Curing the curse of the bandwagon effect before the next crisis
By John Wasik During a market crisis, when everyone wants to jump off the ship in the same leaky lifeboats, that doesn’t bode well for most individual investors, who simply want to preserve capital. The safeguard is to move against what behavioral finance experts call the “bandwagon effect” — when so many investors follow the same path [...]
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