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Author: Karen Firestone Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351861867 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 198
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In Even the Odds, Karen Firestone explains how risk assessment plays a prominent role in all aspects of life. We may all define risk, and our tolerance for it, somewhat differently, but we might all agree it plays a pivotal role in guiding us toward an optimal outcome. As a long-time investment advisor, Firestone has grown accustomed to interpreting risk on a daily basis. She has developed four core tenets of risk-taking we can all apply to anticipating, evaluating, and responding to the risks we face in our business, investing, and personal lives. These tenets are right-sizing; right-timing; relying on skill, knowledge, and experience; and staying skeptical about numbers, promises, and forecasts. Firestone's approach is both practical and accessible to individuals who are making important decisions, such as embarking on new career or life changes, starting or running an enterprise, making a sizable investment, or deciding how to balance across a full portfolio of assets. The book is rich with anecdotes and examples of how many prominent leaders in their fields encountered and dealt with risk along the way. Firestone also shares her own successes and failures, in particular when she decided to risk it all--a fabulous career managing billions of dollars at a premium investment company, her reputation, and the security at home that comes with a strong and stable job--to go out on her own. Even the Odds helps us understand the broader implications of risk--and how it guides our decision-making--so that we can improve outcomes across multiple facets of our lives, from our businesses and investments, to the personal choices we make.
Author: Karen Firestone Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351861867 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
In Even the Odds, Karen Firestone explains how risk assessment plays a prominent role in all aspects of life. We may all define risk, and our tolerance for it, somewhat differently, but we might all agree it plays a pivotal role in guiding us toward an optimal outcome. As a long-time investment advisor, Firestone has grown accustomed to interpreting risk on a daily basis. She has developed four core tenets of risk-taking we can all apply to anticipating, evaluating, and responding to the risks we face in our business, investing, and personal lives. These tenets are right-sizing; right-timing; relying on skill, knowledge, and experience; and staying skeptical about numbers, promises, and forecasts. Firestone's approach is both practical and accessible to individuals who are making important decisions, such as embarking on new career or life changes, starting or running an enterprise, making a sizable investment, or deciding how to balance across a full portfolio of assets. The book is rich with anecdotes and examples of how many prominent leaders in their fields encountered and dealt with risk along the way. Firestone also shares her own successes and failures, in particular when she decided to risk it all--a fabulous career managing billions of dollars at a premium investment company, her reputation, and the security at home that comes with a strong and stable job--to go out on her own. Even the Odds helps us understand the broader implications of risk--and how it guides our decision-making--so that we can improve outcomes across multiple facets of our lives, from our businesses and investments, to the personal choices we make.
Author: Joachim Klement Publisher: CFA Institute Research Foundation ISBN: 1944960473 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 150
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If risk aversion and willingness to take on risk are driven by emotions and we as humans are bad at correctly identifying them, the finance profession has a serious challenge at hand—how to reliably identify the individual risk profile of a retail investor or high-net-worth individual. In this series of CFA Institute Research Foundation briefs, we have asked academics and practitioners to summarize the current state of knowledge about risk profiling in different key areas.
Author: Florian Lindner Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A pervasive feature in the finance industry is relative performance, which can include extrinsic (money), intrinsic (self-image), and reputational (status) motives. In this paper, we model a portfolio decision with two assets and investigate how reputational motives (i.e., the public announcement of the winners or losers) influence risk-taking in investment decisions vis-a-vis intrinsic motives. We test our hypotheses experimentally with 864 students and 330 financial professionals. We find that reputational motives play a minor role among financial professionals, as the risk-taking of underperformers is already increased due to intrinsic motives. Student behavior, however, is mainly driven by reputational motives with risk-taking levels that come close to those of professionals when winners or losers are announced publicly. This indicates that professionals show higher levels of intrinsic (self-image) incentives to outperform others compared to non-professionals (students), but a similar behavior can be sparked among the latter by adding reputational incentives.
Author: Elke U. Weber Publisher: CFA Institute Research Foundation ISBN: 1944960406 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 33
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An investor’s risk attitude is a stable characteristic, like a personality trait, but risk-taking behavior can change based on the investor’s age, recent market events, and life experiences. These factors change investors’ perceptions of the risks. Differences in risk tolerance between men and women or in different circumstances trace back to emotional as much as rational considerations. Financial advisers should consider all of these factors when advising clients and can use four simple steps to incorporate best practices: be aware, educate, nudge, and hand hold.
Author: Mike Elvin Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470020725 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 294
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In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, offering the reader a context in which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. The book offers an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full-time day trader. Elvin presents a Comprehensive Model of Trading Competence (the MOT) as well as the concepts of analysis and refutation, the paramouncy principle, and self-sabotaging behaviours such as the Santa Claus syndrome and Bohica effect. Areas covered include: Emotions - are they functional or disabling? How do the mechanisms of fear, greed and panic work? Motivation and perception - how do belief paradigms affect perception and performance? What perceptual errors influence decisions to the trader's detriment? Information processing and risk assessment - how does information overload affect Stress How does stress affect investment decisions? Technological and mathematical anxiety - why do we avoid learning the skills we most need? What levels of ability are required? Can psychological and biological theories assist in our understanding of investors' performance?
Author: Michael Pompian Publisher: CFA Institute Research Foundation ISBN: 193466782X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 58
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This piece examines risk profiling through a behavioral finance lens. Behavioral finance attempts to understand and explain actual investor behavior, in contrast to theorizing about investor behavior. It differs from traditional (or standard) finance, which is based on assumptions of how investors and markets should behave. Much has been written about the tension that exists between the willingness to take risk and the ability to take risk. Risk appetite is the willingness to take risk and risk capacity is the ability to take risk. In the behavioral context, risk appetite and risk capacity are defined in terms of known risks and unknown risks. Irrational client behavior often occurs when a client experiences unknown risks. To aid in the advisory process, advisors can use Behavioral Investor Types to help make rapid yet insightful assessments of what type of investor they are dealing with before recommending an investment plan. With a better understanding of behavioral finance vis-à-vis risk taking, practitioners can enhance their understanding of client preferences and better inform their recommendations of investment strategies and products.
Author: John E. Grable Publisher: CFA Institute Research Foundation ISBN: 1944960201 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 27
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This content provides financial analysts, investment professionals, and financial planners with a review of how financial risk-tolerance tests can and should be evaluated. It begins by clarifying terms related to risk taking and is followed by a broad overview of two important measurement terms: validity and reliability. It concludes with examples for practice.
Author: Asen Kolaksazov Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag) ISBN: 3954899310 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 73
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In der US-amerikanischen Literatur zur Investitionsrechnung und deren Anwendungen, z.B. in der Unternehmensbewertung, findet sich bereits seit längerem der Vorwurf, dass die Kapitalwertmethode nicht in der Lage sei, den ökonomischen Wert von Investitionsmöglichkeiten richtig zu erfassen. Insbesondere vernachlässigt sie den Wert unternehmerischer Flexibilität. Um diesen zu berücksichtigen, wird vorge-schlagen, die Bewertung unternehmerscher Handlungsspielräume analog zur Bewertung von Finanzoptionen vorzunehmen. Dabei werden unternehmerische Handlungsspielräume als Optionen auf reale Vermögensgegenstände betrachtet. Zur Unterscheidung gegenüber Finanzoptionen hat sich die Bezeichnung Realoptionen etabliert. Während in den USA bereits eine breit gefächerte Literatur zu diesen The-menkomplex entstanden ist, sind im deutschsprachigen Raum hierzu bisher nur wenige Stellungnahmen zu finden. Um jedoch den Wert von Investitionen für die Zukunft zu bestimmen, reichen die traditionellen Methoden der Unternehmens- und Investitionsbewertung nicht aus, denn sie berücksichtigen nicht die entstehenden Möglichkeiten und Flexibilitäten. So werden riskante oder außergewöhnliche Investitionsmöglichkeiten von den traditionellen Investitionsrechnungsverfahren als nicht lukrativ eingestuft, obwohl sie ein enormes Marktpotential besitzen. Solche Investitionsmöglichkeiten können mit dem Ansatz der Realoptionen genauer und unter strategischen Aspekten auch besser beurteilt werden. Es wurde seitens der Investoren der Wert einer solchen zukunfts- und risikobezogenen Bewertung erkannt. Aus diesem Grund wird der Ansatz der Realoptionen immer häufiger zur Bewertung eingesetzt. In Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird die Motivation, die hinter dem Realoptionsansatzes steht, hervorgehoben.
Author: Rachel E. S. Ziemba Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 0470518383 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 334
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This book discusses scenarios for risk management and developing global investment strategies. What are the chances that various future events will occur over time and how should these events and probable occurrence influence investment decisions? Assessing all possible outcomes is fundamental to risk management, financial engineering and investment and hedge fund strategies. A careful consideration of future scenarios will lead to better investment decisions and avoid financial disasters. The book presents tools and case studies around the world for analyzing a wide variety of investment strategies, building scenarios to optimize returns.
Author: Karen Firestone
Author: Karen Firestone
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