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This is part two of our response to the FCA’s Call for Input on how to apply behavioural finance to help people make engaged investment choices more comfortably and confidently, and what role regulations can play in helping that to happen.

This is the introduction to a series of posts on our response to the FCA’s Call for Input on how to apply behavioural finance to help people make engaged investment choices more comfortably and confidently, and what role regulations can play in helping that to happen.

Do not tell people how to behave. Predict how they're going to behave and plan appropriate preventative action. Use a solution that is psychological, preventative, personal, perpetual, and planned for.

People buy stories, not investments. Without a supporting framework of fairytale-esque familiarity, diversification leads to discomfort. If diversification causes distress, it ceases to be such an obviously smart idea.

Accounting for an investor's time horizon needs a rethink now that investments are no longer closely tied to singular investment objectives.