Paul Nixon

18 Nov 2020

Don’t trust your gut (and focus on the end goal)

By Staff Writer

By: Paul Nixon, Head of Technical Marketing and Behavioural Finance at Momentum Investments Following our instincts for investments often does not serve us well. The effects of fear and greed on investment decisions and returns are often reflected in the form of a ‘behaviour tax’. A behaviour tax is a lower investment return as a...

14 Oct 2020

Do we sometimes suffer from market dyslexia?

By Staff Writer

By: Paul Nixon, head of technical marketing and behavioural finance at Momentum Investments It is estimated that up to a staggering one in ten South Africans suffer from dyslexia. A common side effect of dyslexia is that words and even numbers drift into and out of focus, which of course results in severe challenges to...

04 Jul 2019

Helping South Africans close the behaviour gap

By Janice Roberts

Investors are exposed to an emotional rollercoaster which climbs with the exuberance that bull markets provide, and comes crashing down with panic as markets turn to bearish sentiment. Acting on these emotions, however, has been proven to culminate in an actual cost over time in the form of lower returns. This cost is commonly referred...