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Jonathan Fell, Ash Park Capital - People Always Overestimate The Extent To Which Tobacco Is A Dying Business | #375

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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The Transition to Tobacco

I started off on the insurance team of British American tobacco. The senior insurance analyst at Meryl's looked at me one day and thought, just tobacco stuff, I don't understand, it's too complicated. Do you want to do that? And so that fell into my lap. It turned out to be actually a real stroke of luck because the sector became very interesting. A whole bunch of other companies were IPO's or demerged in Europe. So I ended up having a proper sector of my own much earlier than I might have done if I'd stayed carlider biggerteam.

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