Chabran: Junior investment team members should speak first to avoid bias
Mathieu Chabran · Mathieu Chabran – Good Deals Have No Wheels at Tikehau Capital (First Meeting, EP.23) · Oct 12, 2020 · at 41:54
Mathieu Chabran, co-founder and co-CIO of Tikehau Capital, describes his technique for preventing senior members from influencing junior analysts during investment committee debates.
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“I'm co-CIO. I remain co-CIO of the group, and over the years, I've learned to ask sometimes the most junior team member to speak up first, okay? Because otherwise, it's just his or her judgments, you know, get biased because someone, you know, Talks louder than she would or he would.”
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