Oct. 17, Wednesday -- Psychological traits that serve us well in everyday life may be counterproductive when it comes to sound investing, according to Brad Barber, a professor of finance at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Barber, an expert in investor psychology, will discuss these potentially troublesome traits in the first Policy Watch lecture of the 2007-08 academic year.

Sponsored by the UC Davis Institute of Governmental Affairs, the lecture, "Psychological Biases of Individual Investors," is free and open to the public. It takes place from 12:10 p.m. to 1 p.m. in the IGA Reading Room, 360 Shields Library, on the UC Davis campus.

Barber's scholarly articles have appeared in many publications including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Sociological Review, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Financial Analyst Journal. His research has been covered extensively in the popular press, including Business Week, Time, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, NBC Nightly News, CNN, CNNfn and CNBC. In addition, he is a regular speaker at academic and practitioner conferences.

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