Greg Davies - The Way Forward for Behavioral Finance

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Greg Davies, Head of Behavioral Finance at Oxford Risk. Greg is a specialist in applied behavioral finance, decision science, impact investing and financial well being. He founded the banking world’s first behavioral finance team at Barclays in 2006, which he led for a decade. In 2017 he joined Oxford Risk to lead the development of behavioral decision support software to help people make the best possible financial decisions. Greg holds a PhD in Behavioral Decision Theory from Cambridge; has held academic affiliations at UCL, Imperial College and Oxford; and is author of Behavioral Investment Management.

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Greg Davies, Head of Behavioral Finance at Oxford Risk. Greg is a specialist in applied behavioral finance, decision science, impact investing and financial well being. 

He founded the banking world’s first behavioral finance team at Barclays in 2006, which he led for a decade. In 2017 he joined Oxford Risk to lead the development of behavioral decision support software to help people make the best possible financial decisions. Greg holds a PhD in Behavioral Decision Theory from Cambridge; has held academic affiliations at UCL, Imperial College and Oxford; and is author of Behavioral Investment Management.

Tune in to hear:

  • Relative to all the other behavioral experts out there, what stands out about Greg and his work? How did he arrive at this unique point of emphasis? 

  • How has Behavioral Finance come full circle in recent years? 

  • What have been the biggest shifts in Behavioral Finance in the past decade? Also, how does he anticipate it might change in the decade to come?

  • What can Behavioral Finance teach us about risk and how widely implemented are these learnings in the field today?

  • How does Greg think about the problem of multiple risk preferences within a household? 

  • What is Greg’s understanding of the role of emotion in financial decision making? When is it useful and when is it not?

  • Where does Greg see Behavioral Science intersecting with AI as we move forward in finance?

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