Proximity Bias in Investors’ Portfolio Choice

• Main Authors: Lindblom, Ted (Author), Mavruk, Taylan (Author), Sjögren, Stefan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Finance.; Investment banking.; Securities.; Capital market.; Investments and Securities.; Capital Markets.

This book helps readers understand the widely documented distortion in the portfolio choice of individual investors toward proximate firms – the proximity bias phenomenon. First, it recapitulates the fundamentals of modern portfolio theory. It then goes on to describe and demonstrate different appro...