Dr. Thomas Mathar - Financial Wellness vs. Financial Independence

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Dr. Thomas Mathar. Dr. Thomas Mathar, from Hamburg and now based in Edinburgh, heads up the Centre for Behavioural Research at Aegon UK. As a trained social anthropologist with additional training in behavioral economics, he researches how people can make better financial decisions. In Germany, he is known for his book Financial Wellbeing and appearances in media such as Stern and podcasts such as Alles auf Aktien. In the UK, he frequently speaks at financial conferences and is a highly regarded expert in his field. Tom (as he is known in the UK) is married and has two children.