Become a more strategic and successful investor by identifying the biases impacting your decision making. In Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio, acclaimed investment advisor and author Michael M. Pompian delivers an insightful and thorough guide to countering the negative effect of cognitive and behavioral biases on your financial decisions. You’ll learn about the “Big Five” behavioral biases and how they’re reducing your returns and leading to unwanted and unnecessary costs in your portfolio. Designed for investors who are serious about maximizing their gains, in this book you’ll discover how to: ● Take control of your decision-making—even when challenging markets push greed and fear to intolerable levels ● Reflect on how to make investment decisions using data-backed and substantiated information instead of emotion and bias ● Counter deep-seated biases like loss aversion, hindsight and overconfidence with self-awareness and hard facts ● Identify your personal investment psychology profile, which you can use to inform your future financial decision making Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio was created for individual investors, but will also earn a place in the libraries of financial advisors, planners and portfolio managers who are determined to counteract the less principled and data-driven aspects of their decision making.
Read and do not stop until you are one of very few magicians." —Arnold S. Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer Martingale Asset Management "I wish this book had been available a decade ago; by understanding behavioral biases, ...
This book is about teaching investors how to manage their investor behavior so they can build better portfolios.
This book provides an outstanding road map for understanding our individual behavioral biases, embracing our unique investor personality, and allocating our portfolios to capitalize on our individual strengths.
This book: Shows investors and financial advisors how to either moderate or adapt to behavioral biases, in order to improve investment results and identifies "the best practical allocation" for investment portfolios.
Behavioral finance presented in this book is the second-generation of behavioral finance.
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When this is combined with the misconception that active management is unable to generate superior returns, the typical emotional investor leaves hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars on the table during their investment ...
Based on the author’s extensive research and 100 key behavioral finance concepts, this guide provides a winning 12-step process you can use to successfully manage your trading and investing for long-term success, including: Begin the ...
In The Little Book of Behavioral Investing, expert James Montier takes you through some of the most important behavioral challenges faced by investors.
This book takes readers through the core topics and issues as well as the latest trends, cutting-edge research developments, and real-world situations.