Institute of Psychology and Investing

BIOGRAPHY

Richard Geist is President of The Institute of Psychology and Investing, Inc., established to provide consultation to brokerage firms, money managers, financial planners, and small companies in the areas of management consultation, psychological stress, impact of psychology on investor performance, risk, public relations and marketing, and planner or broker/client relationships. He publishes and edits a micro-cap market newsletter, Richard Geist's Strategic Investing, which integrates the psychological aspects of investing into a five to ten year strategy for selecting small company stocks. He received his undergraduate degree and his doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University and is Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and Founding Member and Faculty, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has presented papers on issues such as The Psychology of Investor Mistakes, Psychological Stresses of Managing Money, The Emotions of Risk, Interviewing Management, Herd Mentality, and Broker/Client Relationships. Dr. Geist is Co-Editor of The Psychology of Investing (Wiley, 1999), and on the Board of Directors of the Institute of Psychology and Markets and the Investors Research Institute, and a member of Dick Davis Publishing Editor’s Roundtable. Dr. Geist is a also Co-Director of Harvard Medical School’s annual Psychology of Investor Conference. He writes independent research reports for small and emerging companies.

Richard Geist's Strategic Investing has been published since January 1993. Geist's recommendations have been featured in Dick Davis Digest, Investor's Digest, Gene Marcial's Inside Wall Street Column in Business Week, Fortune Magazine, Bull and Bear, and The Wall Street Journal. His market commentary and thoughts on the psychology of investing have also been quoted in Barron's, Harvard Magazine, Financial Planning Magazine, Forbes, New York Times, and USA Today; and he has appeared on CNN, CNBC, NBC, PBS, Fox Network,Bloomberg Television, and numerous radio programs around the country. Dr. Geist has also been a special guest on Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street Week. He lectures extensively on the psychology of investing and investing in the small cap and micro-cap market.