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Is Behavioral Finance a Growth Industry? The subdiscipline of behavioral finance has gained ground over the last half-decade. The idea is simple: Investors are not as rational as traditional theory has assumed, and biases in their decision-making can have a cumulative effect on asset prices... |
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Clients Misbehavin' Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist at Princeton University, applies lessons from behavioral finance to client management and identifies several common mistakes individual investors are prone to make. |
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Half Full, and Then Some New research suggests that CFOs, like CEOs, can be confident to a fault. |
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Do Investors Make Rational Or Emotional Decisions? Behavioral finance looks to predict investor action. |
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From Visionary to Innovator Robert J. Shiller has often been described as a visionary. In recent years his vision of new financial markets has started to become a reality. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Behavioral Finance--Benefiting from Irrational Investors Far from acting in their own best interest, many individual and institutional investors are more inertial than logical when it comes to emptying their portfolios of unwanted shares. This passive behavior can have a significant effect on how companies make strategic financing decisions. |
AskMen.com
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Behavioral Economics The study of behavioral economics aims to understand how psychological phenomena like emotions and group dynamics influence economic decisions. Studies have found that people often make decisions that are not in their best interest |
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Recent Lessons From Behavioral Finance Don't look for logic in the way investors act, say these experts. |
The Motley Fool
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On CEOs and Overconfidence Contrary to popular belief, mergers don't always reward shareholders. |
On Wall Street
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Understanding and Guiding Client Behavior Financial professionals face the complex challenge of effectively responding to the financial and emotional needs of their clients, while managing their own emotional reactions to the current turbulent markets. |
Investment Advisor
February 2007
Robert F. Keane |
Catching up with... Lew Altfest An interview with the associate professor of finance and author of Personal Financial Planning, which is already being adopted in college classrooms around the country, about Total Portfolio Management. |
Financial Planning
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Donna Mitchell |
Wealth Management Psych Out Behavioral finance is a field that is gaining traction among financial advisors. It is a full-fledged discipline that offers tools serious wealth management firms are using to understand and serve high-net-worth clients. |
The Motley Fool
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Better Decisions, Better Returns An interview with Michael Mauboussin, chief investment strategist at Legg Mason and author of More Than You Know about the decision-making biases that are chronically hurting your portfolio, and how to combat them. |
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July 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
Say Yes to Dr. No? New research suggests that CFOs are an essential counterweight to optimistic CEOs. |
Registered Rep.
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Human Behavior A discipline combining economics and psychology, behavioral finance turns one basic tenet of economic theory -- that people make rational decisions when given the right information -- on its head. |
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Crossing From The Ivory Tower To The Office Tower Knowing what an investor wants and how his or her feelings color decision-making is becoming more crucial in the increasingly competitive world of attracting and retaining high-net-worth clients. |
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September 2008
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Running With Scissors For an investment committee, there is nothing more perilous than the selection and termination of active managers. These managers directly affect investment returns, and, despite everyone's best efforts, the decision to change them can result in costly mistakes. |
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Kate O'Sullivan |
Business Outlook Survey Finance executives entered the summer doldrums early this year as their optimism about the U.S. economy approached a five-year low. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 7, 2004
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What Drives Supply Chain Behavior? Surprise: Managers are not always rational decision makers. In this interview, Harvard Business School professors Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson discuss how human behavior affects supply chain coordination. |
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The Behavior Profile Are you a perceptive financial advisor? Being able to identify your client's financial decision-making and investment style is important in communicating effectively with them. |
The Motley Fool
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This Weakness Could Ruin Your Portfolio Overconfidence can ruin everything in investing decisions, and business decisions, too. |
Investment Advisor
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Susan Hirshman |
The Wealth Advisor: Profiting by Behavior Competition for affluent clients is fiercer than ever. To attract their attention, you need to stand out from the crowd. You must have better insights about your clients and the markets and a better process to deliver your services. In other words, you have to be a wealth manager. |
Fast Company
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Ian Wylie |
Prophet Among Pinstripes James Montier is a financial heretic. And among London's banking set, he's winning plenty of converts. |
CFO
May 8, 2006
Don Durfee |
What's the Boss Worth? CFOs weigh in on executive compensation. |
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Advisors Beware: The Downside of Behavioral Finance A superficial understanding of behavioral finance can be counterproductive |
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The Business of Behavioral Economics Leslie John and Michael Norton explore how behavioral economics can help people overcome bad habits and change for the better. |
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Donna Mitchell |
The Pioneer Richard Thaler, now a professor at the University of Chicago, along with cognitive psychologists Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky, pioneered and shaped the field of behavioral economics thirty years ago. |
The Motley Fool
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Make This the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You Considering a recessionary economy a good thing may sound ludicrous, but this scary period may be the best thing that has ever happened to you -- if you choose to take advantage of it. |
The Motley Fool
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Timothy M. Otte |
Behaving Like a Fool The debate between efficient markets and behavioral finance continues to rage in academic circles. Here are some of the key differences in the two approaches to the movements of stock prices. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2006
John J. Bowen |
The Enemy Within Use the principles of behavioral finance to keep your clients -- and yourself -- from making costly investment mistakes. |
The Motley Fool
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The Perils of Investor Overconfidence Although dot-com mania is now history, these timeless lessons about investor overconfidence deserve to be repeated. Too much of a good thing can wreak havoc on your portfolio. |
AskMen.com
Andrea Ayres-Deets |
The Secret To Confidence If you believe you are better than others, chances are those around you will believe it as well, even if they have absolutely no evidence to support this claim. |
BusinessWeek
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Lawrence E. Mitchell |
The Tyranny Of The Market An economy grounded in rapid-fire finance will self-destruct over the long-haul. |
CFO
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Scott Leibs |
Fresh Start A break from CFO duties can be rejuvenating, but executive recruiters warn that too much time out of the workforce can hurt your options if you want to get back into finance. |
