The Long View Will Danoff: Succeeding at Scale
Our guest this week is Will Danoff. Will runs a number of Fidelity equity strategies, best known of which is Fidelity Contrafund, a mutual fund he has been managing since September 1990. During his nearly three-decade tenure at Contrafund, Will has trounced the market indexes and, even more remarkably, managed to maintain the fund's performance at scale. Indeed, Contrafund was recently home to more than $120 billion in assets and has ranked among the world's largest funds for many years. For his accomplishments, Morningstar named Will its Domestic-Stock Manager of the Year in 2007. Prior to becoming a portfolio manager, Will served as a retail analyst at Fidelity and for a time as assistant portfolio manager at Fidelity Magellan. He's a graduate of Harvard University and earned his MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We're thrilled to have him as our guest.
Background
Inspirations
“Letters”, Fidelity Investments TV commercial
Meetings with Management
Idea Generation
Salesforce Dreamforce conference
Circle of Competence
Michael O’Leary, Michael Cawley bios
Portfolio Construction
Investing in Private Firms
Securities and Exchange Commission’s “Investment Company Liquidity Risk Management Program”