Behavioral finance is a field of research focused on how psychological influences can affect market outcomes.
Behavioral finance can be analyzed to understand different outcomes in different sectors and industries.
One of the key aspects of behavioral finance research is the impact of psychological biases.
Some common financial behaviors include loss aversion, consensus tendencies, and familiarity tendencies.
The Efficient Market Theory, which states that all stocks are fairly valued based on all available public information, is often refuted because it does not include irrational emotional behavior.
Risk acceptance or risk containment is a conscious strategy of recognizing the possibility of small or rare risks without taking measures to hedge, hedge or avoid these risks.
Arbitrageurs are investors who exploit market inefficiencies of any kind. They are necessary to ensure that inefficiencies between markets are smoothed out or kept to a minimum.
Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) are financial securities backed by income-producing assets such as credit card receivables, home equity loans, student loans, and auto loans.
Audit risk is the risk that the financial statements will be materially incorrect, even if the auditor’s report indicates that the financial statements do not contain any material misstatement.
A beneficial owner is a person who enjoys the benefits of ownership, despite the fact that the ownership of the property is registered in a different name.
The bid-ask spread is the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay for an asset and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept.
The Bloomberg terminal, developed by businessman Michael Bloomberg, is a popular hardware and software system that allows investors to access real-time market data, investment analytics and their own trading platforms.