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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

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The challenge in writing How NOT to Invest was organizing a large number of ideas, many of which were only loosely connected, into something coherent, understandable, and, most importantly, readable. How can we re-engineer our media consumption to make it more useful to our needs? Bad Numbers : 4. It is March 18th!

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MiB: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine Deputy CIO

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We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. Prior to joining DoubleLine in 2009, Sherman was a senior vice president at TCW Group Inc. He is host of the podcast The Sherman Show and a CFA charter holder.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

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What Shift EV does is it takes existing delivery vans and retrofits them in a space of a couple of hours, from internal combustion engine to electric. What do they do with the internal combustion engine and — WENGER: That’s a great question. RITHOLTZ: A couple of hours? WENGER: A couple of hours. RITHOLTZ: That’s amazing.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

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He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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Transcript: Brian Higgins, King Street

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00:02:13 [Speaker Changed] Well, actually I started out electrical engineering. First, 00:02:18 [Speaker Changed] First two years, electrical engineering. I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

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Barry Ritholtz : The the funny thing is, the behavioral aspect of mutual funds seems to have been when people finally learn about a manager who’s put up great numbers, by the time it makes to make makes it to Forbes, hey, most of that run is probably over and a little mean reversion is about to kick in.

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Transcript: Marcus Shaw

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He really began as a traditional engineer/finance person working at IBM as a network engineer before he got his MBA at Duke. Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Key brands, number one, Coca-Cola Bottling is the company that really helped to jumpstart the city. His name is Marcus Shaw.