Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Common Investing Pitfalls That Can Separate You from Financial Security and Success Chapter 2. Common Stock Pitfalls That Can Lead to Big Losses   Chapter 3. Mutual Fund and ETF Pitfalls: What the Industry Won’t Tell You  Chapter 4. Self-Inflicted Pitfalls: The Dangers of Psychological Biases  Chapter 5. Investment Schemes Designed to Separate You from Your Money  Chapter 6. Other Frauds and Scams that Lure Unsuspecting Investors

About the Author

H. Kent Baker, DBA, Ph.D, CFA, CMA, is University Professor of Finance in the Kogod School of Business at American University. He is an award-winning author/editor of 34 books and more than 300 other publications. John R. Nofsinger, Ph.D, is the William H. Seward Endowed Chair in International Finance at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is the author/editor of 12 books and about 70 articles in scholarly journals. He is most widely known in the areas of behavioral finance, socially responsible investing, and biology of finance.  Vesa Puttonen, Ph.D, is Professor of Finance at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki. He has worked as senior vice president at the Helsinki Stock Exchange and as managing director at Conventum Asset Management.