According to the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), all available information is already reflected in share prices. Thus investors shouldn’t bother with stock picking — because alpha is too arbitrary or requires excessive risk — and embrace a nicely diversified passive index instead.

As a rebuttal of EMH and a good case study of market behaviour, there’s Adcorp Holdings, a JSE-listed small-cap staffing business...

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