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Rigorous analysis is certainly not a waste of time. However, after a certain point, our knowledge on a subject seems to grow at a slower rate than our confidence level, which can lead smart people to do dumb things.

Capital Perspectives: Countering ambiguity bias By: Chas Craig Guest Columnist April 20, 2021 Chas Craig – Ralph Waldo Emerson We regularly interweave behavioral finance into this capital markets-focused column because overcoming or succumbing to our psychological tendencies can have as much to do with investment success, or the lack thereof, as does competent fundamental analysis. Specifically, excessive self-regard, over-optimism and availability misweighing were highlighted thro...

Capital Perspectives: Loss aversion revisited By: Chas Craig Guest Columnist February 23, 2021 Chas Craig “More money has probably been lost by investors holding a stock they really did not want until they could ‘at least come out even’ than from any other single reason. If to these actual losses are added the profits that might have been made through the proper reinvestment of these funds if such reinvestment had been made when the mistake was first realized, the cost of self-...