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Dr. Gerald Chan

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I am often asked the question, “How do you make investment decisions?” People who see a successful investment outcome today are curious how the decision was made when the future outcome was unknown. People who see my unsuccessful investment outcomes rarely bother to ask me questions about them. This asymmetry of interest in the successful and the unsuccessful has contributed to creating a distorted perception out there that I only make successful investments. I can assure you that this is far from the truth. Furthermore, I would be lying if I say that all my successful investment outcomes resulted strictly from my foresight, decisions and actions. Another way of saying this is that in many instances, I just got lucky and things worked out. At this juncture, the inquiries bifurcate. One line of inquiry would ask, “How then do I get lucky?” In a simplistic sense, this is a perfectly logical question, one that also speaks to the absurdity that mere logic can land us. The more thoughtful i

Dr. Gerald Chan Dr. Gerald Chan Speech Site Skip to content About Speeches ← Previous Post Next Post → Posted on by Commencement speech given at D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Boston, August 30 2018 Life Objective, Life Subjective By Gerald Chan I am often asked the question, “How do you make investment decisions?” People who see a successful investment outcome today are curious how the decision was made when the future outcome was unknown. People who see my unsuccessful investment outcomes rarely bother to ask me questions about them. This asymmetry of in

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