While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.
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It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.
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| Birth: | 18th April, 1960 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Economist, Professor |
About
Andrew Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a leading authority on hedge funds and financial engineering; he proposed the adaptive market hypothesis. Lo is the author of several academic articles in Finance and Financial economics. Lo is the director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the NASD's Economic Advisory Board, and founder and chief scientific officer of AlphaSimplex Group, a quantitative investment management company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is an associate editor of the Financial Analysts Journal, The Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Computational Finance, and Statistica Sinica. He is a former governor of the Boston Stock Exchange. He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
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