Sir Chris Hohn: Strategic Investing, Long-Term Value and Purposeful Philanthropy

Hi everyone, I'm Nikolai Tangen and today we are joined by one of the best investors of all time, actually, Sir Chris Horn. Not only is this fund, TCI, one of the best and most successful funds that Europe has ever seen, but also the charity is one now one of the largest in the world. So uh Chris, you continue to have a immense positive impact on the world. Thanks for coming. Thank you, Nikolai.

Let's start with um the investment world. What makes a good investment? I think this is uh something a lot of people uh get wrong. They that's uh they think it's about growth often. Okay, or something new.

Um Neither of those things in themselves are to us matter by themselves. The most important thing and without which it's i i i i i in um for the let's say the types of investing that we do is High barriers to entry, the motes that Warren Buffett has talked about. Now, can before we dig into that, can a distressed asset of a you know a piece of real estate that selling at half price because of a liquidation also be a good investment?

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