"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations." Isaac D'Israeli

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." Winston Churchill

"I decided also early on that I would file away any good quotes I came across in my reading and share them with my investor family at appropriate moments." Ralph Wanger

“One of my hobbies is collecting quotations. Socrates said employ your time in reading great people’s lives so you can learn in a very simple way what it took them all their life to do. The best way I found to do that is in a quote. Sometimes in a quote you can capture what a person took a whole life to learn, incredible wisdom through that. I have about 5,000 quotes on my computer and I log them by subject so whenever I am studying a subject I have the chance to read what all the great people thought about that.” Arnold Van Den Berg
 

Welcome to the Investment Masters Class.

I started the Investment Masters Class with the intention that should my children one day wish to become investors, I can share with them here the lessons of the world's most successful investors, CEOs and businesses.

I have been in the investment industry for over 25 years, employed as a Managing Director for a global Investment Bank. While I currently manage an investment portfolio, I spent over two decades advising hedge funds and institutional long only accounts. I've lived through the Tech Bubble, the Asian Crisis, the Global Financial Crisis - and now Covid-19.  

My father was a stockbroker and my grandfather was a proprietary trader. I love this business.

What differentiates the Investment Masters Class from most other finance courses is both the structure of the learning and the different topics covered.  

The Investment Masters Class curriculum includes essential topics that are missing from typical finance courses. It's amazing that few finance courses [Columbia Business School is the key exception] actually study Warren Buffett/Charlie Munger et al, human psychology, financial history or great businesses. 

"I think almost anybody can draw [on the] lessons from Warren’s achievement at Berkshire. The interesting thing is you could go to the top business schools and none are studying and teaching what Warren has done." Charlie Munger

The tutorials cover the philosophies, insights, mental models and investing processes common to many of the world's greatest investors - they are actually their words and wisdom. Your teachers are highly successful investors; practitioners with solid long term track records of outperformance - not career academics.

The Investment Masters Class tutorials are based upon quotations collated from over two decades of studying and learning from the Investment Masters; curated from fund letters, investment books and interviews with the Investment Masters.

You’ll find the Investment Masters Class is more qualitative than quantitative, more liberal arts and psychology than academic finance.  

Whether you are just starting your journey in the investment world or you run a billion dollar fund, I'm certain you'll find the tutorials and blog posts a useful aid in thinking about and managing money.

It’s time to apprentice yourself to the word’s best.

Let’s keep learning....

 You can contact me here at john@mastersinvest.com