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Training course overview
The decisions we make significantly influence our company's financial health. In today’s economy, understanding how financial markets react to new data is crucial for investors and business managers. Beyond fundamental analysis, market sentiment and investor psychology play key roles in financial decision-making. This Coventry Academy training course on Behavioral Finance explores the psychological factors that affect financial practitioners, focusing on various decision-making biases and information processing errors.
Participants will delve into topics such as:
- Modern portfolio theory and the concept of the rational investor.
- Emotional finance and its impact on decision-making.
- The psychology of risk and common behavioral biases.
- Behavioral corporate finance and its implications for organizations.
- Insights into investor behavior.
What are the goals?
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Define behavioral finance and its implication on financial markets
- Identify the investor psychology and analyze trading biases
- Understand cognitive biases and explore their root causes with real life examples
- List the most common emotional biases and discuss their causes with examples
- Understand loss aversion and other biases that contribute to its effect
- Study the herding bias and other social factors that distort decision-making
Who is this training course for?
This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Board level members who wish to develop their understanding of cognitive financial decisions
- Investment Professionals working with Financial sector
- Risk Management directors
- Financial Analysts
- Capital Markets officials
- Professionals seeking to develop their understanding of Behavioral Finance
- Equity Sales and Portfolio Managers
How will this training course be presented?
This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes:
- Interactive Case Studies from the real world/delegates’ company
- Discussion and Evaluation of the latest international tools & techniques
- Role play
- Pre & Post Course Assessments
Participants will also be given a detailed set of handouts and examples in both printed and electronic format
Course Outline
Day One: Introduction to Behavioral Finance
- Conceptual definition of finance : Hard versus Soft Finance
- Understand the financial system operators: Arbitrageurs, Speculators and Hedgers
- What is behavioral finance?
- Traditional portfolio theory – A brief recap
- The risk profiles of investors: Risk neutral, Risk Takers and Risk Adverse
- Market sentiment & Stock market crashes
Day Two: Behavioural Finance: Application of Psychology in Financial Decisions
- Heuristics or Rules of Thumb
- Neuroeconomics and Neurofinance
- Emotional Finance: The Role of the Unconscious in Financial Decisions
- Experimental Finance
- The Psychology of Risk
- Psychological Influences on Financial Regulation and Policy
Day Three: Asset Pricing and Behavioural Biases
- Market Inefficiency
- Belief- and Preference-Based Models
- Disposition Effect
- Overconfidence
- Familiarity Bias
- Limited Attention & other behavioral biases
Day Four: Behavioural Corporate Finance
- Financing Decisions
- Capital Budgeting and Other Investment Decisions
- Dividend Policy Decisions
- Loyalty, Agency Conflicts, and Corporate Governance
- Initial Public Offerings
- Mergers and Acquisitions
Day Five: Investor Behaviour
- Trust Behavior: The Essential Foundation of Financial Markets
- Individual Investor Trading
- Cognitive Abilities and Financial Decisions
- Pension Participant Behavior
- Institutional Investors
- Derivative Markets
The certificate
- Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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