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John Stroud, co-founder and managing partner of NRJ Capital.

Today is a very special episode with the founder of Hermitage Capital, Bill Browder. Hermitage was once one of the largest investment funds in Russia - listen to the story and much more on this world famous investor and activist below

Thornburg Investment Management with Connor Browne and Bimal Shah

Elizabeth Lilly, the founder and president of Crocus Hill Partners talks micro cap value hunting

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Nick Cowan is the Founder and Managing Director of GSX Limited. Prior to this he was a professional trader working at NJC Trading and was Global Head of Equity trading at ING. He also served as a managing director at Bear Stearns UK.

Mike Kerins, CFA, FRM. Mike founded and is the CEO of RobustWealth, a financial technology company, which provides financial advisors an institutional-quality robo-investments solutions. In today’s episode we discuss the present state of financial advisors, the problems facing them, and his company Robust Wealth.

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Today is a very special episode back with Rachel Carpenter, founder and CEO of Intrinio.com. Intrinio is helping make financial information accessible and affordable for everyone who uses financial information or who would like financial information. In today’s episode we discuss the latest features of Intrinio and the stories of the early days.

1:18 – What are the new developments?

2:50 – How does the financial modeling function work?

5:00 – Can you tell me about the excel add-in and the stock screener as well?

8:41 – What are the new tools for the developers?

12:02 – How is the developer program progressing and what are some of the apps that they are building?

15:33 – What is the blogger program and how does that work?

17:13 – Tell me about the early days and bootstrapping efforts?

23:33 – What were the early days like in terms of customer acquisition?

27:17 – How important is customer service and what did you learn from making over 2500 calls?

29:22 – Anything that you learned to help make your product better?

31:26 – What is your advice to entrepreneurs and how to incorporate customer feedback?

33:09 – Is being located in Florida a competitive advantage?

35:37 – What are the key business lessons you have learned so far?

37:43 – What lessons have you learned as CEO and founder?

39:32 – Your thoughts on blockchain

41:20 – What are you excited most coming 2018?

Enjoy and thanks for the listen!

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Today is a very special episode with one of my all time favorites, Professor Damodaran. He teaches Corporate Finance and Valuation at the Stern School of Business at New York University. In this episode we discuss many topics with an emphasis on what makes a good investor and the need to be honest with yourself.

1:23 – Can you tell me about your background and what led you to finance and teaching?

1:44 – You recently came out with the 3rd edition of the “Dark Side of Valuation”, can you tell me the new updates?

3:46 – Should investors be afraid of uncertainty or embrace it?

4:45 – What are the core principles in determining intrinsic value?

6:51 – There is a chapter that I liked that talked about the difference between valuing and pricing, between an investor and a trader, can you talk about that?

8:47 – How should beginning investors or people in the profession stay honest and stay consistent with what they doing and within their process?

12:03 – How would you define skill in investing?

14:23 – What would your advice be for the millennials surrounded by all these financial products?

17:42 – Can you tell me more about your decision process (value relative to price)?

21:25 – What about when investors say let them ride?

25:05 – What are your views on factor based investing?

28:18 – Can valuation be automated?

32:10 – What are your views on short selling?

39:40 – How should beginning investors should view investing and preserving their worth?

44:19 – What are your favorite books?

48:06 – What are your hobbies?

Enjoy and thanks for the listen!

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1:37 – How was the launch of your first ETF?

4:19 – Can you walk me through the process on how you construct and select for the ETF?

10:14 – Can you talk more about the energy value chain and metrics you look at?

13:54 – Can you talk about an idea or company in your portfolio?

20:39 – Can you talk about more on how the US can potentially be a net exporter in the coming years?

22:29 – How has the US shale production affected that and the new technology?

24:21 – How do you construct your portfolio to include all aspects of the energy value chain and how do you position your best ideas?

26:25 – Do you keep the portfolio fairly diversified or concentrated?

27:46 – What has driven the oil price movement?

31:49 – What should investors be aware in regards to oil prices and those misconceptions?

33:54 – Can you talk about the company level execution risk? Are they temporary and can they be fixed?

39:39 – When you visit the oil sites, can you share some stories of your experiences?

42:39 – What are your guys’ favorite hobbies?

49:00 – What are your favorite books?

50:08 – What are your closing thoughts?

Enjoy and thanks for the listen!

Today is a very special episode with Jim Osman. He is the founder and CEO of The Edge Consulting Group. In today’s episode we discuss what special situations are, the potential opportunities for investors, and his firm the Edge.

Jim is also hosting a free special situations conference and all that is ask is a donation for The Alzheimer's Association.

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