Behavioral Finance and Investor Types

Achieve investing success by understanding your behavior type

This groundbreaking book shows how to invest wisely by managing your behavior, and not just your money. Step by step, Michael Pompian (a leading authority in the practical application of Behavioral Finance concepts to wealth management) helps you plan a strategy targeted to your personality. The book includes a test for determining your investment type and offers strategies you can put into use when investing. It also includes a brief history of the stock market, and easy-to-comprehend information about stocks and investing to help you lay a solid foundation for your investment decisions.

Behavioral Finance and Investor Types is divided into two parts. Test Your Type, gives an overview of Behavioral Finance as well as the elements that come into play when figuring out BIT, like active or passive traits, risk tolerance, and biases. The book includes a quiz to help you discover what category you are in. Plan and Act, contains the traits common to your type; an analysis of the biases associated with your type; and strategies and solutions that compliment and capitalize on your BIT.

• Offers a practical guide to an investing strategy that fits both your financial situation and your personality type
• Includes a test for determining your tolerance for risk and other traits that will determine your investment type
• Written by the Director of the Private Wealth Practice for Hammond Associates—an investment consulting firm serving institutional and private wealth clients

Behavioral Finance and Investor Types offers investors a better sense of what drives them and what puts on their breaks. By using the information found here, you'll quickly become savvy about the world of investing because you'll come to understand your place in it.

MICHAEL M. POMPIAN, CFA, CAIA, CFP, is a partner at Mercer Investment Consulting (formerly Hammond Associates) serving institutional and private wealth clients. Prior to joining Mercer, he worked at Merrill Lynch and PNC Private Bank, as well as the investment staff of a family office. Pompian holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and a Certified Financial Planner (CFP). He is also a member of the CFA Institute (formerly AIMR) and the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA). He holds a BS in management from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Tulane University. He is a regular speaker on the subject of behavioral finance and has published numerous articles on the subject. He is married with three sons and can be reached at .

Praise for Behavioral Finance and Investor Types "Michael has done yeoman's service in taking years of academic research and his own practitioner insights to illuminate the mandatory need to understand the virtues of the physiological implications of choice. He is bringing these essential findings to the forefront of untangling everyday investment thinking with the clear mandate of implementing sound investment decisions. His combined knowledge of the inherent drivers of investor behavior, and years of careful observation, clearly illuminates that shoe sizes, so to speak, vary a great deal." -- Arnie Wood , CEO, Martingale Asset Management "Pompian brings something new to the field of behavioral finance books. By combining insights into our fundamental cognitive and emotional biases with insights into fundamental personality types, he provides concrete, practical action steps to avoid making big mistakes. In classic Pompian style, he does it with efficient, easy-to-read prose. You do not want to make important financial decisions without reading this book." -- Stephen Horan , Head, University Relations and Private Wealth, CFA Institute "For centuries, great thinkers like Hippocrates and Plato have sought to explain the distinct personality types that drove human behavior. Behavioral Finance and Investor Types extends their constructs and identifies unique Behavioral Investment Types that help explain why investors have such difficulty in achieving their long-term goals. This book provides an outstanding road map for understanding our individual behavioral biases, embracing our unique investor personality, and allocating our portfolios to capitalize on our individual strengths. Behavioral Finance and Investor Types is required reading for any investor who wants to enhance the probability of achieving long-term investment success." -- Mark Yusko , CEO and CIO, Morgan Creek Capital Management "Personality is linked to investors' cognitive errors, including overconfidence, and emotions, including regret. Michael Pompian contributes greatly to our understanding of investors' behavior as he exposes these important links." -- Meir Statman , Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University "Michael Pompian takes investors on a fascinating tour from behavioral finance through personality theory to what he calls Behavioral Investor Types. He manages to simplify the complex world of behavioral investing so that investors and their advisors can get their arms around this large subject. Best of all, Pompian provides clear guidance for how to avoid the behavioral traps that stand between investors and their financial goals." -- Gregory Curtis, Chairman , Greycourt & Co., Inc. "Chock-full of practical applications, this book is an invaluable introduction to behavioral finance, a field of study that will make you a much better investor and advisor. It will certainly be required reading in our practice." -- Harold Evensky , President, Evensky & Katz

Praise for Behavioral Finance and Investor Types "Michael has done yeomans service in taking years of academic research and his own practitioner insights to illuminate the mandatory need to understand the virtues of the physiological implications of choice. He is bringing these essential findings to the forefront of untangling everyday investment thinking with the clear mandate of implementing sound investment decisions. His combined knowledge of the inherent drivers of investor behavior, and years of careful observation, clearly illuminates that shoe sizes, so to speak, vary a great deal." Arnie Wood , CEO, Martingale Asset Management "Pompian brings something new to the field of behavioral finance books. By combining insights into our fundamental cognitive and emotional biases with insights into fundamental personality types, he provides concrete, practical action steps to avoid making big mistakes. In classic Pompian style, he does it with efficient, easy-to-read prose. You do not want to make important financial decisions without reading this book." Stephen Horan , Head, University Relations and Private Wealth, CFA Institute "For centuries, great thinkers like Hippocrates and Plato have sought to explain the distinct personality types that drove human behavior. Behavioral Finance and Investor Types extends their constructs and identifies unique Behavioral Investment Types that help explain why investors have such difficulty in achieving their long-term goals. This book provides an outstanding road map for understanding our individual behavioral biases, embracing our unique investor personality, and allocating our portfolios to capitalize on our individual strengths. Behavioral Finance and Investor Types is required reading for any investor who wants to enhance the probability of achieving long-term investment success." Mark Yusko , CEO and CIO, Morgan Creek Capital Management "Personality is linked to investors cognitive errors, including overconfidence, and emotions, including regret. Michael Pompian contributes greatly to our understanding of investors behavior as he exposes these important links." Meir Statman , Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University "Michael Pompian takes investors on a fascinating tour from behavioral finance through personality theory to what he calls Behavioral Investor Types. He manages to simplify the complex world of behavioral investing so that investors and their advisors can get their arms around this large subject. Best of all, Pompian provides clear guidance for how to avoid the behavioral traps that stand between investors and their financial goals." Gregory Curtis, Chairman , Greycourt & Co., Inc. "Chock-full of practical applications, this book is an invaluable introduction to behavioral finance, a field of study that will make you a much better investor and advisor. It will certainly be required reading in our practice." Harold Evensky , President, Evensky & Katz

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