Business author talks about book in visit to Eagle Harbor Books
Published 10:54 am Saturday, October 17, 2015
Bainbridge Island-based Microsoft executive and business and investment writer Tren Griffin will visit Eagle Harbor Book Company to talk about his new book “Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18.
Munger, Berkshire Hathaway’s visionary vice chairman and Warren Buffett’s indispensable financial partner, has outperformed market indexes again and again and he believes any investor can do the same. His notion of “elementary, worldly wisdom” — a set of interdisciplinary mental models involving economics, business, psychology, ethics, and management — allows him to keep his emotions out of his investments and avoid the common pitfalls of bad judgment.
Munger’s system has steered his investments for 40 years and has guided generations of successful investors.
Griffin’s book presents the essential steps of Munger’s investing strategy, condensed here for the first time from interviews, speeches, writings and shareholder letters and paired with commentary from fund managers, value investors and business historians.
Derived from Ben Graham’s value-investing system, Munger’s approach is straightforward enough that ordinary investors can apply it to their portfolios.
Griffin was previously a partner at Eagle River, a private equity firm controlled by Craig McCaw, with investments in the telecommunication and software industries including McCaw Cellular, Nextel, Nextel Partners, XO Communications, Teledesic and many start-up firms. His early career included five years working and living as a business consultant in Korea and Australia. He blogs about investing and other topics at 25iq.com.
Visit www.eagleharborbooks.com to learn more about this and other upcoming author events.
