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Paul Cabot

8-9%
Compound annual over half a century


Fund or affiliation
  • State Street Investment Company, State Street Management and research
  • Harvard University endowment for 17 years

Methodology

  • Realism and care.

Research Techniques Employed

  • "First you’ve got to get all the facts, and then you’ve got to face the facts. Not pipe dreams."
  • "He’s so careful" and "he’s so fantastically thorough."

Trading/ Valuation Techniques Employed

 

Philosophy and beliefs

History and other facts

  • Considered "Dean of Institutional Investors" in Boston. And Boston is still the Vatican of trust investment.
  • Said "Christ, no! Haven’t any of you bastards ever been drunk?" regarding a cut on his forehead, at a JP Morgan board meeting.
  • Interrupted Alfred Sloan, "No,no! The hell with that! What I want to know is, when is it going to make some real dough?" on another JP Morgan board meeting.

Examples

Performance Record

  • J.Train, MM pp. 42