The Long View

Pat Dorsey: Economic Moats and More

The Long View

Show Notes

Morningstar’s former head of equity research on what investors get wrong with moats, what to look for in company management, why quantitative screens are less useful than they were, and the process he uses to filter out signal versus noise.

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