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    What Investors Really Want: Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Smarter Financial Decisions
    What Investors Really Want: Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Smarter Financial Decisions
    What Investors Really Want: Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Smarter Financial Decisions
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    What Investors Really Want: Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Smarter Financial Decisions

    By Meir Statman

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    A pioneer in the field of behavioral finance presents an investment guide based on what really drives investors

    • Perfectly timed to give readers a real edge for investing in post-crash markets
    • Author is a leading authority on the theory and application of behavioral finance and a fixture in The Wall Street Journal and other leading media outlets
    • Poised to become the definitive text on how investors and managers make financial decisions—and how these decisions are reflected in financial markets
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
    Release dateNov 19, 2010
    ISBN9780071741668
    What Investors Really Want: Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Smarter Financial Decisions

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