Investors sometimes struggle with their emotions in differentiating between a loss of capital on paper, say a 20 per cent decline on your favourite stock, and with a permanent loss of capital.

In this instalment of our Investor Education Investment Series, John O’Connell explains how investors should approach both scenarios in different ways.

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