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Magellan Challenges Active Adviser Beliefs
Read more: Magellan Challenges Active Adviser BeliefsClick video to listen to story. If you didn’t know, Hamish Douglass is probably Australia’s best known fund manager and is the figurehead of one of the most recognisable funds management businesses in the country: Magellan Financial Group. For years his flagship global fund has outperformed the market based on his convictions. It has afforded him rockstar status, a cult like following with investors, and the ability to get his message almost unfiltered into the media as many of Australia’s finance journalists have acted as stenographers when reporting on his thoughts and comments. Until recently. Magellan’s stellar performance has evaporated…
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The Greys of Ethical Awareness
Read more: The Greys of Ethical AwarenessYou’re out walking with your dog near a railway track. Behind you there’s a rumbling noise. Thundering down the track is a trolley, looking up ahead you can see the trolley is headed for a bridge with five workers on it. They will either be run over or jump to certain death. Beside you is a large switch. If you pull the switch, you will divert the trolley to a second track and another bridge. Only this bridge has a single worker on it who would face the same fate as the other workers. What do you do? Pull the…
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