#24 The Family Office CIO - Beth Lilly on Research Process, Meeting Warren Buffett & Managing Family Fortunes

Beth Lilly is a highly successful value investor and an amazing woman. She has set up two asset management firms, worked with and learned from some of the most famous and some of the most successful valueinvestors in the world, and now runs money for the multi-billion Pohlad family in Minnesota.

We discuss the power of compounding, Beth’s research processand how she conducts company meetings. We disagree on the attractiveness of the auto dealership industry, and Beth explains how she approaches the management of inter-generational wealth, how she decides much cash to hold and we debate private equity.

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