Bruce J. Flatt, the CEO of Brookfield Asset Managmement (BAM), has made a rare appearance at Google for one of their Talks (video below). The most striking thing about the presentation is the lack of people that showed up to listen to one of the world’s most successful investors. In the screenshot below of the presentation, I count 10 people. Let’s say there were 15 people. If they paid any attention, these 15 people are now much better investors. I’m not sure how something like this happens. I can see 10 people showing at a talk in the basement of a church, but this is Google we are talking about, and Google is located in Silicon Valley with all that money and investors. My guess is that nobody knows who Bruce J. Flatt is.
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The lack of people is a testimony to the low profile of Bruce J. Flatt and Brookfield Asset Management. Unless you are in the investment world, most people have no idea that they own some of the world’s most precious real estate with with $285 billion in assets.
I have written an elaborate article on BAM in the past (read here) and it was also the subject of a podcast I did (listen here). Here is the video:
Article by Brian Langis
