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 Generation

40 Running with the Devil: A Cynical Bubble

41 Bubble Echoes: The Empirical Evidence

SECTION VI: INVESTMENT MYTH BUSTERS

42 Belief Bias and the Zen Investing

43 Dividends Do Matter

44 Dividends, Repurchases, Earnings and the Coming Slowdown

45 Return of the Robber Barons

46 The Purgatory of Low Returns

47 How Important is the Cycle?

48 Have We Really Learnt So Little? (Part I - Earnings; Levels not Trends)

49 Some Random Musings on Alternative Assets

SECTION VII: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND ETHICS

50 Abu Ghraib: Lesson from Behavioural Finance and for Corporate Governance

51 Doing the Right Thing or the Psychology of Ethics

52 Unintended Consequences and Choking under Pressure: The Psychology of Incentives

SECTION VIII: HAPPINESS

53 If It Makes You Happy

54 Materialism and the Pursuit of Happiness

References

Index