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16 Facts About Jeremy Grantham

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Robert Jeremy Goltho Grantham was born on 6 October 1938 and is a British investor and co-founder and chief investment strategist of GMO LLC, a Boston-based asset management firm.

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Jeremy Grantham has been a vocal critic of various governmental responses to the 2008 financial crisis.

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Jeremy Grantham was born on 6 October 1938 in Ware, Hertfordshire and grew up in Doncaster.

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Jeremy Grantham's firm seeks to understand historical changes in markets and predict results for seven years into the future.

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Jeremy Grantham has been described as a contrarian investor and permabear.

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In 1971, Jeremy Grantham helped established one of the earliest index funds at Batterymarch Financial Management.

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Jeremy Grantham built much of his investing reputation over the course of his career by identifying speculative asset bubbles as they were unfolding.

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Jeremy Grantham avoided investing in Japanese equities and real estate in the late 1980s during the peak of the Japanese asset price bubble, and avoided technology stocks during the Internet bubble of the 1990s.

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Jeremy Grantham acknowledges that his strategy can underperform market averages for years, testing his clients' patience, but he asserts that his strategy has always paid off long-term by avoiding overvalued assets.

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In GMO's April 2010 Quarterly Letter, Jeremy Grantham spoke to the tendency of all bubbles to revert to the mean:.

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Jeremy Grantham focused on personal traits and leadership in trying to explain how we reached the economic crisis.

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Jeremy Grantham believes this bubble is coming to an end.

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Jeremy Grantham has stated his opposition to the Keystone Pipeline on the basis of the environmental consequences its construction will bring to Alberta and the planet due to the contribution that burning the extracted oil would make to climate change.

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Jeremy Grantham believes that green technologies are profitable investments in the long run, claiming that decarbonizing the economy will be an investing bonanza for those who know it's coming.

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Jeremy Grantham was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Jeremy Grantham was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for philanthropic service to climate change research.