Wealthtrack: Charles Ellis shares his basic investment rules

By Prieur du Plessis, on June 28th, 2010 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

On this week’s Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, legendary financial consultant Charles Ellis shares his basic rules to succeed in financial markets. His Winning the loser’s game is an investment classic. Now he’s written a new investment primer with Princeton economist Burton Malkiel, The elements of investing.

Ellis founded Greenwich Associates, the international strategy consulting firm in 1972, which has advised many of the leading financial firms in global markets. He has been a teacher of investment management at The Yale School of Management, Harvard Business School and Princeton. He is also the former chairman of the investment committee at Yale that oversaw the university’s huge endowment growth.

In the video below, Ellis distils more than 50 years of investment experience.

Note: The transcript of this interview is not available yet, but will be posted here as soon as it arrives.

Source: Wealthtrack, June 25, 2010.

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