1. Guy Spier is a Zurich-based Swiss-German-Israeli investor.
31 Facts About Guy Spier
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Guy Spier is the author of The Education of a Value Investor.
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Guy Spier is well known for bidding US$650,100 with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett in 2008.
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In 1990, Guy Spier was offered places both in the Joint Business and Economics PhD program and at the MBA Program at Harvard.
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Guy Spier opted to do the MBA and, in 1993, he completed his MBA.
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From 1988 to 1990, Guy Spier was an associate at Braxton Associates, the strategy consulting firm which was later sold to Deloitte Consulting.
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Guy Spier subsequently took up an internship at the Forward Studies Unit at the European Commission in Brussels.
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Guy Spier subsequently described this experience as "not dissimilar" to the movie Wolf of Wall Street.
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Guy Spier continues to manage the fund today, and it had $300 million in AUM as of June 2021.
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Guy Spier follows closely Warren Buffett's principles on value investing and capital allocation.
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Guy Spier has regularly advocated for probity and modesty in the management of financial firms.
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In 2008, Guy Spier published a paper along with Peter Sinclair and Tom Skinner on "Bonuses, Credit Rating Agencies and the Credit Crunch" which argued that part of the cause of the 2008 crisis was short-termism leading to the miscalculation of bonuses at credit rating and other financial firms.
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Guy Spier has strongly advocated in favor of zero management fees when it comes to professional investment management.
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Guy Spier has advocated for Switzerland to become a centre of true investing excellence, writing "while Switzerland's biotech, health and technology clusters are extraordinarily well developed, Swiss private banking still has a long way to go".
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In 2003, along with David Einhorn, Bill Ackman, and Whitney Tilson, Guy Spier became the target of investigations by Eliot Spitzer, then the New York Attorney General, as well as by the US Securities and Exchange Commission regarding short sales of Farmer Mac, MBIA, and Allied Capital.
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In 2019, in a YouTube interview with Tilman Versch of ValueDACH, Guy Spier likened the art of stock picking to "drunks in bars" referencing Dan Bilzerian.
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In 2020, Guy Spier hosted a panel on "The Future of Intelligent Investing" with Niall Ferguson, Sandy Climan, and Daniel Aegerter.
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In 2022, Guy Spier took issue with the economic policies of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng.
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Guy Spier makes no secret of his investment in Care Ratings which stands to benefit from greater involvement of local ratings agencies in the rating of sovereign debt.
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From 2000 to 2005, Guy Spier served as the President of the Oxford Alumni Association of New York with the close support of Amanda Pullinger.
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From 2007 to 2009, Guy Spier served on the advisory board of the Dakshana Foundation.
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Guy Spier has frequently promoted India as an attractive investment destination.
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In 2017, Guy Spier joined the newly formed board of the Swiss Friends of Oxford University.
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Guy Spier serves on the board of UN Watch and on the advisory boards of Horasis and World Minds.
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Guy Spier has been increasingly in the spotlight for more than a decade.
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Guy Spier is known for mentoring young investors and being an active member of the value investing community.
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Guy Spier often engages with other investors through interviews, podcasts, and social media, fostering a sense of community and collaboration.
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Guy Spier is known for founding the VALUEx conference in Klosters in 2011 and organizing it yearly.
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Guy Spier is related to the Lazard, Speyer and Rothschild banking families through his great-great-grandmother, Johanna Lazard.
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Guy Spier is a former resident of Tuxedo Park, New York, the village constructed by Pierre Lorillard in the late 1800s, where he lived in the Bruce Price Cottage.
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Guy Spier is a member of Entrepreneurs' Organization and of the Young Presidents' Organization and of the Westminster Synagogue.