Value Investing And Behavioral Finance

Value Investing And Behavioral Finance Book Description

?When others are greedy be fearful and when others are fearful be greedy??ill-timed bouts of greed and fear among investors make stock markets volatile ? ?When others are greedy be fearful and when others are fearful be greedy?? ill-timed bouts of greed and fear among investors make stock markets volatile. Rational and successful investing is all about restraining and channelizing these emotions and understanding behavioral finance, not market sentiments, crowd behavior or company performances. ?

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At a time when market upheavals are eroding investors? confidence, dooming life?s earnings and corporate fortunes, and whipping up mass hysteria? Value Investing and Behavioral Finance comes as an antidote to investor anxiety and a guide to sane and safe investment decisions. Using investing trends in Indian capital markets over the last three decades, it shows how collective behavioral biases affect investment decisions, returns and market vagaries. As a corrective, it spells out long-term value and contrarian investing strategies based on the principles of behavioral finance.

Further, it advises on how to spot investment opportunities and pitfalls in commodity stocks, growth stocks, PSUs , IPOs , sectors and index stocks. It also alerts the reader to a ?bubble? or crisis situation, and ways to identify and insure against it.

Value Investing and Behavioral Finance , a timely offering from a seasoned investment strategist, is a must read for stock brokers, bankers, lay investors, portfolio managers, fund managers, and students of finance.

Parag Parikh, an alumnus of Harvard Business School , is the founder-chairman of Parag Parikh Financial Advisory Services Ltd .( PPFAS) with over 25 years of experience in the financial sector. Thoroughly conversant with the dynamics of the Indian stock market, and a vocal proponent of behavioral finance and value investing in India , Parag has an abiding passion for making financial market a better and safer place for investors through emotionally restrained, rational, value-based and long-term approach to investing.

He is a columnist with The Times of India , The Economic Times, Business Standard, DNA, and Financial Express, among other business journals. His views on the financial markets are actively sought by television channels like Times Now, NDTV Profit, Doordarshan and CNBC. Parag has also authored the widely acclaimed bestseller ? Stocks to Riches: Insights into Investor Behaviour ? ? published by McGraw-Hill Education.

Table of Contents:

1 1. Success and Failure

2. Understanding Behavioral Trends

3. Behavioral Obstacles to Value Investing

4. Contrarian Investing: The Psychology of Going Against the Crowd

5. Growth Trap

6. Commodity Investing

7. Public Sector Units

8. Sector Investing

9. Initial Public Offerings

10. Index Investing

11. Bubble Trap

12. Investor Behavior Based Finance

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