In Discussion with Professor Russell Napier
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It was a pleasure to join Russell Napier in conversation this morning in a webinar joined by many ByteTree clients. We were unable to make it public because Russell is fed up with plagiarism from AI, so we agreed to put it behind the paywall.
For those who don’t know him, Russell has worked in the investment business for over 35 years, with notable years in Asia in the 1990s, where he was the equity strategist at CLSA. He forecasted the Asian Financial Crisis and wrote a book about it, which followed his classic, The Anatomy of a Bear.
He also founded The Practical History of Financial Markets course, which I attended in 2007, and more recently, The Library of Mistakes in Edinburgh, which now has branches in India, Switzerland and soon in Singapore. These days, he is the author of The Solid Ground investment report, which, at £1.5k per year for a monthly, makes ByteTree look cheap. Mind you, he is a genius, and so it’s worth every penny. In his own words, Russell is an Ulsterman living in Scotland, “lawyer by training, historian by necessity”.
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