The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A company is a legal entity. It makes consultants and bankers really rich, but shareholders really poor. Market mistakes become bigger than active investors come in again. In a big chunk of this book is to show that people assume that if you have great management, you can live forever. Can good management delay aging?

Companies 246

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 28, 2022

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. That’s legally.

Mutual Funds 75

Mutual Funds Consulting Consultants Funds 75

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

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. It was a demanding work.

Mutual Funds 52

Mutual Funds Assets Taxes Consulting 52

The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

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. They’ve been given dispensation by regulators because they’re index investors.

Asset Management 69

Asset Management Assets Mutual Funds Bidding 69