Investment Traps Exposed

Navigating Investor Mistakes and Behavioral Biases

H Kent Baker author Vesa Puttonen author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited

Published:20th Mar '17

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Winner of the Book Excellence Awards 2017, Personal Finance category
Given the complex and challenging world of investing, what chance do individuals have navigating the financial minefield and emerging unscathed? Not much, unless they become knowledgeable about investment fundamentals, recognize and correct their mistakes and behavioral biases, and avoid traps strewn along their path. Investment Traps Exposed guides investors past such potential pitfalls as pyramid and Ponzi schemes to help them become more financially successful.
Investment Traps Exposed helps investors and advisors increase their awareness about the external and internal traps that they or their clients can encounter. Baker and Puttonen not only examine common mistakes, assumptions and deceptions that can ensnare investors, affect sound judgment, and reduce wealth but also delve into how to recognize and avoid these errors. The authors present practical advice and real-world examples in a user-friendly manner, and also nudge investors to stay on the right course to mitigate misbehaving.

Baker and Puttonen help people who invest money recognize and avoid common mistakes, behavioral biases, and investment traps that can reduce wealth. The traps they describe are pyramid and Ponzi schemes, other investment frauds, misrepresenting risky products as safe, making unrealistic return expectations, falling for mutual fund traps, overpaying for products and services, investing in complex products, gambling disguised as investing, and relying on unsupported promises. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *

  • Winner of Book Excellence Award 2017 2017
  • Runner-up for AXIOM business book awards Personal - Finance/Retirement Planning/Investing category 2017

ISBN: 9781787142534

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448 pages