Dr. Rolf J. Daxhammer is professor for Financial Markets at ESB Business School, Reutlingen University. His teaching and research interests are International Financial Markets, Investment Banking and Behavioral Finance. In his consulting work he is engaged in projects in Private Wealth Management und Financial Nudging, amongst others.

Máté Facsar is Vice President Sales for Management Consulting & Professional Services Firms at FactSet, a global provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications. His close cooperation with Leaders in Asset and Wealth Management over the last decade enables him to monitor the application of Behavioral Finance and to address the challenges Portfolio Managers and Wealth Advisors face.

Zsolt Papp, Managing Director, is a senior investment specialist in Global Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities group of J.P.Morgan Asset Management, a global leader in asset management services.. He has 30 years' experience in the financial industry in the UK and Switzerland on the sell-side and buy-side, with a special focus on emerging markets.

- concerns that humans do not always act in a strictly rational manner.
- opens the door to another perspective on financial markets
- includes the influence of emotions

Section 1: The Homo Economicus in the center of Traditional Finance
1. How Traditional Finance shaped the Rational Economic Man
2. Limitations of the traditional finance theory
Section II: Recurring speculative bubbles - triggered by the Homo Oeconomicus Humanus
3. Investor behavior from the perspective of Behavioral Finance
4. Speculative bubbles as a sign of market anomalies
5. Historical speculative asset price bubbles
Section III: Homo Oeconomicus Humanus in information and decision making processes
6. Phases of decisions making
7. Limited rationality in the perception of information
8. Limited rationality in the processing of information
9. Limited rationality in investment decisions
Section IV: Applications of Behavioral Finance and recent developments
10. Applications of Behavioral Finance in Wealth Management
11. Application of Behavioral Finance in corporate management
12. Financial Nudging - behavioral approaches for better financial decisions
13. Further development of Behavioral Finance - a look into the future