(Photograph) - Five-year-old Tia Laverne Roberts played the stock markets and beat the professionals at their own game. In a year-long test of portfolio selection, her 5,000 fantasy investment secured an impressive 5.8 per cent return and thrashed financial analyst Mark Goodson, who saw his portfolio plunge by 46.2 per cent. Tia picked her stocks at random as part of an experiment designed by Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire. Photo: Megali Delporte.
(Photograph) - Five-year-old Tia Laverne Roberts played the stock markets and beat the professionals at their own game. In a year-long test of portfolio selection, her 5,000 fantasy investment secured an impressive 5.8 per cent return and thrashed financial analyst Mark Goodson, who saw his portfolio plunge by 46.2 per cent. Tia picked her stocks at random as part of an experiment designed by Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire.
Photo: Megali Delporte.
