Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management: How to Build Optimal Portfolios That Account for Investor Biases: How to Build Optimal Portfolios for Private Clients (Wiley Finance) - Hardcover

Pompian, Michael M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471745170 ISBN 13: 9780471745174

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Synopsis

"Pompian is handing you the magic book, the one that reveals your behavioral flaws and shows you how to avoid them. The tricks to success are here. Read and do not stop until you are one of very few magicians." -Arnold S. Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer, Martingale Asset Management Fear and greed drive markets, as well as good and bad investment decision-making. In Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management, financial expert Michael Pompian shows you, whether you're an investor or a financial advisor, how to make better investment decisions by employing behavioral finance research. Pompian takes a practical approach to the science of behavioral finance and puts it to use in the real world. He reveals 20 of the most prominent individual investor biases and helps you properly modify your asset allocation decisions based on the latest research on behavioral anomalies of individual investors.

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Praise for Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management

"Pompian is handing you the magic book, the one that reveals your behavioral flaws and shows you how to avoid them. The tricks to success are here. Read and do not stop until you are one of very few magicians."
?Arnold S. Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer Martingale Asset Management

"I wish this book had been available a decade ago; by understanding behavioral biases, clients and professionals can stay focused and comfortable throughout the markets' bubbles and doldrums. Michael Pompian moves our profession forward by proposing a standardized structure for this approach."
?Elizabeth K. Miller, CFA, Managing Director Trevor Stewart Burton & Jacobsen Inc., and former chair of the New York Society of Security Analysts' Wealth Management Committee

"Many inefficiencies in the market are the 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 provide investors with significant profit-making opportunities."
?Stanley G. Lee, CFA, Principal, David J. Greene & Company, LLC

"Michael Pompian has created a valuable resource for investors and those in the wealth management community by not only explaining a number of important behavioral biases, but also giving them actionable steps to reduce biases and improve investment performance."
?John M. Longo, PhD, CFA, Senior Vice President Investment Strategy, the MDE Group, Inc., and Adjunct Professor of Finance at Rutgers University Graduate School of Management

About the Author

MICHAEL M. POMPIAN, CFA, CFP, is the Director of the Private Wealth Practice at Hammond Associates, an investment consulting firm serving institutional and private wealth clients. Prior to joining Hammond Associates, he was a wealth management advisor with Merrill Lynch and PNC Private Bank, and served as an investment advisor to a family office. Pompian holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), and a Certified Trust Financial Advisor (CTFA). He is also a member of the CFA Institute (formerly AIMR) and the New York Society of Securities Analysts (NYSSA). He holds a BS in management from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA in finance from Tulane University. Pompian is a regular speaker on the subject of behavioral finance and has published several articles on the subject. He is married with two sons. He can be reached at mpompian@hammondassociates.com

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0471745170
• ISBN 13: 9780471745174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336