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It’s Different This Time – Market Bubbles
By InvestingNook  •  December 1, 2015

Very often, we would hear the term ‘It’s Different This Time’ during a market bubble. The term ‘bubble’ in a financial context, generally refers to a situation where the price for an asset exceeds its fundamental value by a large margin. During a bubble, prices for a financial asset or asset class are highly inflated, bearing little relation to the intrinsic value of the asset.

However, how can I prove that something is a bubble? After all, bubbles are usually identified only in retrospect, after the bubble has burst. A basic characteristic of bubbles is the suspension of disbelief by most participants during the this phase. There is a failure to recognise that investors are engaged in a speculative exercise which is not supported by sound valuation techniques. As a result, the cry of ‘bubble’ is more often proven wrong than right.

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As Co-Founder and Fund Manager of Heritage Global Capital Fund, we started InvestingNook as a website dedicated to sharing the knowledge of value investing – allowing our readers achieve an edge over the markets with the knowledge of value investing.
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