Behavioral finance and wealth management : how to build optimal portfolios that account for investor biases

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