Investment Traps Exposed
Navigating Investor Mistakes and Behavioral Biases
Investment Traps Exposed helps investors and investment practitioners increase their awareness about the external and internal traps that they or their clients can encounter.
Publication Date:
2017-03-15Authors:
Chapters:
- Prelims
- 1 Navigating the Investment Minefield
- 2 Common Investing Mistakes: Round One
- 3 Common Investing Mistakes: Round Two
- 4 How Behavioral Biases Can Hurt Your Investing
- 5 Trap 1: Becoming a Victim of Pyramid and Ponzi Schemes
- 6 Trap 2: Being Deceived by Other Investment Frauds
- 7 Trap 3: Misrepresenting Risky Products as Safe
- 8 Trap 4: Making Unrealistic Return Expectations
- 9 Trap 5: Falling for Mutual Fund Traps
- 10 Trap 6: Overpaying for Products and Services
- 11 Trap 7: Investing in Complex Products
- 12 Traps 8 and 9: Engaging in Gambling Disguised as Investing and Relying on Unsupported Promises
- Index
