Growth Network

The Growth Team believes that a key ingredient of successful investing is constantly pursuing a diverse set of ideas/concepts across multiple disciplines to facilitate pattern recognition, while maintaining the flexibility and creativity to evaluate new ideas. Their shared reading network (the Growth Network), which includes over 100 investor and non-investor participants, leverages the distributed knowledge of the firm and encourages cross disciplinary thinking. Each week, they circulate articles, essays, and thought pieces from a wide range of sources outside of mainstream Wall Street. The team also keeps a running list of their favorite investment and non-investment books, which they use in the training and socialization of new members.

The books below are available for purchase. 

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Growth Team Recommended Reading

"The Money Game", Adam Smith

"When Genius Failed", Roger Lowenstein

"The Warren Buffett Way", Robert Hagstrom

"Blink", Malcom Gladwell

"The Warren Buffett Portfolio", Robert Hagstrom "The Wisdom of Crowds", James Surowiecki
"Investing: The Last Liberal Art", Robert Hagstrom "The Art of Learning", Josh Waitzkin
"Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist", Lowenstein "Poor Charlie’s Almanack", Charles Munger
"MoneyBall", Michael Lewis "CrazyBusy", Edward M. Hallowell M.D.
"Fooled by Randomness", Nassim Taleb "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable", Nassim Nicholas Taleb
 

Risk Considerations

 

There is no assurance that a mutual fund will achieve its investment objectives. Funds are subject to market risk, which is the possibility that the market value of the securities owned by the fund will decline and that the value of fund shares may therefore be less than what you paid for them. Accordingly, you can lose money by investing in these funds. Please be aware that these funds may be subject to certain additional risks. Mid Cap Growth Fund: Mid-cap stocks. Stocks of medium-sized companies entail special risks, such as limited product lines, markets, and financial resources, and greater market volatility than securities of larger, more-established companies. Foreign and emerging markets. Investments in foreign markets entail special risks such as currency, political, economic, and market risks. The risks of investing in emerging-market countries are greater than the risks generally associated with foreign investments. Pace Fund: Foreign and emerging markets. Investments in foreign markets entail special risks such as currency, political, economic, and market risks. The risks of investing in emerging-market countries are greater than the risks generally associated with foreign investments.

 
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Dennis Lynch,
Growth Team Leader, Managing Director


Dennis Lynch discusses the Growth team's reading network.

 


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