The Contrarian Investor: Heads I win, tails you lose

Heads I win, tails you lose

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Call me old fashioned, but I had always thought the pinnacle of material aspiration for young wannabes was investment banking or running a hedge fund. Apparently I am wrong. The hot new profession is fund management, or so I was told by a long line of young, smart, potential interns who all wanted to get a top job in the City, and somehow had ended up talking to me.

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