The Joys of Compounding with Gautam Baid

ValueWalk’s Raul Panganiban interviews Gautam Baid, CFA, portfolio manager at an SEC-registered investment advisor based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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The Joys of Compounding with Gautam Baid

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Hello podcast listeners. Today is a very special episode with Gautam Baid. He is Portfolio Manager at an SEC registered investment advisor based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Previously, he served at the Mumbai, London and Hong Kong offices of Citigroup and Deutsche Bank as a senior analysts in their healthcare investment banking teams. He’s also a CFA Charter Holder, and a member of the CFA Institute. And in 2018 and 2019, he was profiled in Morningstar’s Learn From The Masters series. You can learn more about him at the joysofcompounding.com or connect on twitter @Gautam_Baid. And in today’s episode, we discuss his recent book the Joys of Compounding I want to welcome Gautam to the show and want to welcome all our listeners to a very special episode.

Welcome to ValueTalk with Raul.

Just wanted to welcome all our listeners to a very special episode. I have Gautam Baid, Portfolio Manager at Summit Global Investments, and the author of The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning. And Gautam, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

ll right, yeah, if we can just begin with your background and what led you to finance and investing.

I was born and brought up in the Marwari family in India and the Marwari community in India is known for having business in its genes. So, ever since my early teenage years, I was always fascinated by the concept of entrepreneurship, especially by the fact that once a solid foundation is established for a business, the owners don’t work for money, rather, money works for them. I did my bachelor’s in commerce with a specialisation in accountancy, so pursuing higher studies in the field Finance seemed like a natural extension. I did my ms in finance from ICP University in Hyderabad, India. And I also did my MBA in finance from my university in India but India. Later on, I also went on to become a CFA charterholders from CFA Institute us.