Are you an investment professional seeking a concise but practical understanding of behavioural finance teaching?
Are you looking for an opportunity to learn about the latest research findings and how these can be incorporated in your investment processes?
If so, this two day programme provides a very practical overview of the new discipline of behavioural finance.
The programme focuses directly on how investors in international capital markets can enhance their performance by understanding some of the underlying psychological and emotional processes. This approach is applied drawing directly on the first-hand experience of delegates and the issues and problems they have to deal with in their day-to-day work.
Participants will leave fully briefed from research evidence on the latest thinking, and more confident in applying advantageous behavioural finance insights in their investment task.
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Who leads the programme?
Richard Taffler is Professor of Finance at WBS, a Fellow of the UK CFA Society and a leading authority on behavioural finance and investment. He has published over a hundred academic and professional papers and books, and is frequently quoted in the media.
In addition to behavioural finance, Richard’s extensive applied research interests cover issues of market mispricing and the exploitation of stock market anomalies, including the market’s inability to deal with bad news appropriately; investment management and fund manager skill; the role gambling plays in financial markets; and the impact of CEO overconfidence and narcissism on corporate decisions and the associated investment implications.
Richard is currently developing the new paradigm of emotional finance to complement traditional and behavioural perspectives explaining investor and market behaviour.