Behavioural Investing

- Preface
- Acknowledgments

SECTION I: COMMON MISTAKES AND BASIC BIASES
1 Emotion, Neuroscience and Investing: Investors as Dopamine Addicts
2 Part Man, Part Monkey
3 Take aWalk on the Wild Side
4 Brain Damage, Addicts and Pigeons
5 What Do Secretaries' Dustbins and the Da Vinci Code have in Common?
6 The Limits to Learning

SECTION II: THE PROFESSIONALS AND THE BIASES
7 Behaving Badly

SECTION III: THE SEVEN SINS OF FUND MANAGEMENT
8 A Behavioural Critique
9 The Folly of Forecasting: Ignore all Economists, Strategists, & Analysts
10 What Value Analysts?
11 The Illusion of Knowledge or Is More Information Better Information?
12 WhyWaste Your Time Listening to Company Management?
13 Who's a Pretty Boy Then? Or Beauty Contests, Rationality and Greater Fools
14 ADHD, Time Horizons and Underperformance
15 The Story is The Thing (or The Allure of Growth)
16 Scepticism is Rare or (Descartes vs Spinoza)
17 Are Two Heads Better Than One?

SECTION IV: INVESTMENT PROCESS AS BEHAVIOURAL DEFENCE
18 The Tao of Investing

PART A: THE BEHAVIORAL INVESTOR
19 Come Out of the Closet (or, Show Me the Alpha)
20 Strange Brew
21 Contrarian or Conformist?
22 Painting by Numbers: An Ode to Quant
23 The Perfect Value Investor
24 A Blast from the Past
25 Why Not Value? The Behavioural Stumbling Blocks

PART B: THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE: VALUE IN ALL ITS FORMS
26 Bargain Hunter (or It Offers Me Protection)
27 Better Value (or The Dean Was Right!)
28 The Little Note that Beats the Market
29 Improving Returns Using Inside Information
30 Just a Little Patience: Part I
31 Just a Little Patience: Part II
32 Sectors, Value and Momentum
33 Sector-Relative FactorsWorks Best
34 Cheap Countries Outperform

PART C: RISK, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT
35 CAPM is CRAP (or, The Dead Parrot Lives!)
36 Risk Managers or Risk Maniacs?
37 Risk: Finance's Favourite Four-Letter Word

SECTION V: BUBBLES AND BEHAVIOUR
38 The Anatomy of a Bubble
39 De-bubbling: Alpha

JAMES MONTIER is the global equity strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort in London. He has been the top rated strategist in the annual Extel survey for the last two years. He is also the author of Behavioural Finance , published by Wiley in 2000. James was on the 50 must read analysts list complied by the Business magazine, and was one of the Financial News Rising Stars.
James is a regular speaker at both academic and practitioner conferences, and is regarded as the leading authority on applying behavioural finance to investment. He is also a visiting fellow at the University of Durham. James is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has been described as a maverick by the Sunday Times, an enfant terrible by the FAZ, and a prophet by the Fast Company! When not writing or reading, he can usually be found blowing bubbles at fish and swimming with sharks.

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