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Behavioral finance, which analyzes the herd behavior of investors, offers fire and sword the theories used by most analysts and institutional managers. Although widely shunned in Quebec, it no less fueling the passions of one of its main standard-bearers, William André Nadeau.

What is the term most commonly used among academic researchers in finance
and management of high caliber in recent years? Behavioral finance. As a point of theoretical and practical, it seduces, annoys, intrigue. IPhone is a bit of the financial community: it is talking. But unlike the iPhone, behavioral finance is far from being a successful marketing …
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Do you invest in index funds to fund your long term personal projects? To fund your retirement or develop your property, for example? If you are a faithful reader, you know, index funds allow you to minimize your risk, bringing you to diversify is to pay the costs among the lowest, to devote a minimum of time your investments and especially to obtain a performance that 80% of the funds will be unable to beat over time. This is fine if you know nothing and do not want to invest much of your time to learn the stock market. Investing every month on index funds is a good way to get rich over time. What if there was a method that allows you to get rich quickly, gaining a few years and still enjoying the benefits of index funds?
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Buyers of guaranteed income products are more invested in the stock market, even in turbulent times, according to a recent survey of U.S. insurer Prudential. According to him, guaranteed products generate income for life and have a reset option which crystallized the gains in equity markets. Guaranteed income products serve as the refuge for investors stung by market volatility. Nearly half of them say they are reluctant to invest more in mutual funds, while three in five believe that being too “aggressive” is the main risk for their assets.
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With the recent drop in the stock market, it was clear that many investors are not prepared for such events, many portfolios are completely eroded and a large amount of money changed hands. But why many people lose their money in the bag? Is there any way around it?

The stock market and Carlton Lewis

Imagine for a moment that touched you compete against Carlton “Carl” Lewis called “The son of the wind.” If you do not know, Carl was an American athlete specializing in sprints and long jump who won 10 Olympic medals. Chances are you did not know him personally but judging by his nickname and his medals, it is easy to think that is a tough rival.
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The economic value of a stock market value for the long-term value on paper for the short and long term.

Behavioral finance can understand if the value “on paper” is the value
economy of an investment. An investor who looks for value and who is patient will find his account if
Invested according to the economic value “Fair Value”. Investors interested in market value in the short term will realize less profit in the long term because the economic value outweighs the long term.

The value of bonds, currencies, commodities, real estate and stock market fluctuate greatly in the short term and are sometimes driven by speculators or by emotional responses in the short term.

The value “on paper” in the short term from time to time reflect the true economic value of the investment, but most of the time the recorded value-market value, has a specific date in the short term, does not reflect the economic value . What is the reason?
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Index funds are mutual funds in equities than try to replicate the behavior of a stock index .
Came to be seen that the vast majority of funds investing in equities can not even match the performance of its benchmark index. For example, funds that invest in the Spanish stock market have underperformed the Ibex 35. Once established this fact engineered the creation of index funds with the idea of ​​getting the same return as the index, neither more nor less, so that profitability could be overcome in the immense majority of the funds to get a lower return to the index.

Constructing an index fund is very easy for a manager, just buy exactly the same actions that make up this index and the same proportion . With this strategy as painless and automatic (not require any knowledge of Exchange, and analyzing companies, etc.) You get exactly the same return as the index.
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If any country in the Arab world that investors should watch for these days is Bahrain. The fall of the regime could lead to turn the late kings of Saudi Arabia, which catapult the price of oil.

This was delivered on the Middle East expert and professor of politics at the University of Sherbrooke, Sami Aoun, during a luncheon at the Montreal CFA Society on Wednesday.

“If the grave Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the largest oil producer in the region and the world and the most favored U.S. ally, could explode,” he warns.

The collapse of the regime in Saudi Arabia propel crude prices to about $ 200 U.S. per barrel, said in February Guy Phaneuf, Vice President, Money Markets, BMO Nesbitt Burns. The crude is currently trading around U.S. $ 105 on the Nymex.
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What’s happening lately with Japanese stocks? Why managers are betting on this market, much maligned for years? Have they changed the fundamentals or is it just a matter of valuation? There are more of the latter than the former but, in general, improves vision for Japan.

Even the most reluctant to raw fish have been caught in recent years to fashion, “Japanese.” It’s a matter of taste, being behind the fear of new flavors and textures unknown. With the bag of Land of the Rising happens a little the same. Despite being so far the largest economy (China has just happened, after 42 years in office), few investors dare to come by. There has been an almost universal reluctance to invest in a market they have always been unclear, difficult to analyze and taste. It is a developed country, but with entirely different growth patterns to the U.S. or Europe. But at the same time is very different from what we might find in Asia by the side of the big emerging markets (China and India), although its economy is closely linked to their growth through exports.
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So far this year, the markets of developed countries have exceeded those of developing countries in terms of profitability, and among the former, until recently lagged Europe has led and marked the way forward.

The grounds on which these movements are based earlier this year ranging from the revolutions in North Africa to cover short positions. Fears about a possible rise in inflation has affected the profitability of emerging markets. In Europe, meanwhile, many investors with short positions in peripheral markets and the financial sector have been in a hurry in filling these positions as they both began 2011 with a more positive approach. All this may sound like a rash and appears euphoria based on temporary factors. Do not try to extrapolate the behavior of the first six weeks to the next forty-six. However, we like the beginning of the year and believe that some of the reasons underlying the observed Europe’s leadership during these early weeks are sustainable over time. Sector leadership in Europe is also in contrast to what happened in 2010 and, although factors such as short-covering may have had something to do, we want to draw attention to the importance of “starting points.”
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Ideally, find a way or system to detect the minimum (and maximum) of market movements. But it is not realistic. Some tools try to detect the minimum (and maximum) of each movement, such as graphic and technical analysis, Japanese candlestick or candlesticks, analysis of cash flows, etc. But no tool is infallible and sometimes give false signals.

Many investors expect to get advice from someone more experienced to tell them how far it will drop the stock to buy shares they plan to better price and thus increase their profitability. But to grasp the true difficulty of the task is to put the issue in perspective:

One investor who was able to know the highs and lows become a billionaire in a short space of time. For little money we have, thanks to the leverage of derivatives such as options and futures, the results would be quite spectacular.
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