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Investor Behavior [RSS]

Commentary on the role investor behavior plays in long-term investment success.


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Learning to Mistrust Your Financial Instincts

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.

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The Hidden Risks of Safety

New York Times columnist, Ron Lieber, examines the hidden dangers lurking below the surface of an asset most investors view as being safe.

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Confidence and the Illusion of Validity

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.

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The Current Aftershock

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.

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Hiring and Firing Decisions of the so-called “Smart Money”

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?

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Behavioral Problems of Adhering to a Decision Policy

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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