Personal routes into behavioural finance

Purpose: The paper aims to provide the individual routes of the authors into behavioural finance in order to introduce the special issue. Design/methodology/approach: The paper provides the background to the authors' personal route into behavioural finance. Findings: The paper highlights general themes of development and influence of behavioural finance and relationships with practice and other areas of academic finance. Originality/value: The paper offers the perspectives of the authors on how they feel the research area of behavioural finance will develop in the future