Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

Best of Pre-Mortem Analysis: Gary Klein

Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

Show Notes

This week's Summer Series covers the pre-mortem analysis with its founder, Gary Klein. Gary discovered pre-mortems while working with fighter pilots and wrote a white paper applying the tool to investment analysis alongside Paul Johnson and Paul Sonkin. Please enjoy this discussion of the proper use of pre-mortem analysis with Gary, Paul, and Paul from 2019.

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