My guest today is Norton Reamer, the former Chief Investment Officer and CEO of Putnam Investments. He also founded and ran United Asset Management for 20 years. He has 50 years of experience on Wall Street. Today, Michael and Norton talk about his new book, “Investment: A History.” It is a detailed anthology on investment.

The topic is his book Investment: A History.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Personal responsibility in the stock market
• The role of financial leverage
• Resource allocation
• The suspension of diligence during economic booms
• Efficient markets vs. Behavioral markets
• Warren Buffett and survivorship bias
• Tail risk
• Quant and momentum style trading
• Practicing caution in the markets
• What impact does interest rates have on the value of assets

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