Behavioural Finance

A detailed guide to overcoming the most frequently encountered psychological pitfalls of investing. Bias, emotion, and overconfidence are just three of the many behavioral traits that can lead investors to lose money or achieve lower returns. Behavioral finance, which recognizes that there is a psychological element to all investor decision-making, can help you overcome this obstacle.

In The Behavioral Investor, psychologist and asset manager Dr. Daniel Crosby examines the sociological, neurological, and psychological factors that influence our investment decisions and sets forth practical solutions for improving both returns and behavior. Listeners will be treated to the most comprehensive examination of investor behavior to date and will leave with concrete solutions for refining decision-making processes, increasing self-awareness, and constraining the fatal flaws to which most investors are prone.

Whether you're mired in loss aversion, suffer from anchoring bias, or you're sorting your portfolio into various mental accounts, investor biases will prevent you from maximizing your wealth. But you can learn to challenge your own biases and prevent costly investment errors! In Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio, veteran investor and advisor Michael M. Pompian delivers a thorough grounding in the most important investor biases you're likely to encounter when making crucial investment decisions.

Break Free from the Saver Mindset, Unlock Your Best Years, and Stop Hoarding Joy If you’ve accumulated a well-funded retirement account and ever hesitated to book the trip, buy the toy, or splurge on the once-in-a-lifetime experience because “it’s not the responsible thing to do”—this book is your permission slip and your battle cry. You did the hard part. You saved. You sacrificed. You made it to retirement with a nest egg and a bucket list. But if your portfolio is growing while your best years are shrinking, something’s gone very wrong. This is not another book about ...

From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential audio reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work. An easy-to-follow style, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text throw light on the applications of economics, making them relatable through everyday examples and concerns.

Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth - and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.

Unlock the Power of Behavioral Finance and Make Smarter Investment Decisions! Investing isn't just about numbers and charts—it's deeply influenced by human psychology. The Psychology of Investing: Overcoming Biases and Making Smarter Decisions reveals the hidden psychological forces that shape your financial choices and offers strategies to harness the power of behavioral finance. This comprehensive guide provides the tools and insights you need to enhance your investment strategy and make more rational, informed decisions.What You’ll Discover Inside: Understanding Cognitive Biases: ...

All over the world, public officials are using the behavioral sciences to protect the environment, promote employment and economic growth, reduce poverty, and increase national security. In this book, Cass R. Sunstein, breaks new ground with a deep yet highly listenable investigation into the ethical issues surrounding nudges, choice architecture and mandates, addressing such issues as welfare, autonomy, self-government, dignity, manipulation and the constraints and responsibilities of an ethical state.

Applying powerful behavioral finance concepts, Stop. Think. Invest. provides a framework for identifying personal biases and avoiding mistakes that can cost them big profits. Based on the author's extensive research and 100 key behavioral finance concepts, this guide provides a winning 12-step process you can use to successfully manage your trading and investing for long-term success.

The Behavioral Portfolio examines the risks of both stock and bond portfolios from historically comprehensive perspective to help illustrate that, based on market history, the current approach could lead to a break-down of clients’ portfolios and our practices. It then lays out an all-seasons approach for investing that both embraces optimism and addresses contingencies of significant risk events.

A New York Times bestselling author and leading expert on market risk argues that seismic shifts in the global economy will trigger a multi-trillion-dollar migration of wealth, tracing the fateful decisions that created this crisis—and outlines new rules of investing for the forward-thinking.

Professor Meir Statman, established thought leader in behavioral finance, explores how life well-being, the overarching aim of individuals in the third generation of behavioral finance, is underpinned by financial well-being, and how life well-being extends beyond financial well-being to family, friendship, religion, health, work, and education.

What if everything you know about getting rich is wrong—not because it’s false, but because it’s too fast? The Compound Code is a brutally practical blueprint for building wealth not with hype, but with habits. Through these unshakable laws grounded in behavioral finance, market history, and real-world case studies, this book reveals how true financial success is earned slowly, quietly, and with relentless discipline. Unlike most financial advice that promises shortcuts or hacks, this isn’t about beating the market. It’s about outlasting it. From the silent power of time to the ...

This essential collection brings together two powerful guides, Master Your Money Mind and Master Behavioral Finance, creating a roadmap to financial mastery. These books uniquely bridge the understanding of human psychology, practical financial strategies, and comprehensive investment knowledge. Master Your Money Mind contains the core of personal financial challenges, from managing debt to understanding income allocation and developing resilience in the face of financial obstacles. By breaking down practical rules like the 50/30/20 guideline, compounding principles, and effective debt ...

Spread through the public in the form of popular stories, ideas can go viral and move markets - whether it's the belief that tech stocks can only go up or that housing prices never fall. Whether true or false, stories like these - transmitted by word of mouth, by the news media, and increasingly by social media - drive the economy by driving our decisions about how and where to invest, how much to spend and save, and more. But despite the obvious importance of such stories, most economists have paid little attention to them. Narrative Economics sets out to change that.

“Scale” has become a favored buzzword in the startup world. But scale isn't just about accumulating more users or capturing more market share. It's about whether an idea that takes hold in a small group can do the same in a much larger one. Translating an idea into widespread impact, says University of Chicago economist John A. List, depends on one thing only: whether it can achieve “high voltage”—the ability to be replicated at scale. In The Voltage Effect, List explains that scalable ideas share a common set of attributes, while any number of attributes can doom an unscalable idea.

According to most economics textbooks, human beings are super-rational creatures who know what is in their own best interests and always act accordingly. When making a decision to purchase, the rational consumer would not buy something on the spur of the moment, or on the recommendation of a friend. Sound realistic?

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are being marketed as the pinnacle of financial modernization—promising convenience, inclusion, and streamlined payments. But beneath the glossy mockups and cheerful user-experience demos lies a far more sinister agenda: the total overhaul of money itself into an instrument of centralized control. In The Dark Future of CBDCs, seasoned analyst Alex Morgan—sardonic, blunt, and uncompromising—peels back the veneer of progress to reveal how programmable currency can be weaponized to monitor, manipulate, and ultimately dictate every facet of your ...

I wish I had read this book before I started my crypto trading journey Many crypto Traders master fundamental and technical analysis, yet still suffer devastating losses. Why? Because they ignore the most critical factor in trading success—emotional and psychological discipline. In The Psychology of Crypto Trading, you'll uncover the hidden forces that drive impulsive decisions, revenge trading, and emotional burnout. This book is written from firsthand experience—after losing money despite mastering technical strategies, I realized that psychological resilience is the missing piece for...

Even those who are “good with money” can have trouble making money decisions. Managing financial success takes a certain set of skills, but managing money for a successful life requires a different approach. Most of us are driven to strive for money, but that strife never seems to end. In a mindful approach to money, we awaken to self-awareness in our relationship with it, can distinguish like-minded professionals who have our best interests at heart, and fully achieve a well-planned balance of the pursuit of money and happiness. With The Mindful Money Mentality book and workbook, you ...