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Behavioral Finance 2.0: Behavioral Finance has generated important insights into how people actually make decisions.  However, behavioral finance predominantly studies individuals.  Today, most investment decisions are made by groups (committees, teams, boards, or less formal groups).  This conference looks at how groups and institutions make decisions.   

Understanding group and institutional behavior should help us take behavioral finance to a new level.  It should produce a better understanding of market behavior and help identify new market anomalies.  This is why we call this Behavioral Finance 2.0. 

This research provides insights into what makes committees and other groups work well or poorly.  Speakers will discuss specific ideas, based on empirical research and practical experience, of how to make groups work better.

8:15am Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:45am Welcome and Opening Remarks

Professor Nicholas Barberis, Yale University
    Psychology and the Financial Crisis

Professor Joseph Simmons, Yale University
Intuitive Biases in Choice vs. Estimation: Implications for the Wisdom of Crowds

Refreshment Break

 Min Gong, Ph.D., Columbia University, Center for Research in Environmental Decisions
Group Cooperation Under Uncertainty

 Professor John Payne, Duke University
    Investment Committees: Potential Benefits, Pitfalls, and Suggestions for Improvement

Lunch (included in registration)

Professor Reid Hastie, University of Chicago
    "What We've Got Here is a Failure to Communicate"

Professor Christopher Chabris, Union College, Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Collective Intelligence and the Group Brain

Arnold Wood, CEO, Martingale Asset Management
    Leading group discussions on Improving Investment Processes

4:45pm SQA Annual Meeting and Elections

5:00pm - 6:00pm Cocktail Reception

May 21, 2010 8:15am Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:45am - 4:45pm Program, includes lunch 4:45pm SQA Annual Meeting & Elections 5:00pm - 6:00pm Cocktails & Networking Reception Cost: $350 SQA Member; $550 Non member (includes one year free membership); $475 PRMIA Sustaining Member Pre-Registration Deadline: Monday, May 17th Location: Goldman Sachs Conference Center, 200 West Street (near Battery Park), NYC Please note: program and schedule details are subject to change

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