The underlying theme of the stock market and the way it functions is that we are all rational actors in a rational world, acting on the very same publicly available information at the very same time. But the reality is that we are all irrational beings, living in an irrational world. We frequently do things that are against our best interests, such as selling off stocks during market crashes or worrying about cutting our spending only when we have plenty of money.

In this episode, Malcolm Ethridge is joined by Daniel Crosby, Chief Behavioral Officer at Orion Advisor Solutions, to discuss the ways our emotions often hurt us when it comes to managing our personal finances. Daniel and Malcolm discuss various techniques to protect yourself from acting on your impulses in times of financial stress, as well as their take on the true value financial advisors offer their clients in helping them to generate long term wealth.

Daniel Crosby discusses: 

• Recency bias and how it can affect our decision making as investors
  
• Financial life hacks designed to help you avoid your emotional impulses
  
• The role that extreme loneliness plays in our decision making process
  
• The importance of financial advisors and their value to clients beyond investment management
  
• And more
  

Resources: 

• The Standard Deviation Podcast
  
• The Laws of Wealth: Psychology and the secret to investing success
  
• The Intangible Benefits of Working with a Financial Advisor
  
• Study Finds Advisors add 2.88% in Value
  

Connect With Daniel Crosby:

• Linkedin: Daniel Crosby 
  
• Twitter: Daniel Crosby   
  

Connect With Malcolm Ethridge:

• The Tech Money Podcast 
  
• LinkedIn: Malcolm Ethridge
  
• Connect with Malcolm 
  
• @MalcolmOnMoney
  

About Our Guest:

Educated at Brigham Young and Emory Universities, Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist and behavioral finance expert who helps organizations understand the intersection of mind and markets. Dr. Crosby recently co-authored a New York Times Best-Selling book titled, Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management.

He also constructed the “Irrationality Index,” a sentiment measure that gauges greed and fear in the marketplace from month to month. His ideas have appeared in the Huffington Post and Risk Management Magazine, as well as his monthly columns for WealthManagement.com and Investment News. Daniel was named one of the “12 Thinkers to Watch” by Monster.com and a “Financial Blogger You Should Be Reading” by AARP. When he is not consulting around market psychology, Daniel enjoys independent films, fanatically following St. Louis Cardinals baseball, and spending time with his wife and two children.