We Study Billionaires - The Investors Podcast

In this episode, William Green chats with British investing legend Terry Smith. Terry, a member of Bloomberg’s index of billionaires, manages the Fundsmith Equity Fund, which is the UK’s largest stock fund. Since 2010, it’s returned more than 600%, beating the MSCI World Index by over 200 percentage points. Here, Terry talks in depth about the skills, personality traits, & principles that catapulted him from poverty to the pinnacle of the investing world. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 04:01 - How Terry Smith was shaped by poverty & violence. 35:17 - How he achieved fame by exposing financial deception. 39:26 - What he looks for when identifying great businesses. 46:54 - Why many of his favorite companies are 100 years old. 51:56 - Which sectors he shuns & which he likes. 58:42 - How Microsoft embodies what he loves in a business. 1:00:29 - Why it’s worth paying up for the best companies. 1:20:15 - Why the US is his favorite place to invest. 1:21:44 - How being a CEO made him a better investor.