Greg B Davies

New site just launched 🍷
👉 pourbetterdecisions.co.uk

Pour Better Decisions blends behavioural science and wine tasting to show how context shapes the choices we make.

A few sessions already booked before Christmas — still time to mix CPD with your festive cheer.

#BehaviouralScience #WineTasting

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🎉 Exciting news!

🧠 The Art of Behavioural Investing — now live!

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Ingenious research by @dorsaamir.bsky.social & @chazfirestone.bsky.social suggests (well frankly it really *convincingly shows* 😎) that the Müller-Lyer illusion is not culturally determined, but rooted deep within us (and not even optical): https://buff.ly/40PxEOL
TL;DR:🧵 https://buff.ly/40PsQJ2

The rise of plant poaching: how a craze for succulents is driving a new illegal trade In the wilds of South Africa’s Northern Cape, poaching ‘green diamonds’ has become an almost irresistible temptation

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🚀 The Art of Behavioural Investing – Coming Soon!

Excited to announce The Art of Behavioural Investing, a new online course created in partnership with 42courses to help investors overcome the psychological biases that can affect their financial decisions.

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Greg Davies on LinkedIn: 5 Ways Lifestyle Funds are Not Fit for Purpose – Oxford Risk Blog 🚨 5 Reasons Lifestyle Funds Are No Longer Fit for Purpose 🚨 Once hailed as a "solution" for investors, lifestyle funds are showing their age. Check out my…

5 Reasons Lifestyle Funds Are No Longer Fit for Purpose

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Beware the dangers of data Numbers have an authority that disguises their flaws

Beware the dangers of data
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from The Economist

Britons have ‘lowest appetite’ for stock market investing in the G7 UK savers trail US and several European nations

Britons have ‘lowest appetite’ for stock market investing in the G7

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Beautifully sunny frosty day for a swim. Air temp 3c; water just over 6c; 600m.

2035: An Allocator Looks Back Over the Last 10 Years Well, sitting here in the year 2035 and looking back at our endowment’s returns for the last decade is not a pleasant task. World markets have been subpar and our performance relative to world markets...

2035: An Allocator Looks Back Over the Last 10 Years - Cliff Asness

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#SoundSeeker

Midnight Mass at @stpaulscathedral.bsky.social

AI’s assault on our intellectual property must be stopped Writers should not have to shoulder the burden of ‘opting out’ from companies stealing their work

AI’s assault on our intellectual property must be stopped

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The employee awards for 2024
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from The Economist

I might have to sadly concede this point - many also seem surprisingly bothered about Gregg Wallace…

Though I suspect both those camps were tiny in comparison to the predominant yawn-we’ve-got-much-better-things-to-get-worked-up-about camp?

Sir Christèmas

Tis the season … to avoid tired carols and listen to more interesting contemporary Xmas fare. Here Sir Christèmas by William Mathias (1971)

#SoundSeeker

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Sang The Messiah this evening at @stpaulscathedral.bsky.social - alongside my daughter for the first time! #girlchoristers #ProudDad #SoundSeeker

A deep dive into the story behind Handel’s ‘Messiah’ Charles King’s stories of the people involved in the music’s creation make for a fascinating exploration of the era’s politics, economics and culture

A deep dive into the story behind Handel’s ‘Messiah’

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EXAUDI Records Chromatic Renaissance Leading UK based vocal ensemble EXAUDI records its ground-breaking and internationally successful Chromatic Renaissance programme

I recently became a trustee of EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, and we’re raising funds to record groundbreaking 16th-century microtonal music - never recorded before!

Very few choirs are capable of performing this complex music a cappella.

Please help this happen!

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Become a Chorister at St Paul's Cathedral YouTube video by St Paul's Cathedral

Captures it beautifully!

Somehow my whole family made it into this … except me 😂

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Are investment platforms delivering sufficiently on their purpose?

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Clouds Resavoir · Resavoir · Song · 2019

#SoundSeeker #SonicInspiration #DailyResonance

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EXAUDI Records Chromatic Renaissance Leading UK based vocal ensemble EXAUDI records its ground-breaking and internationally successful Chromatic Renaissance programme

I recently became a trustee of EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, and we’re raising funds to record groundbreaking 16th-century microtonal music - never recorded before!

Very few choirs are capable of performing this complex music a cappella.

Please help this happen!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/143...

How Should Risk Tolerance Assessments Differ Between Accumulation and Decumulation? – Oxford Risk Blog Since the publication of the FCA’s Thematic Review into Retirement Income, one topic has dominated our conversations with clients: do we need a dedicated Risk Tolerance assessment that focuses on decu...

How Should Risk Tolerance Assessments Differ Between Accumulation and Decumulation?

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I seem to have stayed on your Finance one from 1st attempt, but not stuck on JDM after 2 attempts … Bluesky may be trying to tell me something about my place in the world 😂

The role of financial personality in retirement income planning | PA Adviser Securing an income is no-longer purely a mathematical calculation, writes Oxford Risk's Greg B Davies

Securing an income is no-longer purely a mathematical calculation

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No prob! Thanks for the valuable public service!

👋 yes please 🙏🏻

Seems good value tbh 🤷‍♂️