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The pillars of finance : the misalignment of finance theory and investment practice /

In The Pillars of Finance, author and finance expert Guy Fraser-Sampson challenges the fundamental conventions of modern finance. He asserts that, at its core, finance is not the highly scientific, modern discipline that most would claim, but has in fact stood still for the past 50 years. Central to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fraser-Sampson, Guy (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Finance.
Investment analysis.
Investments.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introductory Chapter
  • 2. Do we Approach Finance Scientifically?
  • 3. Logic and Emotion
  • 4. Objectivity and Subjectivity in Finance
  • 5. Problems with Thinking, Feeling and Perceiving Finance
  • 6. Return
  • 7. Risk
  • 8. Value
  • 9. The Need for a New Approach
  • 10. Accepting Lack of Knowledge and Understanding
  • 11. Modernist Finance
  • 12. The Modernist Investor.