Serving the Needs of Aging Investors

Professor Samanez-Larkin addresses what we thought we knew, what we know now, and what we can do about protecting the financial well being and reducing the fraud susceptibility of aging investors. He further discusses the front-line neuroscience that is changing how we understand the issues facing senior investors at the Senior Investors Forum on Serving the Needs of Our Aging Investors in Chicago hosted by SIFMA.

Lab research highlighted in APS Observer

Lab research highlighted in APS Observer

Many of the most influential financial decision makers in our society from business to politics happen to be middle-aged. Is there some sort of peak of financial reason in the fifties? Recent research in economics, psychology, and neuroscience suggests that there may be.

White-matter pathways affect decision making as we age

White-matter pathways affect decision making as we age

A brain-mapping study, published in the April 11 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, has found that people’s ability to make decisions in novel situations decreases with age and is associated with a reduction in the integrity of two specific white-matter pathways that connect an area in the cerebral cortex called the medial prefrontal cortex with two other areas deeper in the brain.