Rational route to investment returns
[Sponsored Article] Think you make considered and rational choices when it comes to your investments? Well even the members of a financially knowledgeable audience were given pause for thought when Professor Utpal Bhattacharya and Professor Philip Cheng from HKUST’s Department of Finance shared their research findings and ideas at the first of the Business School’s Lunch Presentation Series 2018.

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Think you make considered and rational choices when it comes to your investments? Well even the members of a financially knowledgeable audience were given pause for thought when Professor Utpal Bhattacharya and Professor Philip Cheng from HKUST’s Department of Finance shared their research findings and ideas at the first of the Business School’s Lunch Presentation Series 2018.
Their always fascinating, and frequently amusing, lunchtime seminar was titled ‘How different factors affect financial behavior and portfolio management’. While Professor Bhattacharya pointed out some of the psychological pitfalls to avoid when investing, Professor Cheng outlined a more reliable and profitable strategy than those usually used by private investors.

Psychology and Finance
Behavioral finance specialist Professor Bhattacharya is a non-believer when it comes to the notion of rational finance. Instead he takes insights from cognitive psychology to explain puzzling asset price fluctuations. In his talk, he illustrated his ideas through three examples from his research.