Navigating Uncertainty: Lessons from Academia to Investment

This chapter explores the speaker's transition from academia to investment, emphasizing the parallels between poker and decision-making under uncertainty. It highlights the importance of personal strengths in investment strategies and the need to understand market narratives, using Amazon as a case study.

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Trey chats with Dr. Graeme Forster. Together they discuss the success of legendary investors such as Jim Simons & Orbis' founder Allan Gray, Graeme's shift from mathematics to value investing, and much more!

Graeme is the Director and Portfolio Manager of Orbis, which currently manages around $30B.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

01:30 - Graeme’s journey from mathematics to value investing, & exploring legendary investors like Jim Simons.

26:14 - How Orbis’ founder and billionaire Allan Gray’s investing flexibility led to his success.

36:35 - How Graeme balances the macro with a bottoms up approach.

52:11 - A thesis which Graeme calls the Great Misallocation.

58:40 - How good & cheap companies outperform especially during bear markets.

Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.

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The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky.
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel.
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