Michael Falk - How Emotional Intelligence Drives Investment Alpha: Unlocking the Power of EQ in Finance

Tune in to hear: - What might the personality of an ideal hire for a leadership position in asset management look like? - How can one measure things like emotional intelligence and curiosity that can seem kind of ethereal or hard to get your arms around? - Has Michael come across any counterintuitive, or surprising, discoveries in his research as he’s tried to fill talent gaps in the financial services industry? - How does a company best walk the line between having adequate conflict, to fully vet and consider all perspectives, but not such excessive conflict that it spills over into ugliness? - What does the concept of “psychological safety” mean and how can one achieve this perspective throughout their organization? - How do we get beyond just paying lip service to wanting productive conflict in an organization and actually get to a point where we can have these conversations? - What are some common behavioral traps within decision making processes used by asset managers, and how does Michael council people to begin to overcome these? - Is there really something magical about the human touch that is additive to the investment decision making process or can we simply automate these things away? - How might we build out a more modular model that takes the best of quant, analysis and data and the best of human decision making and merges these aspects together? - What has come into focus for Michael since his ALS diagnosis? Books: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Sustain-Long-Term-Economic-Growth/dp/1944960058 https://www.amazon.com/Get-Work-Future-Michael-Falk/dp/1704375827 ALS Charities: https://iamals.org https://lesturnerals.org Recent Writing: https://investmentsandwealth.org/getattachment/2166018f-6fbd-4389-ad61-8352e53d7537/IWM20NovDec-EverythingYouNeedToKnowAboutInvesting.pdf https://www.cfainstitute.org/research/foundation/2021/capitalism-for-everyone Compliance Code: 1740-BCI-5/27/2021