In this groundbreaking guide, John Schott, a leading pioneer in investment psychology, whose strategies have been featured on CNBC's "Power Lunch" and "Adam Smith's Money World", shows investors how money and emotion can work together to make a profitable portfolio Author publicity. Targeted print ads.
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Our brains may not be wired for successful investing. Greed, fear, pride, and shame make for plenty of irrational behavior on Wall Street, little of it profitable. Investors fall victim to a variety of mild mental disorders that are diagnosed in this insightful book by John W. Schott, who is both a professional money manager and a practicing psychoanalyst on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He shows how to become a more confident investor who is able to guard against the whipsaw emotions that can obscure wisdom. Schott also offers sensible investment advice and even publishes his own core portfolio.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A novel approach to personal investment counseling,
By A Customer
This review is from: Mind over Money: Match Your Personality to a Winning Financial Strategy (Hardcover)
I bought this book after reading the following review in Publishers Weekly, and agree with it completely: "Schott here brings together two concurrent careers -- as a financial manager and a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist -- lending a novel and significant dimension to personal investment counseling. Writing with freelancer Arbeiter, he outlines programs of diversification, share value appraisal, by-and-sell timing and the like to suit the psychological needs of various types of investors: timid, indecisive, impulsive, guilt-ridden, safety-minded, overconfident or simply the innate gambler. "Handling greed in a bull market and fear in a bear market" is an investor's prime need, according to the authors, who suggest specific standards for selling, while maintaining that the "best way to make money is to buy good companies and stick with them." Offering the reader-investor emotional self-discovery, this is also a particularly accessible and penetrating analysis of all investment vehicles, enlivened by case histories, anecdotes and quotes from the likes of Warren Buffet, along with portfolio listings of stocks and bonds chosen especially for each emotional type."
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Understanding Investing,
By Tricia Huber (Leawood, KS USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mind over Money: Match Your Personality to a Winning Financial Strategy (Hardcover)
Mind Over Money provides helpful information to any investor, no matter how experienced. It explains how to control emotions such as greed and fear in order to be most successful with your investing. Schott offers beneficial advice on how to develop a strategy and how to set expectations for your stocks so that you will guarantee a long-term profit in the market. He explains different investment possibilities such as value and growth stocks or bonds and what types are more or less risky than others. He also tells how to evaluate and research them and how they should be put into your own portfolio. His insight into the reasons people lose a lot of money help you to understand what it takes to avoid loss and encourage profit. As both an experienced investor and knowledgable psychologist, Schott analyses and guides each kind of emotion a person experiences through investing money. He gives you the confidence to control your emotions and your money and to be sure of your decisions. In letting you know how to tell when to buy and when to sell, he gives the assurance needed to make sound choices. Overall, this book will put you ahead of the game in your chances of excelling in the stock market.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent advice for the novice or seasoned investor,
By A Customer
This review is from: Mind over Money: Match Your Personality to a Winning Financial Strategy (Hardcover)
I was fascinated by the fact that the author of this book has a first career as a psychiatrist and thought that it would be an interesting read, to see why people make investment mistakes. I was certainly satisfied in that respect. The book is replete with stories of Dr. Schott's client's and patient's investment mistakes (often quite funny) and successes. Little did I know, this book would also provide great advice for an interested but novice investor. Dr. Schott divulges his own portfolio and explains exactly what percentage of your own money should be invested in what stocks, or mutual funds depending on your goals. And no wonder! The next day, I saw Dr. Schott on C-Span. He had predicted the day's market drop. And I also opened Money magazine in which he was featured! All in all, the best book I've read this fall! I'm sure it will pay for itself many times over!!
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