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Michael Mauboussin on landing his first job
A Financial Thought Leader who has written a fascinating new book titled, The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports and Investing. Author Michael Mauboussin is the Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management as well as an award-winning Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. In his book, he analyzes how and when luck and skill intersect to produce successful results. He concludes, surprisingly, that luck plays a big role in success, as he explains here in extra with the story behind landing his first job!
Jeff Applegate
Jeffrey Applegate, Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Management, is also an avid history buff. The book he recommends to WEALTHTRACK takes us back to the early Middle Ages in England, a time of tumult and upheaval which Applegate says laid the found for the modern state and still has relevance today.
Andy Laperriere
Andy Laperriere leads I.S.I. Group’s Policy Research team which has been ranked number one by Institutional Invester Magazine for the last ten years. Andy who came to WEALTHTRACK to give us his thoughts on how the Presidential election will affect markets, also shared the title of one of his favorite election books which he discovered serendipitously on an airport layover.
A Conversation with Richard Sylla
Today we marked the 25th anniversary of the 1987 market crash. What’s changed in the 25 years since that fateful Black Monday? I asked financial historian Richard Sylla to give us some historical perspective on markets in crisis.
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