Over the weekend I will do my promised post on the "Individual Investor", by Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, and taken from my Advances in Behavioral Finance, edited by Richard H. Thayler.
No original thoughts from me. This will be a bird dog post (under Lucy's watchful eye, now in eternal repose under the forest pansy red bud). But, I think that you guys will find it interesting. There will also be some gender differentiations that will cause some provocation, no doubt.
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Our cat died recently. It is deadly to plant permanent things (bushes, trees) around here going into the heat of the summer. So we are planning to plant something over her when it gets cooler in the Fall. But in the mean time our little one (age 3) comments on her being out there under the mud.
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Advances in Behavioral Finance.
You are referring then to Vol.II Chapter 15. A very interesting book. Vol. I came out in 1993. Both are good, but obviously a book that came out in 2005 is a little more on the cutting edge.
I am assuming from your comments that you are going to discuss the interesting topics in Part 2 D and E. Your perplexity goes right along with E. LOL.
I don't know if I am over confidant. But I do know that I have frequently been lucky (right for the wrong reasons).
Russell,
First, sorry about your cat. May I sugges your going to the garden store and getting an annual flower to place on top the grave until planting conditions become more hospitable? That will give your son a marker. How precocious he is. The death of a family pet is hard on kids. Hell, it's hard on me, still.
Second, I knew that you would have the book! Well, I'm finding some more research on line, so I will incorporate that. I doubt the post will be today. I have to drive with my son. Presuming I'm not killed or maimed permanently in the process, the post will go as planned!
Ah, the beautiful Lucy....
Behavioral finance as you know is one of my primary interests. An area of primary interest is distinguished by multiple sources of books and reading material as opposed to only one or two items.
Behavioral finance is often viewed as being rather esoteric, but value investing fits very well within its basic tenants.
On the other subject:
Plant flowers that are going to die on a dead cat?
My little one asks enough questions about the cat, I don't want to muddy up the situation by bringing a plant into the picture.
He was discussing my impending doom in the car today. I laughed and suggested he bury me next to the cat. He seemed to thing this reasonable, but then my wife put an end to the discussion.
Yes, the precociousness of our children. I had to deal with sex before death.
One time we (our family) were viewing a Discovery Channel program on tigers. Beautiful tigers. Of course this was an authentic documentary; accordingly, they had brief segment of them mating. My daughter (3-4 or so) asks, "Momma, what are they doing?" I said, "They are mating-that means having sex." My husband is sinking into the sofa at this point. The next question(I swear I'm not making this up) "Do you and Daddy do that?" My husband has now become the sofa. I said, "Yes, but I don't growl like that." (Okay, my small attempt at blowing off a bit of MY discomfort). And that was it. Not another peep out of my daughter. It took my husband a couple of days to recover.
Hilarious story! I laughed out loud -- a great way to start the work week.
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