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5 Leadership Lessons I Learned from A Billionaire Investor: Ray Dalio

Strategy Driven

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. Dalio became popular in the early 1980s when he pointed out that American banks were overloading Latin American countries with debt. economy was in a bull market. That’s the effect success has on people. Conclusion.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action. Why do we crave leadership nowadays?

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What If Socially Useful Jobs Were Taxed Less Than Other Jobs?

Harvard Business Review

The job market does not account for all social value. On the other hand, some sectors involve “zero sum” endeavors, in which profits come at the expense of other market participants. Examples include excessive litigation or financial traders trying to beat the market. We consider two different types of tax policies.

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The Answer to Short-Termism Isn’t Asking Investors to Be Patient

Harvard Business Review

These arguments have proven highly influential and led to several policy proposals to encourage long-term holdings – so-called “patient capital” France’s Loi Florange doubles investors’ voting rights after two years. An investor can outperform the market by simply waiting to collect the dividend.

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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem

Harvard Business Review

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. Hedge fund activists loom large in the discussion of short-termism. primary season.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. The only time in its history when Apple raised funds on the stock market was its 1980 IPO, which provided it with $97 million.

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Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay?

Harvard Business Review

One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. What''s more, the asset management industry — in particular the alternative-asset subset of hedge funds and private equity — has exported many of its pay practices into the corporate sector. That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011.

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