- Hardcover: 402 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA; 2nd Revised edition edition (17 Oct 2002)
- Language French
- ISBN-10: 0195161211
- ISBN-13: 978-0195161212
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.4 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 855,017 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Psychology rules the stock market, according to Hersh Shefrin. In Beyond Greed and Fear, Shefrin shows how bias, perception and other aspects of psychology often rattle investors and move stocks. From the individual who keeps losers too long, to overconfident money managers who mistakenly think they can predict financial trends, human nature foils investment returns. "Behavioral finance is everywhere that people make financial decisions. Psychology is hard to escape; it touches every corner of the financial landscape, and it's important. Financial practitioners need to understand the impact that psychology has on them and those around them. Practitioners ignore psychology at their peril", writes Shefrin, a finance professor at Santa Clara University. An academic volume geared toward financial professionals, the book details an emerging field known as behavioural finance, in which psychology is believed to be at least as important as market fundamentals such as earnings and balance sheets. Shefrin describes how investors are motivated by fear, hope, overconfidence and the need for short-term gratification. The book gives plenty of examples of investment mistakes, and analyses them from a behavioural finance perspective. While Beyond Greed and Fear targets professionals, individual investors will benefit from this look at an important mover of markets. --Dan Ring, Amazon.com
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Hersh Shefrin's book is seeking to make behavioral finance understandable outside the academic community ... Shefrin's book provides us with rich details drawn from the world of investments.
... an ideal reference for those who serve the pension and retirement community ... In the academic world, it could be a supplemental reading for undergraduate or MBA investment courses, or it may guide the non-specialist seeking a readable summary of recent literature .. Non-experts looking for a useful reference in the investment realm will certainly want to read this book.
... an ideal reference for those who serve the pension and retirement community ... In the academic world, it could be a supplemental reading for undergraduate or MBA investment courses, or it may guide the non-specialist seeking a readable summary of recent literature .. Non-experts looking for a useful reference in the investment realm will certainly want to read this book.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When this book was first published, it may have been an eye opener to the non-academic audience it seems to have been aimed at. Now that behavioural finance is widely accepted, and there are other books for the general reader, its weaknesses become obvious.
This is a book from the "I'm clever and everyone else is stupid" school of writing - and the author is not as good a writer as Nicholas Taleb. As one small example, we are encouraged to sneer at people who have chosen the wrong model of the market (e.g. momentum players or contrarian players), without any hint that the author has any techniques or analysis to determine which model to use when, and with a strong "they are wrong 50% of the time" attitude.
The book does not cover today's full spread of behavioural finance. We have issues around "framing" well explained and explored. The tendency for people to minimise regret rather than maximise wealth, the power of recent memory, and the mis-use of mental models are all covered, but the chain from psychology to these symptoms is not really mapped or explored.
And then the second half of the book is taken up with examples of market inefficiency, with no real explanation of the causes, and no real attempt to link these to human behaviour.
For the academicly-minded, the references are pulled from a surprisingly small group of authors - though it was probably not so surprising given when the book was written. And for the general reader it suffers from not having a narrative thread that builds through the book.
No doubt a 5-star book when first published; now there are so many other books out there there must be many better. I am starting in to James Montier "Behavioural Investing" - and so far so good.
This is a book from the "I'm clever and everyone else is stupid" school of writing - and the author is not as good a writer as Nicholas Taleb. As one small example, we are encouraged to sneer at people who have chosen the wrong model of the market (e.g. momentum players or contrarian players), without any hint that the author has any techniques or analysis to determine which model to use when, and with a strong "they are wrong 50% of the time" attitude.
The book does not cover today's full spread of behavioural finance. We have issues around "framing" well explained and explored. The tendency for people to minimise regret rather than maximise wealth, the power of recent memory, and the mis-use of mental models are all covered, but the chain from psychology to these symptoms is not really mapped or explored.
And then the second half of the book is taken up with examples of market inefficiency, with no real explanation of the causes, and no real attempt to link these to human behaviour.
For the academicly-minded, the references are pulled from a surprisingly small group of authors - though it was probably not so surprising given when the book was written. And for the general reader it suffers from not having a narrative thread that builds through the book.
No doubt a 5-star book when first published; now there are so many other books out there there must be many better. I am starting in to James Montier "Behavioural Investing" - and so far so good.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A sensible and readable introduction to Behavioural Finance for investors. Shefrin first discusses the behavioural biases exhibited by investors and then shows how these are to be found in a wide range of investment activities - efforts to predict the market, individual and institutional investors, corporate finance and derivatives.
The books is interesting to read and contains several real life examples of the unfortunate effects of the biases (such as the Long Term Capital Management).
Not a book for academics but for anyone interested in why investment decisions so often go wrong this will provide an excellent introduction.
The books is interesting to read and contains several real life examples of the unfortunate effects of the biases (such as the Long Term Capital Management).
Not a book for academics but for anyone interested in why investment decisions so often go wrong this will provide an excellent introduction.
Format:Paperback
For everyone interested in a really good overview in the findings of behavioral finance: this is the one to read! Shefrin does a great job with this book!
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