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Ep. 380: Alex Edmans on Market Bubbles, Investor Biases, and the Madness of Markets
Episode 380
Published 1 week, 6 days ago
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Alex Edmans is a Professor of Finance at London Business School and is one of the world's leading academics on company purpose, social value, and profit. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. In this podcast, we discuss:
- Amateur vs. Professional Behavioural Errors
- Direction Right, Speed Wrong in AI and Tech Bubbles
- The Limits of Contrarian Strategies
- Herding Mechanics and Social Network Traps
- Slow Uptake on Corporate Intangibles
- Subtle C-Suite Tells: AGMs and Corporate Jets
- Arithmetic Misreactions and Narrow Framing
- The Anchoring Trap & Disposition Bias
- Overconfidence in Amateur Stock-Picking
- Exploiting a Long Investment Horizon