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Mauboussin: Almost all top compounder stocks suffer 75%+ drawdowns
“He documented that almost every one of these great compounders had massive drawdowns at some point. And it was common to have drawdowns of 75% or more, but some were 80, 85% drawdowns.”
Michael Mauboussin Feb 19, 2024 ▶ 45:00 Michael Mauboussin - Pattern Recognition and Public Markets (EP.370)
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Mauboussin: Cognitive Diversity Boosts Fund Returns; Demographic Diversity Is Neutral
“There's only one paper that I've ever seen that attempted to tackle whether it was cognitive diversity or social category diversity that added value, and what that paper found, and it was a couple thousand mutual funds, and it's hard to tag these things really…”
Michael Mauboussin May 13, 2019 ▶ 18:29 Michael Mauboussin – Who's on the Other Side (Capital Allocators, EP.99)
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Mauboussin: VIX Prints Reached All-Time Highs Above 2008 Levels
“I believe it's correct to say that the prints we've had on the VIX and the clothes we've had on the VIX are at all time highs, higher than the financial crisis.”
Michael Mauboussin Mar 23, 2020 ▶ 9:36 Michael Mauboussin – Consilient Observations in a Crisis (Capital Allocators, EP.127)
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Mauboussin: Single-Manager Funds Dropped From Over 75% to Under 25%
“By the way, in my career, it used to be almost all single manager PM funds. It was more than three quarters of them. Now that's less than a quarter.”
Michael Mauboussin May 13, 2019 ▶ 17:01 Michael Mauboussin – Who's on the Other Side (Capital Allocators, EP.99)
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