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The blog below is part of our 10th anniversary celebration at DataPoints. Firm Name: Radix Financial Year Founded: 2015 Firm Focus: Investment Management for global high-net-worth families Assessment used: Investor Profile RTQ How has your firm benefited from implementing assessments or other aspects of financial psychology? Using assessments allows us to intentionally pivot the focus of our meetings away from performance or benchmark conversations and toward goals and actions we can control. What’s the most significant …
In the annals of DataPoints, 2025 was a year of change and growth. We refined our products and company around providing the best behavioral assessments to the financial services industry. None of these could have been possible without the support of our customers, partners, and friends. In case you missed some of our significant milestones, here’s what we’ve been up to over the past twelve months: Launched Money Means, designed to help advisors and …
Five Investor Personality Factors: Stable Risk Attitudes What components contribute to the unique way we make investing decisions? While many factors contribute to our investing choices, the five investing personality factors below are what comprise risk attitudes, also known as psychological risk tolerance. These factors are stable characteristics that do not change much over time. Since they are stable, we can anticipate what we might do based on our personality profile measured at a given time. Investing …
Some Clients Feel Fear, Anxiety, and Worry More Than Others The tendency to feel worry, fear, and anxiety is normally distributed. Practically, this means that some of your clients will tend to experience these negative emotions more frequently than others, regardless of your efforts to help them become “fearless” investors, budgeters, etc. We refer to the tendency to feel negative emotions in an investing context as volatility composure, and it is related to neuroticism (also …
Article Title: Re-Examining the Experiential Advantage in Consumption: A Meta-Analysis and Review Publication: Journal of Consumer Research Authors: Evan Weingarten, Joseph K. Goodman Citation: Weingarten, E., & Goodman, J. K. (2020). Re-examining the experiential advantage in consumption: A meta-analysis and review. Journal of Consumer Research, 47 (6), 855–877. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaa047 Premise Previous research has demonstrated that consumers experience an experiential advantage when they buy experiences rather than material goods. The authors (Weingarten & Goodman, 2020) completed …