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Your Financial Personality – Taming Your Emotions When Investing – an Audio Discussion

Posted on May 2, 2013 by ajkeown

When it comes to investing – your financial personality, which is a reflection of your attitude about money based on your behavioral and emotional traits, tends to get in the way of good decision making.  When it comes to money, … Continue reading →

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Understanding Why You Invest as You Do – A Look at Your Financial Personality

Posted on April 24, 2013 by ajkeown

Use your brain, don’t act emotionally – that’s generally the advice given to individuals when they invest.  Unfortunately, it’s impossible to take your financial personality and your emotions out of investment decisions.  In Chapter 1 of Personal Finance, Turning Money … Continue reading →

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The Money Code and Your Financial Personality

Posted on April 17, 2013 by ajkeown

In Chapter 1 of Personal Finance, Turning Money into Wealth, we introduce Principle 9: Mind Games, Your Financial Personality, and Your Money.  That principle points out how behavioral biases can lead to big financial mistakes. In effect, your mind can … Continue reading →

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Class Discussion: Birth Order and Your Financial Personality

Posted on March 28, 2012 by ajkeown

Bankrate.com recently looked at the impact of birth order on personal finance in the article “How birth order can affect your finances.”  It takes an interesting look at how being the oldest, youngest, or somewhere in between can impact your … Continue reading →

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