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For all the talk about how political and media bias distort people’s perceptions of current events, another kind of bias may have an even greater impact: Recency bias. Put simply, recency bias is the ...

From an underdog priced at a heavy discount, Oracle is now emerging as a leader in the cloud with a stock that is priced accordingly. I show why many investors were falling victims to recency bias and ...

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 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 ...

Advisors consider “recency” bias one of the most pernicious examples of biases affecting their clients’ decision-making, according to a new study from Charles Schwab Investment Management. The “BeFi ...