Our Abusive Parent Leads to Lots of Experts at Extremes

As portfolio managers, we feel like the children of an abusive parent. The parent spent the last 29 years teaching us the difference between right and wrong. We in turn have been executing the behaviors that are preferred by the abusive parent. Unfortunately, the abusive parent chooses to abuse us financially and psychologically. Many have rightly fled the household of the abusive parent and gone to…

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