He added that he's seen both businesses and
individuals take big risks out of greed when they should have held back.
Not exact matches
While private pension funds and mutual funds often steer stock markets in places like the United States, markets in China are more often swayed by amateur investors and well - heeled
individuals willing to
take big risks.
A new study demonstrates that negative outcomes have a greater influence on subsequent decisions than positive ones do:
individuals are more likely to
take a
big risk following a loss than they would after a gain.
This isn't meant as a knock on the
individual arts and writers, many of whom have
taken the publisher's existing franchises in a number of interesting and often times thought provoking directions — it's just that Marvel is a
big company (one now owned by a giant corporation), and as such,
risk taking is likely not atop its list of priorities.
If you're willing to
take a
bigger risk, you may want to invest in
individual stocks.
Buying
individual stocks makes a lot of sense for people who know their way around a balance sheet and who donâ $ ™ t mind
taking on a bit more
risk in pursuit of
big payoffs.
But even the simulation - based studies didn't properly
take into account the
risk tolerance of
individual investors, Jones and Stine say, which is a
big mistake.