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Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcast listeners.

Welcome to this week's show.

My name's Kirk Chisholm and I will be your host.

So today we're talking with Charles Sinek.

How's it going today, Charles?

Doing well, thanks, Kurt.

Good.

We brought Charles on because he's a former fund manager, and we wanted to bring him on

to talk about value investing, which is something he knows quite a bit about.

So, Charles, maybe you can tell us a little bit about your background.

As you may guess for my accent, I'm British, currently based in London,

but prior to being out here, actually, I was in China. I was a degree educated in China.

I'm not Chinese, I was a bit of a challenge getting over that. I did economics and trade out there

before returning here to the UK. Most of my experience is primarily been with publicly listed companies, more so in

emerging markets, so markets like China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, etc.,

that then perhaps developed markets, where you've got to study a bit more diversification

in terms of risk and opportunity, and especially value

investors, some really rather attractive opportunities, often overlooked in some of those regions.

And then more recently, I've been writing this book, The Company Valuation Playbook. It's available

on Amazon. I wrote it really just to fit what I saw as a bit of a gap. There's plenty of

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