Wiley Finance- Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio A Navigation Guide for Building Wealth

PRAISE FOR BEHAVIORAL FINANCE AND YOUR PORTFOLIO

“Personality is linked to investors’ cognitive errors, including overconfidence and emotions such as regret. Michael Pompian’s work contributes greatly to our understanding of investor behavior as he exposes these important insights into investor psychology.”
—Meir Statman, Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University; author, What Investors Really Want

“Michael Pompian brings something new to the field of behavioral finance books. By combining insights into our fundamental cognitive and emotional biases and investor personality types, he provides concrete, practical action steps to avoid making big mistakes. In classic Pompian style, he does this with efficient, easy-to-read prose. You do not want to make important financial decisions without reading this book.”
—Stephen Horan, Head of Private Wealth, CFA Institute; author, The New Wealth Management

“Many inefficiencies in the market are a result of how investors let their emotions dictate their investment decisions. Michael Pompian’s work provides a framework to understand why these inefficiencies exist and how they can improve their investment portfolios.”
—Jean L.P. Brunel, Editor, The Journal of Wealth Management

“Michael Pompian is a global authority and thought leader in the field of Behavioral Finance. I have worked closely with Michael for many years in an ultra-high-net-worth client advisory setting, and I have witnessed his application of the behavioral principles that he has developed over a 25-year consulting career. I have seen Michael navigate, adapt to, and mitigate complex behavioral biases while still accomplishing portfolio management risk and return objectives. Read this book!”

Become a more strategic and successful investor by identifying the biases impacting your decision making.

In Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio, acclaimed investment advisor and author Michael M. Pompian delivers an insightful and thorough guide to countering the negative effect of cognitive and behavioral biases on your financial decisions. You’ll learn about the “Big Five” behavioral biases and how they’re reducing your returns and leading to unwanted and unnecessary costs in your portfolio.

Designed for investors who are serious about maximizing their gains, in this book you’ll discover how to:

● Take control of your decision-making—even when challenging markets push greed and fear to intolerable levels

● Reflect on how to make investment decisions using data-backed and substantiated information instead of emotion and bias

● Counter deep-seated biases like loss aversion, hindsight and overconfidence with self-awareness and hard facts

● Identify your personal investment psychology profile, which you can use to inform your future financial decision making

Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio was created for individual investors, but will also earn a place in the libraries of financial advisors, planners and portfolio managers who are determined to counteract the less principled and data-driven aspects of their decision making.