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exceptional investment minds
Dean LeBaron, founder of Batterymarch Financial
Management, Author and Adventure Capitalist
Dean LeBaron, founder of Batterymarch Financial
Management in 1969, directed
the firm's pioneering advances in the mid-1970s in the
application of computer
technology and modeling techniques, first in the US
market and then in
international and emerging markets. Today, Batterymarch
is one of the
investment management subsidiaries of Legg, Mason, which
manages over $250
billion through several independently operating firms.
Sparked 20 years ago by his study of the application of
physical science
principles (e.g., quantum physics) to investment
strategy, Dean pursues his
interest in complexity through Complexity Digest [www.ComDig.com],
a webzine
he publishes, and through association with the Santa Fe
Institute and the New
England Complex Systems Institute and their linking of
complex adaptive
systems to dynamic social systems, including
investments. Drawing on input
from 30 recognized experts, he has written The Ultimate
Investor and The
Ultimate Book of Investment Quotations, published in
Spring 1999 by Capstone
Ltd. In 2002, Mao, Marx & the Market, Treasury of
Investment Wisdom, and Book
of Investment Quotations were published by John Wiley &
Sons. His web site
[www.deanlebaron.com] experiments with video commentary,
speeches and
provocative financial content and has 50,000 hits per
week.
Dean LeBaron received BA and MBA degrees from Harvard
University, was a
Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School, and holds a
chartered financial
analyst designation (CFA). He lives in New England and
Switzerland.
January
21, 2010:
To listen to John Budden's Business@Night, interview with
Dean
LeBaron,
Founder of Batterymarch Financial Management
Part 1 Part 2
June 10, 2009:
To listen to John Budden's Business@Night, interview with
Dean
LeBaron,
Founder of Batterymarch Financial Management
November 25, 2008:To listen to John Budden's Business@Night, interview with
Dean
LeBaron,
Founder of Batterymarch Financial Management
Part 1 Part 2
John Embry Chief Investment Strategist
Sprott Asset Management
John Embry joined SAM as Chief Investment Strategist in March 2003
with focus on the Sprott Gold and Precious Minerals Fund and the
Sprott Strategic Offshore Gold Fund, Ltd. He plays an instrumental
role in the corporate and investment policy of the firm. Mr.
Embry, an industry expert in precious metals, has researched the
gold sector for over thirty years and has accumulated industry
experience as a portfolio management specialist since 1963.
After graduating from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor
of Commerce degree, John Embry began his investment career as a
stock selection analyst and Portfolio Manager at Great West Life.
He then became Vice President of Pension Investments for the
entire firm. After 23 years with the company, John became partner
with United Bond and Share, the investment counseling firm acquired
by Royal Bank in 1987. Since then, John was Vice-President,
Equities and Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Investment
Management, a $33 billion organization where he oversaw $5 billion
in assets, including the flagship $2.9 billion Royal Canadian
Equity Fund and the $250 million Royal Precious Metals Fund, the
#1 ranked fund across the country for its 2002 net performance of
153%.
January 12, 2010: To listen to John Budden's Business@Night interview
with
John Embry on
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September 1, 2009: To listen to John Budden's Business@Night interview
with
John Embry on
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Eric Sprott, C.A.
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Portfolio Manager
Sprott Asset Management
Eric Sprott has accumulated over 35 years of experience
in the investment
industry. After completing his undergraduate degree at
Carleton University
and earning his designation as a Chartered Accountant,
Eric entered the
investment industry as a research analyst at Merrill
Lynch. In 1981, he
founded Sprott Securities Inc. (SSI), which has become
one of Canada's
largest independently owned institutional brokerage
firms. At SSI, Eric was
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer and
directed the
investment strategy of the firm. After establishing SAM
in August 2000 as
an entity separate from SSI, Eric divested his entire
ownership of SSI to its
employees and chose to focus his sole attention on the
investment
management business.
January 15, 2010:
To listen to
Eric Sprott
and John
Budden of Business@Night in discussion
June 1, 2009:
To listen to
Eric Sprott
and John
Budden of Business@Night in discussion
Part 1 Part 2
November 26, 2008:
To listen to
Eric Sprott
and John
Budden of Business@Night in discussion
Part 1
Part 2
JB and Murray
To listen to
John Budden's
Business@Night
interview with
Murray Pollitt,
President of Pollitt
& Company,
on
January 11, 2010
To listen to
John Budden's
Business@Night
interview with
Murray Pollitt,
President of Pollitt
& Company,
on
December 21, 2009
To listen to
John Budden's
Business@Night
interview with
Murray Pollitt,
President of Pollitt
& Company,
on
October 26, 2009
Part 1 Part
2
Donald W. Lindsey,
Donald W. Lindsey
joined The George Washington University (GW) in
April 2003 as Chief Investment Officer
responsible for management of the University’s $960
million endowment.
He is also a Professorial Lecturer of Finance at GW
and teaches Applied Portfolio Management in the MBA
program.
Prior to joining GW, he established the University
of Toronto Asset Management Corporation (UTAM) in
May 2000
and served as its first President and Chief
Executive Officer. UTAM was established to manage
the University of Toronto’s
CAD$ 4.0 billion in endowment and pension assets.
He began his career with the University of Virginia
Investment Management Company in 1987, where he
served initially
as Investment Analyst and proceeded to become
Assistant Director of Investments, Senior Investment
Officer and Director.
He has taught in the McIntire School of Commerce at
the University of Virginia and the Rotman School of
Management at the University of Toronto.
In addition, he has appeared several times as a
guest on Toronto-based Report onBusiness
Television.
He holds the CFA designation, and has also taught
CFA exam preparation and other courses in Croatia,
Romania, Japan,
South Africa, Italy, the United Kingdom, and
Switzerland.
He is a member of the Investment Advisory Committee
of the Virginia Retirement System.
Mr. Lindsey holds a BA in Political Science from
Virginia Tech and an MBA from James Madison
University.
To listen to
John Budden's Business@Night
interview with Don Lindsey, Chief Investment Officer
of George Washington University's Endowment,
on
June 17, 2009
Part 1
Part 2
June 11, 2009:
To listen to Rob Snow and John Budden's
Business@Night interview with Malcolm Gladwell
author of The Outliers ... The Story of Success
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Larry Jeddeloh
Editor of The Institutional Strategist; Managing
Director and Chief
Investment Officer of TIS Group in Minneapolis.
He is an experienced investment management professional
with
over 27 years in the business. Larry founded TIS Group
in 1995.
Previously, Larry held the position of Chief Investment
Officer of Resource
Capital Advisers, with responsibilities for $1 billion
in assets. Prior to joining
Resource, he spent two years in Switzerland with the
Union Bank of Switzerland
in Zürich, where he was a Vize Director and the Chief
Investment Strategist in
the Institutional Global Asset Management Group. In the
1980s, he was Director
of Equity Research at the Leuthold Group, a well-known
institutional research
firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for seven years.
He was also a partner of Leuthold and Anderson
Investment Management
Counseling and Weeden & Company, an institutional
brokerage firm.
Larry earned his Bachelor of Science in Finance and a
Masters of Business
Administration degree from University of St. Thomas, St.
Paul, Minnesota. He
has taught courses in investments and corporate finance
at the University of
Minnesota, Northwestern College, and Augsburg College.
His work has been noted and used in various publications
such as The Wall
Street Journal, Newsweek, Forbes, Money Magazine, Your
Money, U.S. News
World Report, Barron’s, and Global Finance.
June 9
,
2009: To listen
to John Budden's Business@Night, interview
with Larry
Jeddeloh
on
currencies, interest rates and geopolitics
PURU SAXENA
Puru Saxena is the founder of Puru
Saxena Wealth Management. Vastly experienced and
respected in his field, he is a registered investment
advisor and money manager with the SFC of Hong Kong. He
conducts in-depth macro-economic research, formulates
our firm’s investment strategy and manages discretionary
investment portfolios for our clients.
Puru Saxena has over a decade’s
experience in the finance industry, specifically
relating to investment advice and asset management.
He is a regular guest on various
media such as CNN, BBC, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, RTHK, NDTV
and TVB Pearl. He is a proficient economics analyst and
is regularly featured in several publications such as
Barron’s, Hong Kong Economic Times, South China Morning
Post, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Benchmark Magazine,
Hong Kong Business, IN Magazine and Hong Kong Aircrew.
Puru Saxena is the editor and
publisher of Money Matters - an economic report, which
is read by professionals and investors in numerous
countries all over the world. He has been writing his
monthly economic newsletter since June 2000.
Puru Saxena is a frequent speaker at
investment seminars and forums. He has given speeches in
the region for large audiences of professional and
individual investors on a wide range of subjects.
Previously, he was a founding
Director of financial services company – Bridgewater
(now known as Tyche Group), and held the position of
President for 4 years. In March 2005, he left the
company to establish his own boutique wealth management
firm.
March 31, 2009:
To listen to
Puru Saxena
and John
Budden of Business@Night in discussion
Dr Michael Berry, Ph.D.
Michael Berry has been a portfolio manager for both
Heartland Advisors and Kemper Scudder where he
successfully managed small and mid cap value portfolios.
Dr. Berry has specialized in the study of behavioral
strategies for investing and has been published in a
number of academic and practitioner journals. His
definitive work on earnings surprise, with David Dreman,
was published in 1995 in the Financial Analysts Journal.
Previously, Dr. Berry was a professor of investments at
the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business
Administration at the University of Virginia and has
also held the Wheat First Endowed Chair at James Madison
University.
Dr. Berry is a respected and dynamic speaker. He
regularly presents around the world on topics such as
value investing, the role of Austrian Economics in
investment management, behavioural investing strategies
and is a specialist in developing case studies to teach
investors how to invest. While a professor, he published
a case book,
Managing Investments: A Case Approach.
He has recently focused on the role of precious metals
in the asset allocation of the individual investor.
Dr. Berry publishes Morning Notes by Michael Berry,
Ph.D. daily. This publication is distributed to
clients worldwide to identify current market
opportunities and behavioral anomalies.
To listen to John Budden's Business@Night interview
with
Dr. Michael Berry on
Wednesday,
April 18, 2008
HENRY GROPPE
Henry Groppe founded Groppe, Long & Littell in 1955. He
has 55 years of experience in the oil, natural gas and
petrochemical industries, including positions with
Arabian American Oil Company, Dow Chemical, Monsanto and
Texaco.
He is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers and has served as a charter member of the
Texas Governor’s Energy Council and a director of the
United States Energy Association (the U.S. member
committee to the World Energy Council).
Mr. Groppe is a distinguished engineering graduate of
the University of Texas and is a former officer in the
U.S. Navy.
David Strahan, former BBC journalist and author of The
Last Oil Shock, interviews oil analyst Henry Groppe
about the recent spike in oil prices on December 12,
2007.
May 17,2007: To listen
to John Budden's Business@Night, May 17, 2007 interview
with Joseph (Jay) H. Bragdon
author of Profit for Life - How Capitalism Excels...
Case Studies in Living Asset Stewardship.
Part 1
Part 2
April 27, 2005
Here’s the actual video of Paul Volcker's speech to
the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research:
"I
come now to the heart of the problem, as a Nation we
are consuming and investing, that is spending, about
6% more than we are producing. What holds it all
together? - High consumption - high leverage -
government deficits - What holds it all together is a
really massive and growing flow of capital from
abroad. A flow of capital that today runs to more than
$2 Billion per day."
