Carl Richards, a financial adviser and director of investor education at BAM ALLIANCE, explores the role that emotions play in financial decisions. He explains the so-called behavior gap — the distance between what we should do and what we actually do when it comes to decisions involving money — and discusses how financial advisers can become better advisers to their clients.
This episode of the Take 15 Series was originally released on 26 June 2013.
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