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Owen Rascovitch

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2532 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

But the third one, which I believe overrules everything else, is this behavioural edge.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

And you and what you and the team do at Sixpack is very interesting in this respect.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

I think this is where you personally and as an organization can add a lot of value beyond just the simple analytics because you've got computers that can do the analytics.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

You've got the access to the same information everyone else has.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

So what's your advantage?

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

And I think if you can incorporate the behavioral aspect, how you can teach your clients, I think that's a huge advantage for you.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

when they go to make a trade or to sell or something like that, you can actually prompt them and say, hey, if you do this, this is the tax outcome.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

This is likely what you're feeling.

Australian Finance Podcast
Expert Guest: Ted Richards

And it's simply because the computer can run an algorithm over your decision-making effectively and see what thousands of other people have done before you and then analyze what the expected outcome is.

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.