by Alyssa A. Lappen and Heidi L. Schneider
The Journal of Wealth Management | Fall 2000 | Vol. 3, No. 2
https://jwm.pm-research.com/content/3/2
https://jwm.pm-research.com/content/3/2/9
Old Wine in a New Bottle_fall.2000
Noting that, in recent years, dozens of academic articles have been written on the subject of behavioral finance, the authors first propose a brief review of the literature and argue that its main message is that behavioral factors affect virtually every aspect of finance—from prices of individual stocks to absolute returns and from individual retirement planning to investor confidence. Yet, they identify a void with respect to discussions as to how active portfolio managers have long applied behavioral finance to the investment process. They go on to explain some market anomalies created as a result of human error and detail a few ways in which portfolio managers can use behavioral observations to manage client’ funds.
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Alyssa A. Lappen
Alyssa A. Lappen is a U.S.-based investigative journalist. She is the former Managing Editor at the Leeb Group (2012-2017); a former Senior Fellow of the American Center for Democracy (2005-2008); and a former Senior Editor of Institutional Investor (1993-1999), Working Woman (1991-1993) and Corporate Finance (1991). She served six of her 12 years at Forbes (1978-1990) as an Associate Editor. Ms. Lappen was also a staff reporter at The New Haven Register (1975-1977). During a decade as a freelance, her work appeared in Big Peace, Pajamas Media, Front Page Magazine, American Thinker, Right Side News, Family Security Matters, the Washington Times and many other Internet and print journals. Ms. Lappen also contributed to the Terror Finance Blog, among others. She supports the right of journalists worldwide to write without fear or restriction on politics, governments, international affairs, terrorism, terror financing and religious support for terrorism, among other subjects. Ms. Lappen is also an accomplished poet. Her first full-length collection, The Minstrel's Song, was published by Cross-Cultural Communications in April 2015. Her poems have been published in the 2nd 2007 edition of Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust and both 2007 issues of Wales' award-winning Seventh Quarry: Swansea Poetry Magazine. Dozens of her poems have appeared in print and online literary journals and books. She won the 2000 annual Ruah: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry chapbook award and has received a Harvard Summer Poetry Prize and several honorable mentions.