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Top Reads this Week (21 July)
By Financial Horse  •  July 21, 2019

Rounding up top reads from around the web, including articles shared by fellow investors in the Financial Horse Facebook Group.

The 8 Key Concepts of Behavioural Finance (The Babylonians)

The key concepts of behavioural finance studies why humans make irrational decisions when it comes to investing. It seeks to combine human psychology and traditional finance. It explains why the majority of investors lose money, including myself. The 8 concepts are:

Anchoring Overreaction and the Availability Bias Mental Accounting Confirmation and Hindsight Bias Gambler’s Fallacy Herd Behaviour Overconfidence Prospect Theory & Loss Aversion Thoughts on the Ascott REIT and Ascendas-HT Merger (ProButterfly)

After reviewing this merger, we think that CapitaLand has structured a fairly well-balanced deal for unitholders on both sides of the equation. Existing Ascott REIT unitholders would

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