Why Investors Look Too Much at Returns

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Despite regulatory efforts to improve the transparency of financial product costs, investors consistently underweight costs and overlook past performance. In plain language: investors attach too much importance to past returns and too little to investment costs. In a new study by Kenneth Khoo and his colleagues, webcam-based eye-tracking technology is used to examine how manipulating the visual relevance of costs influences investment decisions.…