IWM - Can Behavioral Finance Make You A Better Investor And Improve Your Life?

2024-06-11 08:45:00 ET

Summary

• Understanding behavioral finance and economics can greatly improve your investing success.
• Two classic anomalies to be aware of are the quality-minus-junk anomaly and the disposition effect.
• The quality-minus-junk anomaly is easily exploited by investing in the correct funds or in individual stocks. The disposition effect will help you manage your portfolio better.
• More practical finance/economics knowledge that can help your life.

Next week, Seeking Alpha will be holding its first-ever investing summit in New York City! I'm flying in and will be speaking on behavioral finance and economics in an afternoon session with Seeking Alpha editor Max Gottlich . Since I started publishing on finance in 2016, my greatest concentration of readers has always come from the New York metropolitan area. For that, I'm grateful, and I'm looking forward to meeting some of my NYC-based readers in person. Also, my understanding is that we will be uploading the session online later so that all of our worldwide readership can access it....

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