INVESTMENT AND SECURITIES MARKETS Semester 1‚ 2010 / 2011 Ms. Viet Cao Topic 2 – Formal overview of investor psychology Part 1: Heuristic – driven biases 2010 Investment & Securities Markets 2 What are heuristics ? – Trial and error rules of thumb or “mental shortcuts” to simplify complex judgment or decisions – Includes intuitive “back-of-the-envelope” mental calculations – However‚ heuristics are imperfect and often leads to errors – Investors‚ like everyone else‚ commit decision errors
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A mother-daughter relationship is very crucial in a girl’s life. It is widely known that if a girl doesn’t have her mother to turn to for everything‚ she will most likely turn to her friends. The “mother and daughter” bond should be the closest bond a girl can have. No friend should measure up to the closeness you share with your mother. It is sometimes very difficult for this to happen for many different reasons. In many cases‚ the mother will feel like her daughter doesn’t understand because
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Roosevelt Campbell Professor Finnegan English 111 (009) 7 October 2012 The death of the young man in the Nicaraguan war The photograph by Koen Wessing‚ “Nicaragua” (1970) shows a group of people around a dead body on a torn up street in a tragic scene. In the foreground‚ lies a dead young man on a bumpy road covered with a white sheet‚ looks like an army boot on one foot sticking out. In the foreground‚ at the head of the body blood stains are noticeable. A woman who seems to be the young
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STUDY OF BEHAVIORAL FINANCE A PROJECT REPORT BATCH: 2010-12 To Dr.Sampada Kapse Program Co-ordinator (PGDM) In partial fulfillment of the requirements of Tolani Institute of Management Studies‚ Adipur For the award of the degree of Post Graduate Diploma in Management [pic] Tolani Institute of Management Studies PB No.11‚ LilashahKutiya Road‚ Adipur – 370 205 (Kachchh). Ph: (02836) 261466‚ 262187 Email: tims@tolani.org‚ www.tolani.org/tims JUNE 2011 acknowledgement
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1) Assume the role of an LB employee a) What is your everyday environment like (assume this would be normally involve face-to-face teams)? Specifically‚ consider how you would fill your day‚ what the office environment would be‚ what would determine your work priorities and the nature of your relationship with your colleagues and your client(s). Leo Burnett has a multidisciplinary team structure serviced each brand. Employees are responsible to provide full advertising service to meet client’s
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Trace the growth of the power of the pigs in ‘Animal Farm’. What lessons does Orwell wish us to draw from this? In the novel‚ Animal Farm‚ by George Orwell‚ we can clearly see the growth of the power that the pigs‚ mainly Napoleon have over the rest of the animals. We see at the start of the novel‚ animal farm working well‚ but as the novel progresses we see Napoleon and the pigs becoming hungrier for power and control. Through this growth of power in the pigs‚ Orwell teaches us some very important
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Set in post-apartheid South Africa‚ J. M. Coetzee’s searing novel tells the story of David Lurie‚ a twice divorced‚ 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical University. The story is about how David feels disgrace about the things that he had came through. And some parts of the novel reflect the historical background. The novel examines the history of racial oppression in South Africa following with the development of the story that happened to David. After David
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The Rise of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century ( A Brief Summary of the first three lectures) 1- The first half of the eighteenth century marks the rise of a new literary genre: works of prose called today ‘novels’. 2- The novel has its roots in the short tales of the middle and Elizabethan ages‚ like romances and other adventure stories. 3- Romances- also called “French romances”- are fictitious‚ fanciful stories in prose about knights and their
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Ray Penman Oct 3‚ 2010 The Savage Beast— Man’s Inherent Primitivism as Shown in Lord of the Flies A running theme in Lord of the Flies is that man is savage at heart‚ always ultimately reverting back to an evil and primitive nature. The cycle of man’s rise to power‚ or righteousness‚ and his inevitable fall from grace is an important point that book proves again and again‚ often comparing man with characters from the Bible to give a more vivid picture of his descent. Lord of the Flies symbolizes
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Webs of Conflict The Scarlet Letter is a book that centralizes on the importance of being true to one’s feelings. Because the main characters of the novel were not true to their feelings‚ a long series of conflicts arise from the situation. Internal conflicts of admitting guilt or sin trouble most of the characters‚ as they all have a sin in which they must decide whether or not to profess. External conflicts like fate and pressures of society oppose the will of the characters. The Scarlet Letter
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