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The Value Perspective with James Montier

The Value Perspective

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The Importance of Focusing on What Matters

I was like why do I care about how this thing works all I need to know is you know how much is the company actually worth how much am I paying for it rather than hey look this little chip does it. As Paul Slovic gave bookmakers more and more information so their confidence soared, he found. All this extra information they were gathering wasn't improving their performance in the slightest just making them more and more confident. Corporate managers are just as likely as the rest of us to suffer cognitive illusions and guess what they're going to be over confident too. Every manager you ever meet is going to be more optimistic about their firm than they are about everybody else's firm. We have a

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