Why All Investors Are Vulnerable to ‘Correlation Neglect’

Feb 17, 2026 / By Knowledge@Wharton.com
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New research from Wharton’s Jessica Wachter explores a behavioral phenomenon that causes investors to treat information as independent when it is actually correlated.

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