Benjamin Kelly

Behavioural and Macro Economist
Independent

Benjamin is a behavioural finance/decision making specialist who provides expertise to asset managers, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds on their investment processes, specifically on how cognitive biases impact the investment process and designing the tools and strategies to remove them. Previously, he was a macroeconomist within the BlackRock Investment Institute focusing on long term investable trends and was also responsible for leading the group’s behavioral finance research.

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Thriving In The Future FX Landscape – 15th September 2016

Thursday, February 9th, 2017

10:20 Inspirational Guest Speaker: The Mind Can Help Or Hinder Success - How Can You Train It To Make The Best Trading And Investment Choices?

Benjamin is an Economist within the BlackRock Investment Institute, a global platform that leverages BlackRock's global expertise to generate insights that augment the firm's ability to create a better financial future for their clients. Within this group, Dr. Kelly provides expertise to BlackRock's portfolio managers and the firm's clients in the field of behavioural finance, specifically how cognitive biases can impact investment decision making and solutions to ameliorate them from the investment decision process.

How can behavioural finance hold out the prospect of a better understanding of financial market behaviour and scope for investors to make better investment decisions?
How are leading financial firms implementing the tenets of behavioural finance to improve their performance?
How an understanding of the nature of our all too human flaws can help us invest better