Dr David Chambers on Keynes' investment strategies
A new analysis reveals Keynes' extraordinary returns hinged on a radical switch he made from being a 'top down' macro manager to a 'bottom up' stock picker. Idiosyncratic portfolios and an unconventional approach are two of the findings in the first detailed analysis of John Maynard Keynes' investment philosophy, strategies and trading records by Dr David Chambers and Professor Elroy Dimson. "The popular consensus to have grown up around Keynes is that he was a fantastic investor. Whilst we have not exploded that story, we reveal it is a more nuanced story than this popular view suggests."
About John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes ( KAYNZ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose writings are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, as well as its various offshoots. Originally trained in mathematics, he built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles. His ideas, reformulated as New Keynesianism, are fundamental to mainstream macroeconomics. He is known as the "father of macroeconomics" and is one of the most infl...
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