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74K to 231K๐ Weekly cadenceยท18 episodesยทLast published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
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The curse of knowledge
May 8, 2026
27m 12s
Howard Marks: Navigating Crises - Creed, Preparation and Emotional Control
Apr 16, 2025
44m 54s
Dealing with Trumpcertainty
Mar 13, 2025
17m 34s
Room 101: Project Coldplay
Jan 23, 2025
8m 22s
Room 101: Performance fees - heads I win...???
Jan 15, 2025
8m 31s
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| 5/8/26 | ![]() The curse of knowledge | Send us Fan Mail ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซโฆ ...heard a client say, โIโm disappointed, you made that point too easy for everyone to understandโ. Unsurprisingly, anyone who works in the field of investment or consulting will have heard many complaints the other way around. You may have been the culprit, or maybe had to present with THAT colleague who is incredibly smart, but who struggles to get their point across to less sophisticated audiences. In this episode of Decision Nerds, Joe Wiggins and I u... | 27m 12s | ||||||
| 4/16/25 | ![]() Howard Marks: Navigating Crises - Creed, Preparation and Emotional Control | Send us Fan Mail Howard Marks โ navigating the crisis - creed, preparation and control What kind of mindset and organisational culture does it take to survive and to thrive in market turmoil? Letโs be frank, there are a vanishingly small number of people who have navigated multiples crises successfully and have something interesting and reflective to say it about it. One person who does is Howard Marks. Founder and Co-Chairman of Oaktree he is, for our (and Warren Buffetโs) money, one of ... | 44m 54s | ||||||
| 3/13/25 | ![]() Dealing with Trumpcertainty | Send us Fan Mail The Disruptor in Chiefโs blizzard of executive orders, tariffs and foreign policy positions and his propensity to change them is making life difficult for investors and clients. Things look and feel uncertain, perhaps more so than in living memory. In this bite size episode, we discuss the science and practicalities of dealing with uncertainty. The Electric shock study refernced in the discussion. | 17m 34s | ||||||
| 1/23/25 | ![]() Room 101: Project Coldplay | Send us Fan Mail As the wordly philosophers of Coldplay suggest, getting what you want, but not what you need, might leave you in need of fixing. Leaps in investment platform technology give investors more information, more choice and the ability to act more quickly and easily. We want that, but is it what we need? As Joe points out, many of the positive developments in tech are double-edge swords. He thinks from a behavioural perspective, now is one of the worst times ever to be an inv... | 8m 22s | ||||||
| 1/15/25 | ![]() Room 101: Performance fees - heads I win...??? | Send us Fan Mail Joe doesnโt like performance fees - but why? Are they innately problematic or just badly and perhaps cynically implemented in the mutual fund industry? In this bitesize episode, we get into alignment of interests, bad design and investor behaviour. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐? Performance fees are most often discussed in the context of alignment and risk sharing. Joe raises an interesting question - can they also be used to nudge investors away from unhelpful behavi... | 8m 31s | ||||||
| 1/8/25 | ![]() Room 101: Chartcrime? | Send us Fan Mail We all have things in our working lives that drive us insane. Anyone who regularly listens to the pod will know that there are a few subjects that consistently raise Joeโs blood pressure to unhealthy levelsโฆ In the interest of Joe's and our future guestโs wellbeing, we wanted to find a way of dealing with these issues productively. Our solution, Decision Nerds: Room 101 Room 101 is the torture chamber in George Orwellโs classic book, 1984. For those who cross its ... | 11m 47s | ||||||
| 9/11/24 | ![]() May Contain Lies... | Send us Fan Mail If youโve been around the block, you will likely have seen some eye-rolling use of evidence during meetings. Evidence can be used badly for many reasons; a misunderstanding of what conclusions can be drawn from it, or perhaps it has been cherry-picked to support a particular position. In this episode, we unpick these issues with Professor Alex Edmans of London Business School. Alex recently published a book, โMay Contain Liesโ, which discusses the methodological, psycho... | 48m 21s | ||||||
| 6/18/24 | ![]() Pants on fire | Send us Fan Mail Lying โ itโs something that all humans do. Most of the lies we tell are small and harmless. But deceptive behaviour in the investment industry lowers trust and increases costs and complexity. We are deceptive for many reasons and one of them is that we can get away with it. This is because, despite what we might believe, most of us are pretty terrible at spotting lying โ including highly experienced financial analysts. But what would happen if we all had access to AI-powered ... | 40m 52s | ||||||
| 4/23/24 | ![]() Underperformance - everyone's got a plan until they're hit in the face | Send us Fan Mail ๐๐ผ๐ ๐บ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ด๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ? 1. Hire a manager after a period of strong performance. 2. Watch in horror as you donโt experience that outcome, maybe the opposite. 3. Spend a huge amount of time and emotional labour deciding on whether your initial thesis was wrong, something has changed at the manager, or with market dynamics. 4. After sucking up a huge amount of governance time, decide to sack the manager. 5. Rinse and repeat with pot... | 38m 38s | ||||||
| 2/20/24 | ![]() The other F word | Send us Fan Mail Thinking and talking about failure can be tough, especially when itโs us whoโs failing. But itโs important for us as individuals and investment teams to find a way to do this in an effective manner that allows us to both learn and evolve. In this episode of Decisions Nerdsโฆ - Joe pits his inner Brian Blessed against an AI auto-editor - We examine Joeโs framework for thinking about errors around investment beliefs, processes and outcomes. - We then think abou... | 36m 18s | ||||||
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| 12/12/23 | ![]() Christmas behaviour | Send us Fan Mail We downed some eggnog and decided to record an impromptu Christmas special. We have a chat about how insights from behavioural science might help the festive holidays proceed more smoothly: ๐ Why Joe's team might think (in his own words) that heโs an โegotistical a*&holeโ. ๐ง A simple way to feel better about Christmas (but you might not like it). ๐ The nudges that retailers use to get us to buy. ๐ต Gift cards or cash as a present โ to co... | 22m 17s | ||||||
| 11/13/23 | ![]() Principled? Does power corrupt and absolute power corrupt absolutely? | Send us Fan Mail Following the publication of a new book, 'The Fund', Ray Dalio and Bridgewater have been getting attention for all the wrong reasons. The book alleges a toxic culture where the reality of day-to-day life doesnโt match that described in Dalioโs book, โPrinciplesโ. In this episode of Decision Nerds, we dive into the sludge and extract some key points that are relevant for organisations and teams. Key takeaways: #๐ญ ๐๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐ Itโs... | 16m 48s | ||||||
| 10/9/23 | ![]() Seeing the future | Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss how we can make better forecasts with Professor Paul Goodwin. We tackle everything from the techniques available, to human problems around understanding, bias and incentives. See the chapter headings for full details. Notes Philip Tetlock's book is Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction A paper that describes the key concepts can be found here. | 49m 52s | ||||||
| 8/8/23 | ![]() Regrette, je regrette beaucoup de choses | Send us Fan Mail Does fear of getting things wrong stop you from making decisions? If so, youโre not alone. Regret can have a profound impact on our choices. In this short episode, we unpack the challenges, discuss some solutions and use the timely case of thematic investment funds as a case in point. We tackle: The psychological nature of regret โ why it can be useful, but also harmful. How regret can impact the best and bright of us โ smarts and market knowledge ar... | 22m 37s | ||||||
| 6/27/23 | ![]() Lessons from Glastonbury | Send us Fan Mail A bitesize episode with some thoughts from this year's Glastonbury festival. We tackle: Lana Del Rey - the need to understand who's got the power (literally in this case) Van Halen reconsidered - from divas to behavioural gurus via brown M&Ms Elton John - the peak-end rule and what set lists can teach us about being remembered. | 8m 18s | ||||||
| 6/26/23 | ![]() Getting culture right - the perils of PowerPoint | Send us Fan Mail It is incredibly easy to be cynical when we hear businesses talk about culture. At one point or another, most of us have shuffled into a room with colleagues to experience a PowerPoint presentation on our firm's culture. They can often be (a) generic, anodyne and marketing-led, or (b) aspirational, unrealistic and not reflective of leadership and/or street-level behaviour. We often end up with some version of the caricatures above not through bad intentions, but because buil... | 1h 02m 46s | ||||||
| 5/20/23 | ![]() Diversity and Decisions: Things you donโt usually hear from a D&I advocateโฆ | Send us Fan Mail Our guest today, Tom Gosling, is a committed and thoughtful supporter of D&I. He's a practitioner turned academic who helps build bridges between researchers, policymakers and those at the coal face. He has an interesting take on some important strategic and practical D&I issues that often get no, or very little, air time. If you have any interest in D&I and how it impacts decisions, thereโs something here for you. In this episode, we discuss:... | 49m 08s | ||||||
| 5/4/23 | ![]() F&^% ups โ how they happen, how theyโre judged and how we can sort them | Send us Fan Mail F&^% ups โ how they happen, how theyโre judged and how we can sort them At some point in life, all of us will make some kind of toe-curling mistake. In our work lives, weโre going to make smaller ones, or have to manage or deal with colleagues' errors on an ongoing basis. Understanding how errors happen and how they can be managed is important. But we also want to think about how others judge us, it might not be in the way we want or expect. In this bite-size epi... | 16m 18s | ||||||
| 4/11/23 | ![]() Lessons from the Fund Manager Whisperer - getting people to listen and change | Send us Fan Mail All investment decision-makers need feedback to improve. The key question is how can we give feedback in a way that allows people to meaningfully engage with it and ultimately change unproductive behaviour. In this episode, we chat with Clare Flynn Levy, CEO of Essentia Analytics. The core of Essentia's business is using tech to help investors understand their behaviour. A key element of their work is getting investors to engage in a process that, by design... | 53m 52s | ||||||
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