he was testing my knowledge of investing. I answered, “I don’t know and I don’t care because it’s irrelevant.” When he expressed shock at my answer (even though Warren Buffet would tell you exactly the same thiAre you currently being courted by a large investment firm that tells you they are the best investment firm in the business and shows you numerous tables and statistics to prove it? If you think that big investment firms’ objectives are vastly different than a Toys R Us or a Nike store, than this article is a must read for you.

Instead of going through a point by point checklist that exposes big investment firms’ true interests, I’ll reveal their motives through an anecdotal recollection of an interview I had, five or six years ago, with a nationally recognized investment firm in the U.S. that had over $20 billion of assets under management. During the course of my interview, I gave my interviewer answers that he did not want to hear. For example, he thought that by asking me where the Dow Jones Industrial index was that day, that he was testing my knowledge of investing. I answered, “I don’t know and I don’t care because it’s irrelevant.” When he expressed shock at my answer (even though Warren Buffet would tell you exactly the same thin

nt firms’ objectives are vastly different than a Toys R Us or a Nike store, than this article is a must read for you.

Instead of going through a point by point checklist that exposes big investment firms’ true interests, I’ll reveal their motives through an anecdotal recollection of an interview I had, five or six years ago, with a nationally recognized investment firm in the U.S. that had over $20 billion of assets under management. During the course of my interview, I gave my interviewer answers that he did not want to hear. For example, he thought that by asking me where the Dow Jones Industrial index was that day, that he was testing my knowledge of investing. I answered, “I don’t know and I don’t care because it’s irrelevant.” When he expressed shock at my answer (even though Warren Buffet would tell you exactly the same thi

rue interests, I’ll reveal their motives through an anecdotal recollection of an interview I had, five or six years ago, with a nationally recognized investment firm in the U.S. that had over $20 billion of assets under management. During the course of my interview, I gave my interviewer answers that he did not want to hear. For example, he thought that by asking me where the Dow Jones Industrial index was that day, that he was testing my knowledge of investing. I answered, “I don’t know and I don’t care because it’s irrelevant.” When he expressed shock at my answer (even though Warren Buffet would tell you exactly the same this under management. During the course of my interview, I gave my interviewer answers that he did not want to hear. For example, he thought that by asking me where the Dow Jones Industrial index was that day, that he was testing my knowledge of investing. I answered, “I don’t know and I don’t care because it’s irrelevant.” When he expressed shock at my answer (even though Warren Buffet would tell you exactly the same thi he was testing my knowledge of investing. I answered, “I don’t know and I don’t care because it’s irrelevant.” When he expressed shock at my answer (even though Warren Buffet would tell you exactly the same thing), I asked him, “Can you tell me where the London Stock Exchange is trading at today? Can you tell me where the SET at Thailand closed yesterday? Can you tell me where the TSX in Canada is currently at?” Needless to say, he had no clue.

I asked him those questions to make my point that I was disappointed in the fact that someone from a highly advertised “creative, out-of-the-box” thinking big investment firm would ask me such “inside-the-box” kind of questions that were bogged down in statistics and other things that would never help a single soul discover a phenomenal stock opportunity. His interview questions conjured up memories of other useless things I had learned during my career from two Fortune 500 American investment firms, such as how to uncover companies that had just laid off tons of workers so I could call on their