Commentary on the role investor behavior plays in long-term investment success.
Published in Investor Behavior on February 14, 2012
In this review of Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman’s book, “Thinking Fast and Slow,” New York Times columnist John Wasik explains how investors frequently fail to act in their own best self interests and are consistently led astray by their own emotions and cognitive errors.
continue readingPublished in Investor Behavior, Market Timing on December 2, 2011
New York Times columnist, Ron Lieber, examines the hidden dangers lurking below the surface of an asset most investors view as being safe.
continue readingPublished in Investor Behavior on October 26, 2011
Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman suggests while the majority of professional stock-pickers sincerely believe they are experts, look like experts and act like experts, it’s just an illusion.
continue readingPublished in Investor Behavior on March 10, 2011
Is prevailing market sentiment a reliable predictor of future outcomes? Using an illustrated timeline, David Booth, the Chairman and CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors, chronicles U.S. stock market performance in four periods since World War II.
continue readingPublished in Investor Behavior, Market Timing on March 2, 2011
With enormous resources at their disposal, institutional investors—the so-called “smart money”—should have an advantage in identifying tomorrow’s winning fund managers…but do they?
continue readingPublished in Investor Behavior on January 28, 2011
University of Oregon psychologist and behavioral economist, Paul Slovic, offers valuable insight into the effects of investor psychology on investment performance.
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