The Little Book of Behavioral Investing How not to be your own worst enemy

by Montier, James

• ISBN13: 9780470686027
• ISBN10: 0470686022
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-26
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Bias, emotion, and overconfidence are just three of the many behavioral traits that can lead investors to lose money or achieve lower returns. Montier takes readers through some of the most important behavioral challenges and explains how to overcome them.

Author Biography

James Montier is a member of GMO's asset allocation team. Prior to that, he was the co-Head of Global Strategy at Société Générale and has been the top-rated strategist in the annual Thomson Extel survey for most of the last decade. Montier is the author of three market-leading books, Behavioral Finance: Insights into Irrational Minds and Markets, Behavioral Investing: A Practitioners Guide to Applying Behavioral Finance, and Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment. He is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Durham and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Montier has been described as a maverick, an iconoclast, and an enfant terrible by the press.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: This Is a Book About You

In the Heat of the Moment

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Market?

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Why Does Anyone Listen to These Guys?

The Folly of Forecasting

Information Overload

Turn off That Bubblevision!

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

In the Land of the Perma-Bear and the Perma-Bull

The Siren Song of Stories

This Time Is Different

Right for the Wrong Reason, or Wrong for the Right Reason

The Perils of ADHD Investing

Inside the Mind of a Lemming

You Gotta Know When to Fold Them

Process, Process, Process

Conclusion: The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions

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