Investment psychology
(kierunek: Global Finance)

• Programme: investment-focused modules
• Specialisation: how investors think
• After graduation: roles after graduation

Investment psychology is a specialisation on the Global Finance bachelor's programme (first-cycle studies) at WSB Merito University in Gdańsk. It is for people who want to understand what drives investors' decisions, from private individuals to funds and investment banks.

Programme: investment-focused modules

The specialisation modules include financial market instruments, psychology of investment decisions and investment risk assessment. You also study technical analysis of financial markets, alternative investments and investment strategies in practice. Among the general degree subjects, basics of psychology, basics of investment and corporate finance are also on the programme.

Specialisation: how investors think

In this specialisation you learn about:

• the psychology of individual investors, including the motives behind their decisions, how these differ from the decisions of professional investors, and how emotions and biases affect them
• the psychology of institutional investors, such as investment funds and investment banks, and the factors that shape their strategies and decisions
• investor motivations, both the desire for profit and other drivers such as the need for control, prestige or status
• aggressive and conservative behaviour in investing, and why some investors take bolder decisions while others prefer safer options

After graduation: roles after graduation

You can work as an investment adviser, helping clients make financial decisions with strategies tailored to their needs, or as a trader who buys and sells financial instruments on exchanges and other financial markets. A financial psychologist helps people who struggle with emotions linked to investing, such as fear of loss, addiction to financial gambling or excessive greed.

Other roles are behavioural finance specialist, who studies how human emotions and biases influence financial decisions and works in consulting firms, financial institutions or banks; risk management consultant, who helps companies identify and assess the risks of investments, markets or operations; and analyst of financial market psychology, who analyses and forecasts investor behaviour.

Based on the specialisation page at merito.pl.