Ahmad Ashrafi published a new piece with the Forbes Finance Council: "Think Different, Invest Smarter: The Power of Independent Financial Decision-Making."
The article makes a case that sounds simple and is anything but: most investors lose money not because they lack information, but because they follow the crowd into whatever is trending. Ahmad walks through the dot-com bubble and the 2021 crypto and meme-stock wave as the same story told twice, where the fear of missing out drove people into assets they barely understood.
Independent thinking, the discipline to evaluate an opportunity on its own merits rather than on its popularity, is what separates investors who compound from investors who churn. It's the same principle that runs through everything we do at Infinity⁹. Our process is built to reject most of what we see, and that only works if the analysis stays independent of the noise.
