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    Behavioural Finance for Small Investors
    Behavioural Finance for Small Investors
    Behavioural Finance for Small Investors
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    Behavioural Finance for Small Investors

    By Sam Ghosh

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    All people are not made equal. We react to the same situations very differently and investment decisions are not exceptions. Investment is a science of decision making. Understanding our own mental makeup and biases is an important step towards developing good investment judgement. To know what biases we suffer from we have known about their existence. This book will help you do that. Apart from that, this book also introduces personality traits that affect our investment decision making.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSam Ghosh
    Release dateDec 15, 2018
    ISBN9780463189924
    Behavioural Finance for Small Investors
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    Sam Ghosh

    Sam Ghosh is an Investment Advisor and Founder of Wisejay Pvt. Limited. He has an MBA in Finance from University of Calgary, Canada, completed all three levels of the CFA program offered by the CFA Insititute, USA and holds various NISM certificates including Mutual Funds Distributors Certificate.

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      Sam Ghosh is an Investment Advisor and Founder of Wisejay Pvt. Limited. He has an MBA in Finance from University of Calgary, Canada, completed all three levels of the CFA program offered by the CFA Insititute, USA and holds various NISM certificates.

      Why this book?

      All people are not made equal. We react to the same situations very differently and investment decisions are not exceptions. Investment is a science of decision making. Understanding our own mental makeup and biases is an important step towards developing good investment judgement. To know what biases we suffer from we have known about their existence. This book will help you do that. Apart from that, this book also

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