Big Decisions: Michael Mauboussin talks luck, skill, success, risk, mean reversion and the base rate to Tobias Carlisle on The Acquirers Podcast

Published: Oct. 11, 2019, 7 a.m.

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Michael J. Mauboussin is Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital Management. Prior to joining BlueMountain, he was Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse and Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management. He is also the author of three books, including More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places, named in the The 100 Best Business Books of All Time by 800-CEO-Read. Michael has been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School since 1993, and received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009 and 2016. He is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, a leading center for multi-disciplinary research in complex systems theory.

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Michael's website: http://michaelmauboussin.com/

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MIchael's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjmauboussin

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ABOUT THE PODCAST

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ABOUT TOBIAS CARLISLE

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Tobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer\\u2019s Multiple\\xae, and Acquirers Funds\\xae.

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He is best known as the author of the #1 new release in Amazon\\u2019s Business and Finance The Acquirer\\u2019s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, the Amazon best-sellers Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014) (https://amzn.to/2VwvAGF), Quantitative Value: A Practitioner\\u2019s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012) (https://amzn.to/2SDDxrN), and Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World\\u2019s Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016) (https://amzn.to/2SEEjVn). He has extensive experience in investment management, business valuation, public company corporate governance, and corporate law.

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Prior to founding the forerunner to Acquirers Funds in 2010, Tobias was an analyst at an activist hedge fund, general counsel of a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and a corporate advisory lawyer. As a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions he has advised on transactions across a variety of industries in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Australia, Singapore, Bermuda, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Guam.

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He is a graduate of the University of Queensland in Australia with degrees in Law (2001) and Business (Management) (1999).

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