Investment Illusions

Wai Mun Fong and Benedict Koh

Chapter 25 in Managing Your Personal Finance:From Start of Career to Retirement and More, 2020, pp 173-175 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Dear David,Last week, I wrote about how stock prices can experience wild swings because of herd behaviour. Centennial and Bre-X are reminders of what can go wrong if we simply follow the crowd and invest without a mind of our own. Today’s story is on a similar theme…

Keywords: Personal Finance; Investment; Managing Money; Retirement planning; College planning; Borrowing; Buying Bonds; Investing in Real Estate; Estate Planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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