Purpose: The Department of Economics and Finance has selected FIN3504-Principles of Investments to be identified as a finance course within the university’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). As such,...

Purpose:The Department of Economics and Finance has selected FIN3504-Principles of Investments to be identified as a finance course within the university’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). As such, students are required to produce an individual artifact that advances the skills of writing, critical thinking, and information literacy. (Seehttps://www.fgcu.edu/ous/qep/for more information.)

The assignment:You, the student, will watch the video and read the chapter from the book linked below. Then you are to write a 1.5 - 2 page review of behavioral finance versus modern portfolio theory/efficient market hypothesis (EMH). Your review should include:

• a summary of behavioral finance versus EMH - from the content below or other source(s)


• your opinion/view of behavioral finance and/or EMH. ideas for this section (but not limited to these):
  
  
  • do you agree with one or the other? why? why not?
  
  
  • what areas of each do you agree/disagree with? why? why not?
  
  
  
  

This is a huge topic in the area of finance/investments, so there should be no shortage of material.

The format: You will write using active voice, in first-person when appropriate, and ensure your use complete sentences. The papers should:

• be limited to two pages (not including references or illustrations).


• be singleordouble-spaced (but don't go over two pages and if you double-space, make sure you have enough content to justify the assignment).


• utilize 12-point Times New Roman font, and “normal” 1” margins.


• format heading titles in Bold font.


• include at least one additional reference to those below (three total) on an included a reference page. Use APA for reference style, see:https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examplesfor examples.


• Watch this video...
  
  


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  https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/multimedia/2011/behavioral-finance-compared-to-efficient-markets
  

  
  

  Read the excerpt from thebook/chapter here...

  
  
  
  
  • from:https://www.cfainstitute.org/-/media/documents/book/rf-publication/2019/behavioral-finance-the-second-generation.ashx