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Behavioural Finance: Overcome Your Emotions and Build Wealth
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Rating: 4.8 out of 5(35 ratings)
101 students

Behavioural Finance: Overcome Your Emotions and Build Wealth

Master investor psychology, avoid costly biases, and build a disciplined system for smart investing and wealth creation
Last updated 5/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand what Behavioral Finance is and how it differs from traditional finance
  • Identify common emotional biases like fear, greed, overconfidence, herd behavior, and loss aversion
  • Learn about heuristics and mental shortcuts that lead to flawed financial decisions
  • Explore real-world case studies including the 2008 Financial Crisis and market bubbles
  • Gain practical strategies to recognize and reduce irrational financial behavior
  • Improve your ability to make sound, data-driven, and psychologically aware decisions
  • Develop a resilient investment mindset to avoid common traps that lead to financial disaster

Course content

5 sections21 lectures3h 0m total length
  • Welcome Note0:35
  • Promo5:30
  • Preview2:33
  • What is Behavioral Finance?5:05
  • Why Behavior affects Finance but not Accounting?8:27
  • Prospect Theory and the Origin of Behavioral Finance14:15
  • Relevance and Application of Behavioral Finance in today's Financial World13:19

Requirements

  • Though not a pre-requisite, Basic knowledge of Finance would help understand this subject better

Description

Why do intelligent investors make irrational financial decisions?

Welcome to “Behavioral Finance: Decoding Psychology of Money Management,” a practical and insightful course that reveals the psychological traps, cognitive biases, and emotional factors that influence how we manage money.

If you've ever asked yourself:

  • Why do investors panic during market crashes?

  • Why do people chase risky assets during market booms?

  • Why do smart people make poor financial choices, even when they have all the data?

This course has the answers. It combines behavioral psychology, investment science, and real-world case studies to help you make more informed, rational, and confident financial decisions.


What You Will Learn:

  • What Behavioral Finance is and how it differs from traditional finance

  • Key cognitive biases like Confirmation Bias, Anchoring, Overconfidence, Loss Aversion, Herd Mentality, and more

  • Mental shortcuts (heuristics) that distort investment decisions

  • How emotions like fear and greed sabotage rational investing

  • Real-life examples and case studies of financial misjudgments

  • Strategies to overcome irrational behavior and improve money management

  • How to develop a psychologically aware and resilient investment mindset


Who Should Take This Course?

This course is perfect for:

  • Retail Investors looking to improve their financial decision-making

  • Finance and MBA Students who want to understand the human side of markets

  • Financial Advisors & Wealth Managers helping clients through emotional investing

  • Traders and Portfolio Managers aiming to avoid cognitive traps

  • Psychology and Finance Enthusiasts curious about behavioral economics and decision science


About the Instructor:

This course is taught by Col (Dr) Shabbar Shahid, a disciplined  Army veteran, MBA (Finance) topper, and Doctorate in Management. With decades of teaching experience and a track record as a Distinguished Instructor, he delivers insights in a clear, practical, and engaging manner.


Why Enroll in This Course?

  • Gain clarity on financial behavior that most investors overlook

  • Learn to identify and manage emotional investing

  • Boost your ability to make sound, data-driven investment decisions

  • Apply behavioral insights across stock markets, crypto, personal finance, and more

  • Stay ahead in volatile markets by recognizing bias before it costs you money


End Result & Key Takeaways:

By the end of this course, you will:

  • Understand how psychology affects investment behavior

  • Recognize your own biases and blind spots

  • Apply behavioral finance principles to reduce risk and improve returns

  • Become a more rational, confident, and successful investor


Important Note: This course is educational and not focused on tips or quick profits. The goal is to equip you with lasting decision-making frameworks based on behavioral science.

Who this course is for:

  • Finance Professionals
  • Accountants
  • Retail Investors seeking to improve personal investment outcomes
  • Finance and MBA Students wanting to understand the human side of financial markets
  • Financial Advisors and Wealth Managers aiming to guide clients through emotional market cycles
  • Traders and Portfolio Managers who want to reduce impulsive or biased decisions
  • Anyone interested in behavioral psychology, decision-making, and financial literacy