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Aswath Damodaran on the Difference Between Pricing a Company and Valuing One, and More

The Motley Fool

It makes consultants and bankers really rich, but shareholders really poor. Market mistakes become bigger than active investors come in again. You know what happened to those companies? They become case studies that get used by Harvard, so that everybody can be sold the message you too, can be an Apple or a Microsoft.

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Transcript: Charlie Ellis

The Big Picture

I was privileged to have the responsibility for representing Greenwich Associates consulting with Wall Street firms. I had worked with Vanguard as a strategy consultant before being a director. And I was deeply convinced that this was for almost any American investor, the right way to do your investing. Interesting phenomenon.

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Transcript: Marta Norton

The Big Picture

So I leave the Bureau of Labor Statistics and I move into economic consulting. And this is distinct from management consulting, which I think a lot of people are pretty familiar with. With econ consulting, at least at the firm, I was that — it was a lot of expert witness testimony. NORTON: Right. NORTON: Yeah.

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The 25 Most Active Family Offices on Axial

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At Station, we understand that a company’s people and culture are the key to success, and we seek to work with entrepreneurs and management teams who are motivated and incentivized to execute a shared strategic vision alongside an active investor-group.”

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

And so in the 1990s, I developed the, the late 1980s, early 1990s, I developed a skillset around valuation, in particular discounted cash flow or residual income type models, along with a couple of peers out of the consulting industry. Everybody is an active investor. 00:04:02 That’s what value add software was originally.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

The Big Picture

Basically, any explanation that someone from the outside, a strategist, a pundit, a client, a consultant, or internal that we could come up with, for why we might be wrong. We’re active investors. And we stuck to our guns and even added to that tilt a bit. RITHOLTZ: Right. We think we make capital markets better.