He is the author of “Investment Valuation” and many times awarded teacher fascinated by finance & markets.
He has received his MBA and Ph.D degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles. His research interests lie in valuation, portfolio management and applied corporate finance. Aswath is teaching finance and valuation at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Aswath Damodaran has written many books on valuation and corporate finance. And his blog, Musings on Markets, has been selected by the Times of London as one of the top ten stock market blogs in the world.
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- Why companies should act their age?
- What are the foundations of a successful company?
- How to ensure your profits as an investor?
Podcast highlights
- 2:45 Why companies should act their age and what does it mean?
- 5:00 What does Aswath think people get most wrong when thinking about ownership and owning publicly traded companies?
- 6:13 Most of the rules of thumb in investing are outdated.
- 7:22 The fundamentals that drive prices are pretty much the same around the world.
- 7:53 The most successful young technology companies are operated on two channels: bringing more users and building a business.
- 10:46 Giving fixed dividends is an outdated system from the 1800s.
- 14:13 Young companies should invest money to innovations but old companies should give out more dividends instead of new innovations.
- 16:11 About Amazon and why almost all big companies view it as a massive threat.
- 18:24 How to protect yourself as an investor when investing on young growth companies?
- 23:02 Aswath thinks it’s super important that companies hold on to their culture – but also see the culture as a dynamic thing that reflects the world we’re living.
- 26:07 Young people want to own a lot but why are companies even as big as Apple so terrified about it?
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