Recency bias is the tendency for people to overweight new information or events, projecting them into the future while ignoring long-term evidence. This bias causes many investors to engage in ...

This is the ninth article in the Behavioral Finance and Macroeconomics series, exploring the effect behavior has on markets and the economy as a whole and how advisors who understand this relationship ...

Recency bias is believing what occurred in the recent past will continue to occur in the future. Investors consistently fall victim to this bias. It's the main contributor to the complacency we see ...

Recency bias is a behavioral finance principle that can cost investors money. It causes people to rely on recent events, such as a steep drop in the stock market, when making future choices. The ...

"Shark Week" is an annual block of TV programming on Discovery. It runs July 23 to July 29 this year. Perhaps the most famous shark — the fictional great white from the 1975 Steven Spielberg summer ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'm accompanying these with an image that helped inspire the launch of a new MediaPost publication -- the Planning & Buying Insider-- and which I hope ...