Introduction

Victor Haghani – Missing Billionaires w/ ex-LTCM partner & Elm Wealth Founder Victor Haghani started his career in 1984 at Salomon Brothers, where he became an MD in the bond arbitrage group run by John Meriwether. Victor was a co-founding partner of LTCM. In 2011, Victor founded Elm Wealth to help clients, including his own family, manage and preserve their wealth with a thoughtful, research-based, and cost-effective approach that covers not just investment management but also broader decisions about wealth and finances.   In his TEDx talk, Where Are All the Billionaires and Why Should We Care? Victor shares his unique perspective on active versus passive investing. Victor has been a prolific contributor to the academic and practitioner finance literature. He is a co-author of the book, The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions, which has just been released and is available on amazon and most other book sellers.   We talk about Victor’s childhood, upbringing, and fascinating career. He shares his thoughts about managing his own wealth, and what he learned in the process. We focus on the missing billionaires as he calls them in his Ted talk and his book – given the fortunes that existed a hundred years ago, we should have many more billionaire inheritors and we don’t – it’s the ages old challenges of staying rich, and keeping a multi-generational fortune. We discuss position sizing, and asset allocation, how much should be invested in stocks. Victor shares some surprising learnings from a coin flipping competition study.   Stay tuned until the end if your are curious to hear Victor share a story of his very last Liar’s Poker hand at Salomon Brothers…   https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Billionaires-Better-Financial-Decisions/dp/1119747910/ www.elmwealth.com NEVER INVESTMENT ADVICE.