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Owen Rascovitch

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1951 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

And it's quite a unique way to tilt on behavioral investing.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

So that's an interesting – it's kind of the behavior gap, and we'll put a picture in the show notes of what it is, but it's effectively buy high, sell low, and then repeat until broke.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

And it's one of those things like, yeah, it's not until we have 2020 hindsight that we can realize that was a mistake.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

So we've kind of moved into this now, but –

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

What are some of the... I guess we've... What are some of the ways that people can combat these things, do you think?

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

I really like the idea of automating things.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

And I think some of the – particularly the online banks do a really good job of that, making it very simple to set up, say, BPAY transactions or direct deposits or whatever.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

Regular payments.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

And the problem is you just don't want to have too much, to make it too easy for yourself as well as overcomplicating it.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

A few others that...

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

I quite like, and these are very simple things that people can do, is just have a checklist.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

So do it when you're in a calm state, something that you can write down or you can just check the boxes off.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

For example, I have one and I just take it to my wife anytime I'm going to make an investment.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

And she's my BS filter, of course.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

Yep.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

So she just takes it and goes, yeah, but you didn't really think about this, so no.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

Yeah.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

Another one, really good one to do is just to give yourself time.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

So to set a rule, instead of say, if it is investment or whatever you're going to purchase, give yourself say three days.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

So say if it's a material purchase, let's say it's over 500 bucks.