…cautious behavior by some economic participants, which may negatively impact current conditions, as we are witnessing today. Once there is more clarity and a belief that the anticorruption crackdown is…
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Bull In Tact, But It Could Get Volatile, Sonders Says
…was a lesser -7% in the mid-2000s cycle.” “Looking at every initial rate hike since the early 1960s, and analyzing the stock market’s behavior in the six months before and…
O'Shaughnessy on Investor Psychology, Bond Market Trouble, and Why Value Wins
In a wide-ranging interview with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg View, quantitative investing guru James O’Shaughnessy recently talked about why human beings are such inferior prognosticators compared to computer models, what…
Think Like a Contrarian with the Dreman Strategy
…Well, Dreman, perhaps more than any other guru I follow, is a student of investor psychology. And at the core of his research is the belief that investors tend to…
What To Do With All Those Competing Stock Picks?
…The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing,” told Jaffe that investors who listen to stock recommendations should be aware of anchoring and familiarity bias, two behavioral biases that could trip…
Why Investors Underperform Their Own Funds, And The Market
…after a streak of hot performance and diving over the gunwales after it goes bad,” Zweig writes. “Because of that buy-high, sell-low behavior, investors in the typical fund have a…
Study: Investors Continue To Lag Market -- By A Lot
Dalbar Inc.’s latest Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior (QAIB) is out, and –once again– the results show that most investors continue to shoot themselves in the foot. “The average investor…
The Fisher Approach: The Price/Sales Ratio -- and Beyond
…6.0% annualized (figures through April 23). That makes it one of my most successful long-term strategies. Price-to-Sales and “The Glitch” Fisher is a student of investor psychology, and his observations…
Don't Let Your Brain Bully You Into Taking On Too Much Risk
…how the human brain assesses risk, according to a study that will appear later this year in a well-regarded psychology publication, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,” he says….
Don't Forget The Crisis
…about what that bear market meant, how it affected their behavior then and how it ought to factor into their thinking now,” they write. One key lesson: Beware “expert” opinions,…