The investor’s biggest risk may not be the market, it’s themselves

Posted by Anton Murray Consulting on 17 Sep, 2026

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From SpaceX to SK Hynix, this year’s wildest trades show that the biggest risk to a portfolio isn’t the market, it’s the investor holding it. Never before have investors had access to so much information. Real-time prices, company announcements, economic data, analyst research, social media commentary, and sophisticated analytical tools are available almost instantly. AI adds another layer, capable of processing information and identifying patterns at a speed no individual investor can match.

Yet more information has not necessarily produced better investment decisions. If anything, the proliferation of information makes one of investing’s oldest challenges more pronounced: managing our own behaviour. When every price move is accompanied by commentary and every successful investor appears to have the next winning trade, it becomes harder to separate useful information from noise.

The rest of this article can be found at investordaily.com.au.

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