Seven tips to stick to investment resolutions

Seven tips to stick to investment resolutions

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Barclays head of behavioural investment philosophy Greg Davies gives seven insights on how to help clients be better, more consistent investors.

The New Year is always a time for making resolutions in pursuit of improved behaviour. However, in investing it can often appear that there is widespread disagreement on what constitutes 'good' behaviour. Should one invest more or less? Invest now, or wait for more certain times? To help with constructing sensible investing resolutions to follow, we have gone back to fundamentals to extract what we believe are seven core truths that all investors can subscribe to. Of course these are broad principles, and there may be odd exceptions, but build your resolutions around these, and you ca...

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