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Emotional investments in surgical decision making
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 2002Gordon Smyth had a deep emotional investment in closed cavity surgery for cholesteatoma but, nonetheless, later acknowledged that he believed that he had been mistaken. Emotional investments create problems for all surgeons. Sometimes they have difficulty in recognizing that they need to change what they are doing.
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Making Better (Investment) Decisions
The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2014This article covers a non-financial topic that is nonetheless vital to investment professionals: how to avoid common cognitive errors and make better investment decisions. It reviews the extensive academic literature on how people actually make decisions and how they can make better decisions.
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An Investment Decision Making System
Interfaces, 1975This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a system for the management of pension funds by a large institutional investor. As a direct result of this management science based system, which had been in operation for over three years prior to this study, the jobs of security analysts, portfolio managers and the management of the ...
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Making Investment Decisions with NPV
2013The previous chapters have set out the basic model of a business case using the net present value (NPV) technique. While the model is simple and straightforward, it can very well manage to cope with all kinds of complexity that real-life investment decisions throw at the business case team.
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Aristotle on Investment Decision Making
CFA Institute Conference Proceedings, 2005In this age of inexpensive and abundant data, investors must remain mindful of the limitations of the data they are using for their investment decisions. Despite widespread problems with the quality, timeliness, and relevance of financial and economic data, many investors accept and react to these data at face value. Often, further analysis of the data
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Investment Motives and Decision-Making
1998This chapter has two related themes. First, it examines the motives of business angels: why do they use some of their personal wealth to invest in unquoted companies? Investing in unquoted SMEs differs in a variety of respects from most other forms of investment open to private investors.
Annareetta Lumme +2 more
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Outsourcing Investment Decision Making
2014As we have discussed, good governance exists when the board and investment committee are allowed to focus on issues that impact the long-term objectives of the fund, rather than being responsible for investment decisions. Part of good governance is simply acknowledging the fact that managing investable assets is a full-time job, and not some collateral
Michael Bunn, Zack Campbell
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Investment Decision-Making in Yugoslavia
1988Investment decision-making in Yugoslavia has undergone many changes, directly connected with the development of the planning system. These changes have followed a firm dedication to strengthening a socialist and self-managed society, as well as responding to the problems arising in the course of Yugoslavia’s social and economic development. After 1945,
Jadranko Bendeković, Ivan Teodorović
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Decision Making and the Investment Horizon
1998Mean-variance and stochastic dominance efficiency analysis, the stock’s beta, and portfolio performance measures are all based on rates of return: historical rates of return in the case of ex-post analysis or true rates of return in the case of ex-ante analysis. In turn, rates of return are calculated on the basis of the investment horizon.
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