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Investor Confidence Is Fast Approaching 'Invulnerable Extremes': Peter Atwater

The Contrarian Investor Podcast

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How I Got My Start in Investing

Peter O'Mara: My elevator story is that right out of college I went to work for JP Morgan in the early 1980s. When I turned 45 my son said dad you're halfway to 90 and I said whoa. And so I stopped working wasn't quite sure what it was I wanted to do next. Next turned out to be working with some hedge funds helping them navigate the 2008 financial crisisHaving been a bank treasurer knowing a lot about securitization worked with regulators rating agency. Pretty pretty good sense of how crisis the crisis was going to play out. What I didn't realize was why the markets bottomed in 2009 given the hopelessness that I saw.

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