The book by Italian strategist Felice Vatalaro opens a new frontier in asset planning, moving the conversation beyond profit into the realm of design, cognition, and personal sovereignty.
MILAN, ITALY AND LONDON, UK / ACCESS Newswire / September 10, 2025 / In a time when financial advice is increasingly automated and self-help investment guides flood the market with promises of wealth, a new book dares to change the entire conversation. Luxury Investment, the debut work by strategist and behavioral designer Felice Vatalaro, has just been released in digital and print editions, offering an unprecedented fusion of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and behavioral finance to rethink how individuals perceive, structure, and emotionally interact with their personal assets.

At first glance, the book seems to speak the language of finance. But behind its elegant minimalism lies something more subversive: a theory of mental architecture. Rather than teaching how to grow capital, Luxury Investment teaches how to reprogram one's relationship with capital - before numbers, before risk, before action.
"Wealth is not a result, it's a cognitive environment," Vatalaro states. "And in a world flooded with information, what determines your outcomes is not what you know, but how you are wired to interpret value."
Not Just Another Finance Manual
The book does not provide portfolios, forecasts, or comparative models. Instead, it walks the reader through conceptual errors, unconscious patterns, and deeply embedded illusions that often sabotage wealth creation. Drawing from more than a decade of experience in cognitive modeling, startup strategy, and high-net-worth consulting, Vatalaro has crafted a blueprint for those seeking to go beyond optimization - toward a personal reinvention of what wealth actually means.
Among the central themes of Luxury Investment:
The Autonomy Illusion: why most investors operate within frameworks that were never theirs to begin with.
Behavioral Legacy: how generational mindsets shape silent limits on financial decision-making.
Cognitive Leverage: how to design mental operating systems capable of navigating uncertainty and resisting external noise.
An AI-Driven Perspective on Human-Led Finance
One of the book's unique innovations lies in its integration of AI modeling with behavioral observation. Using language structures and predictive models, Vatalaro outlines how new-generation algorithms can map the emotional architecture of a person's wealth-related decisions.
This is not about robo-advisors. It's about using AI to understand the human - before entrusting them with models of risk and reward.
"Finance today has incredible tools to automate allocation," Vatalaro notes. "But what's missing is a model to automate introspection."
The result is a framework that's less about financial products and more about mental processes. In this sense, the book positions itself more as a philosophical intervention than a traditional how-to guide.
Industry Implications: A Disruptive Model for Advisors, Planners, and Private Bankers
The implications for the financial industry are significant. As wealth clients become more psychologically aware and less responsive to transactional pitches, professionals in private banking, family offices, and wealth consulting are being forced to evolve.
Luxury Investment offers a tool not just for clients, but for the industry itself - an opportunity to move from selling financial outcomes to facilitating cognitive redesign.
Already being discussed in closed circles of elite advisors and behavioral economists, the book is poised to become a reference point for the next wave of client engagement, particularly among high-sensitivity, high-net-worth individuals who reject the "hustle" tone of traditional finance.
About the Author
Felice Vatalaro is an Italian strategist and behavioral designer who has worked across Europe and the Middle East in cognitive consulting, startup building, and performance psychology. With a background in neuroscience-inspired systems and AI-powered profiling, his mission is to redefine the architecture of decision-making in contexts of complexity and personal transformation.
Luxury Investment is his first book - and a clear manifesto for what he calls "psychological wealth design."
Availability and Contact
Luxury Investment is now available worldwide via [Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books] and in select independent bookstores. Translation rights and media requests can be directed to:
www.felicevatalaro.com
Felice Vatalaro
FVGLOBAL GROUP
teamfelice@proton.me
Dubai
SOURCE: FVGLOBAL GROUP
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