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Michael Mauboussin
Chief Investment Strategist, Legg Mason Capital Management
Michael Mauboussin is the chief investment strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management. Before joining LMCM in 2004, he was a managing director and chief U.S. investment strategist at Credit Suisse. He is a former president of the Consumer Analyst Group of New York and was repeatedly named to Institutional Investor’s All-America Research Team and The Wall Street Journal All-Star survey in the food industry group. He has been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School since 1993 and is on the faculty of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing.
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It’s essential that several pieces click into place for the country to become the next big superpower, but its future looks bright.
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The Legg Mason investment strategist has four key tips for starting investors.
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What’s going on around you is influencing your daily decisions much more than you realize.
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The best investors tend to be more reserved, more independent, and less attuned to what other people are doing.
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When it comes to investing advice, media pundits tend to amplify both optimism and pessimism.
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Everybody knows that outcomes are a combination of skill and luck, but we tend not to be very good at understanding the relative contributions of the two.
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We like to follow a bullish or bearish trend. But the best investors sell when everyone’s buying, and buy when everyone’s selling.