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Given the new economic and market realities prevailing since the 2008 great recession, including employment opportunities as a business executive, first list, and then explain in needed details four (4) of the top Behavioral Finance lessons learned that can be of value going forward. I emphasize going forward because my goal in this question is to see how the lessons learned can be applied to make decisions in a workplace now or in the future. This also means you must answer this question from the perspective of your job; your present job or a job that you envision you may have later on.

Make sure you answer this question in light of the post-2008 economic and financial realities. Don't be afraid to "take risk" in answering this question

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Given the new economic and market realities prevailing since the 2008 great recession, including employment opportunities as a business executive, first list, and then explain in needed details four (4) of the top Behavioral Finance lessons learned that can be of value going forward. I emphasize going forward because my goal in this question is to see how the lessons learned can be applied to make decisions in a workplace now or in the future. This also means you must answer this question from the perspective of your job; your present job or a job that you envision you may have later on.
Make sure you answer this question in light of the post-2008 economic and financial realities. Don't be afraid to "take risk" in answering this question

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The first very important lesson that we learned from the economic weakness in 2008 is myopic loss aversion. When the investors saw their fundamentally strong stocks lose value they decided to sell of their strong shares. The prices of these shares actually dipped but later they bounced back. The investors realized they had sold off their shares too quickly. Myopic loss aversion is a combination of loss aversion with a tendency to monitor one's wealth. In future the stock holders should be wary of linking their personal wealth to the current share prices and making sudden decisions. Those stocks that had ...

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