The Big Picture

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. But over time, as you know, there was this big shift towards passive investing.

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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. Which is the idea that passive investors hold every security.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They could put me running a grain elevator, gosh knows where I interviewed with consulting companies and banking companies. What gave you the confidence to say, sure, I could raise some money and launch a hedge fund and have my entire income dependent on how well we do? There were all these mutual funds.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 6, 2024

Lawrence McDonald is a risk consultant, the founder of The Bear Traps Report, and the co-author of How to Listen When Markets Speak: Risks, Myths, and Investment Opportunities in a Radically Reshaped Economy. Mary Long: I'm Mary Long and that's Larry McDonald of risks consultant and founder of the Bear Traps Report.

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