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...Terrance Odean, a finance professor at the University of California at Berkeley who has studied day traders, says more education is needed....
...Men often fall prey to impatience, as Terrance Odean, a professor at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, found back in the 1990s....
...One study, by Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, looked at the investments of 65,000 ordinary retail investors in the early 1990s, a time of sharply rising markets....
...In 2000, Brad Barber and Terrance Odean studied the trading performance of more than 65,000 retail investors with accounts at a large discount broker....
...That is drawing attention from investors, “primarily from foundations, endowments and sovereign wealth funds”, says Terrance Gray, managing director at DB Advisors, formerly Deutsche Asset Management....
...Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced....
...Nobody cares, nobody hedges the value of their homes – although it is not hard to do so – and nobody seems to compare the price to any meaningful alternative, such as retiring 15 years early....
...According to the Investment Company Institute, US equity funds had an inflow of $27bn in February; monthly sales peaked at more than $50bn in early 2000....
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