Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot (Columbia Business School Publishing) - Hardcover

Yogg, Michael; Bogle, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231167466 ISBN 13: 9780231167468

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Paul Cabot (1898-1994) was an innovative mutual fund manager and executive known for his strong character, charismatic personality, and trendsetting financial achievements. Iconoclastic and rebellious, Cabot broke free from the Boston Brahmin trustee mold to pursue new ways of investing and serving investment clients. Cabot founded one of the first mutual funds-State Street Investment Corporation-in the early 1920s, campaigned against the corrupt practices of certain other funds in the late 1920s, and lobbied on behalf of key New Deal securities legislation in the 1930s. As Harvard University treasurer, he increased the allocation of the endowment to equities just in time for the bull market of the 1950s, and as a corporate director in the 1960s he campaigned against conglomerates' abusive takeover strategies. Having spent nearly two decades working for Cabot's company, State Street Research & Management, as an analyst, research director, portfolio manager, and chief investment officer, Michael R. Yogg is well positioned to share the secrets behind Cabot's extraordinary success and relate the life of an extraordinary man. Cabot pioneered the use of fundamental stock analysis and was likely the first to take up the progressive practice of interviewing company managements. His accomplishments all stemmed from his passion for facts, finance, and creative thinking, as well as his unbreakable will, facets Yogg illuminates through privileged access to Cabot's papers and a wealth of interviews.

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About the Author

Michael R. Yogg, Ph.D., CFA, is trained as both a historian and investor. He holds three degrees in history from Yale University and Harvard University, and worked for more than three decades in the investment industry, including nearly two decades at State Street Research & Management and fifteen years at Putnam Investments. John C. Bogle is founder of the Vanguard Group, which is currently the world's largest mutual fund company. As a bestselling author of ten books, most recently The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation, and a financial innovator, he is recognized as the leading advocate for the interests of mutual fund shareholders in the United States.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231167466
• ISBN 13: 9780231167468
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288