This session introduces behavioral finance which covers anchoring, over and under-reaction, overconfidence, loss aversion, herding, mental accounting, and confirmation and hindsight bias.
Joseph (Joe) Cherian is Practice Professor of Finance, Asia School of Business and Cornell University (Visiting), both of which he joined in July 2022. He was Practice Professor of Finance at the National University of Singapore (NUS) from March 2009 to June 2022.
Prior to NUS, Joe was Managing Director, Global Head and CIO of the Quantitative Strategies Group at Credit Suisse Asset Management in New York where he had direct responsibility for over US$67 billion in client assets managed to a quantitative discipline. While on Wall Street, Joe served on various senior management, investments, and risk committees in asset management. He joined the financial industry in New York after an academic career in the U.S., including as Associate Professor of Finance at Boston University.
Joe holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from MIT (1986), and an M.Sc. (1992) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in Finance from Cornell University.
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