Brian Portnoy

5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 18, 2018 by Brian Portnoy · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Jun 18, 2018
Insight
Portnoy: Investing success means meeting client expectations, not beating benchmarks
“What I concluded after putting a lot of thought and time into it over a couple years was that true success in investing, broadly defined, is when expectations Map up with outcomes. And I began to realize, not in its fullest fruition, in the second book I explo…”
Brian Portnoy Jun 18, 2018 ▶ 17:09 Brian Portnoy – From Complex to Simple (Capital Allocators, EP.57)
Jun 18, 2018 negative
Opinion
Volatility is genuine risk because it induces investors to abandon their plans
“The smartest of the smart guys say that volatility is not risk. And I strongly, strongly disagree. Because if you're, what you're really trying to do is achieve your goals in life, and the more volatile an investment is, Makes it more likely that you're going …”
Brian Portnoy Jun 18, 2018 ▶ 50:55 Brian Portnoy – From Complex to Simple (Capital Allocators, EP.57)
Jun 18, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Portnoy: Institutional hedge fund wave began after 2000-2002 drawdown
“The big institutional wave into hedge funds began after the 2000 to 2002 drawdown because so many funds, as we've talked about for a long time, were prescient enough or smart enough to be long value and short growth, and they survived 99, and they put up absol…”
Brian Portnoy Jun 18, 2018 ▶ 10:37 Brian Portnoy – From Complex to Simple (Capital Allocators, EP.57)
Jun 18, 2018
Insight
Evaluating allocator skill requires tracking the performance of passed investment opportunities
“Well, you can't really say whether you're skilled or not if, unless you think about the 99 that you passed on and whether they worked out on an absolute basis and relative to the one decision that you did make.”
Brian Portnoy Jun 18, 2018 ▶ 16:58 Brian Portnoy – From Complex to Simple (Capital Allocators, EP.57)
Jun 18, 2018 neutral
Insight
True wealth is funded contentment, whereas being rich is a hedonic treadmill
“Wealthy is funded contentment. Rich is the quest for more. And I could cite you a 1001 articles from social psychology and other disciplines that show that the quest for more is nothing better than a treadmill.”
Brian Portnoy Jun 18, 2018 ▶ 34:11 Brian Portnoy – From Complex to Simple (Capital Allocators, EP.57)
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