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Battling Your Brain: How Loss Aversion Hurts Investors

Human beings are prone to a variety of behaviors that make them bad investors, and in an article for The Economic Times, Vivek Kaul looks at a major one: “loss aversion”. First identified and named by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, loss aversion is a phenomenon in which “people tend to base their decisions [...]

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