About the Author

James Montier is a member of the asset allocation team at GMO, London. He has been the top rated strategist in the annual Thomson Extel survey for the last five years.  He was on the 50 must-read analysts list complied by the Business magazine and has been described as a Maverick by the Sunday Times, an enfant terrible by the FAZ, the Dean of behavioural finance by the FT and a prophet by the Fast Company.  Montier is the author of three market leading books: Behavioural Finance: Insights into Irrational Minds, and Behavioural Investing, A Practitioners Guide to Applying Behavioural Finance, Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment  and was one of 12 investors featured in John Mauldin’s Just One Thing: Twelve of the World's Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can't Overlook (Wiley 2005; 9780471738732).  He is widely regarded as the leading authority on behavioural finance and his investments and analysis are regularly quoted in investment media including The Technical Analyst, Value Investing World, Micromotives, Turtletrader.com, greenlightinvestor.com, FTAdvisor, RGE Monitor, Investor Insight.com, Trade2win.com, and many more.