” in the by Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby