Behavioural Finance: Insights into Irrational Minds and Markets James Montier
Publisher: Wiley

Jan 13, 2010 - Taking a somewhat broader view, the usual defense of financial markets is that they facilitate investment, facilitate growth, help to allocate resources to their most productive uses, and so on. Apr 4, 2013 - But when you get within earshot of this group, you realise something surprising: they are all talking about things like irrationality, randomised controlled trials, social norms and cognitive biases… The pub-goers in this He is a behavioural finance 'hobbyist', and a financial analyst by profession. Neal Cole has over 20 years' experience of working in market research and website optimization for some of the UK's largest financial services providers and online retailers. Are our The Behavioral Mind: Bad Is Stronger Than Good. Jul 12, 2009 - In the last decade, behavioral finance has started making inroads into corporate finance, looking at how managers in publicly traded firms behave and finding, to no surprise, that they exhibit the same frailties that we see with the investing public. Has the advance of all this behavioral stuff, behavioral finance, made you rethink anything? Most approaches to The fact that we are not rational in the economic sense doesn't imply that people are irrational, as this seems to indicate there is no logic or pattern to our behavior. It is by coming to recognize what leads to dead ends that we will be able to identify the sorts of insights that will have practical value. May 15, 2012 - Optimize Your Conversion With Insights From Behavioural Economics. As with all things in finance (such as the type of investor you are), there are shades of gray, but you can basically break down investing strategies into one of those two categories. Dec 29, 2013 - Are you an active or a passive investor? We were discussing the Financial sector (investors): understanding their own behaviour, perhaps trying to gain insight into how best to beat the market. Jan 24, 2014 - These are the people who said the product and market conditions are a given; now we just need to re-brand, re-position, re-package, re-message, re-target … re-whatever to get people to buy what we have. For the layman, people who don't know much about economic theory, is that the fundamental insight of the efficient market hypothesis—that you can't beat the market? Jul 3, 2010 - Unfortunately to go from that position to arguing that people who choose the second option are irrational and are being affected by some behavioural bias or other is a huge jump than can only be explained by using too many narcotics. May 23, 2012 - The 1990s bubble in Internet stocks—in which investors seemed to ignore critical information both in bidding stock prices up and slamming them back down again—was a classic example of seemingly irrational market behavior. On May 15, 2012 / by Neal Cole / 3 post by our friend Neal Cole. As Dan Ariely explains in his popular books people are often irrational in their decision making as they are heavily influenced by unconscious biases.