A decade ago historian Niall Ferguson launched Greenmantle LLC, a macroeconomic and geopolitical advisory firm that advises top hedge funds and other investment firms on historical analogies to contemporary events to help them make informed investment decisions. He discusses the reasons and benefits of being in the investment business.
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GRANTHAM: INDEX PIONEER
Legendary value investor Jeremy Grantham discusses his early, pioneering adoption of index investing and its advantages and disadvantages.
ROSENBERG: PERSEVERANCE UNDER PRESSURE
Influential economist and strategist Dave Rosenberg has had several times in his career, most notably at the height of the tech bubble in 2000 and another leading up to the global financial crisis in 2007, when he was so out of consensus by being bearish that his colleagues and clients pressured him to change his forecasts.
STANEK – OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Mary Ellen Stanek and her team took an unusual route during COVID. They kept their offices open for business. She explains why they made that choice and how it worked out.
ROMICK – PANDEMIC IMPACT
Steven Romick and the FPA Crescent team were convinced early on that life would return to normal after COVID; they just didn’t know when. Romick describes how they coped and what’s changed.
LIPPERT: LIFE LESSONS
High-performing portfolio manager Michael Lippert is taking the hard lessons learned from a life-threatening accident back in 2015 and applying them to the pandemic experience.
