Investor Behavior: The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing by H. Kent Baker, Victor Ricciardi

Investor Behavior: The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing H. Kent Baker, Victor Ricciardi ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 640
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9781118492987

Aug 24, 2012 - Our findings support a string of prior research in behavioral finance that suggests that investors are often driven by their emotions to make choices that are not optimal for their financial well-being. This may be in part Well, the investment choices we observed were actually consistent with several psychological patterns that make sense in many contexts, just not with stocks. Apr 10, 2013 - Greetings, As a student of my industry, I have spent much time over the years learning about human emotions, investor behavior, or what we call behavioral finance; simply defined as 'psychology and the mistakes we make with our money'. This Library of Congress There is widespread financial illiteracy in the U.S. May 12, 2010 - The science that studies these psychological aspects of financial decision-making is behavioral finance. When markets become as volatile and as confusing as they've been, even the most patient investor begins to question their current investment plan. Jun 7, 2011 - The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investor education site, investor.gov that includes a comprehensive summary of what we've learned over the last 30 years about how we investors behave and the mistakes we make. €Buy high, Sell Low” The Chicago Financial Planner, (March 1, 2011). We define behavioral Yet this field is so important to investment planning that it's worth a review. A study of Dutch investors finds that people with low financial literacy are less likely to invest in stocks than those who are literate.