Posts Tagged ‘investor psychology’

Battling Peer Pressure… In Investing

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Frank Murtha from MarketPsych returns with some insight about how that annoying habit from high school  follows most people into their grown-up financial lives. If you’ve been jumping off bridges after your friends up until now, maybe this will convince you to stop:

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Lessons From the Crash: Frank Murtha, Market Shrink (2 of 4)

Monday, April 18th, 2011

Frank Murtha is a psychologist with MarketPsych who specializes in investor behavior. Or misbehavior. Or misconceptions. Well, all of that. His job is to study how people make decisions with their money, and to help us understand (and avoid) common mistakes.

He stopped by to talk to us about how a crashing stock market changes the way investors invest. (Hello, recession of 2008!) Pretty interesting stuff. Check it out:

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