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This is Masters in Business with Barry Redholz on Bloomberg Radio.

This week on the podcast, I have a fascinating guest and I think you'll really enjoy listening to him.

His name is John Montgomery. He is a former civil engineer slash transportation engineer

who decided to take his love of quantitative mathematics and apply it in the world of investing.

If that isn't somewhat unusual enough of a background, he managed to put together

not only a firm that's running eight and a half billion dollars,

but a very unusual firm with Agile here, some very unusual qualifications, including the fact that

Bridgeway gives away half of their profits to various charitable organizations.

Every year, he also has some internal rules about how much he can be compensated relative to

the lowest compensated person in the firm. You know, 30 years ago, the CEO to factory floor

ratio was something about 25 to one. It's now somewhere depending on whose numbers you use,

250 to 400 to one. At Bridgeway, the is paid person, the lowest paid person, it's a seven to one

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