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Will Danoff: Succeeding at Scale

Will Danoff: Succeeding at Scale

FromThe Long View


Will Danoff: Succeeding at Scale

FromThe Long View

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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Jan 29, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Our guest this week is Will Danoff. Will runs a number of Fidelity equity strategies, best known of which is Fidelity Contrafund, a mutual fund he has been managing since September 1990. During his nearly three-decade tenure at Contrafund, Will has trounced the market indexes and, even more remarkably, managed to maintain the fund's performance at scale. Indeed, Contrafund was recently home to more than $120 billion in assets and has ranked among the world's largest funds for many years. For his accomplishments, Morningstar named Will its Domestic-Stock Manager of the Year in 2007. Prior to becoming a portfolio manager, Will served as a retail analyst at Fidelity and for a time as assistant portfolio manager at Fidelity Magellan. He's a graduate of Harvard University and earned his MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We're thrilled to have him as our guest.BackgroundWill Danoff bioFidelity ContrafundInspirations“Letters”, Fidelity Investments TV commercial Peter Lynch bioMeetings with ManagementNelson Peltz bioIdea GenerationSalesforce Dreamforce conferenceJoel TillinghastFidelity Low-Priced StockCircle of CompetenceMichael O’Leary, Michael Cawley biosPortfolio ConstructionCorporate profit marginsInvesting in Private FirmsSecurities and Exchange Commission’s “Investment Company Liquidity Risk Management Program” 
Released:
Jan 29, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Expand your investing horizons and look to the long term. Join hosts Christine Benz and Jeff Ptak as they talk to influential leaders in investing, advice, and personal finance about a wide-range of topics, such as asset allocation and balancing risk and return.