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Welcome to the Longview podcast. I'm Jeff Patak, Global Director of Manager Research for Morningstar Research Services.

And I'm Christine Ben's director of personal finance for Morningstar.

Our guest this week is Morgan Housel. Morgan is a partner at the Collaborative Fund,

a venture capital firm that makes investments in firms that, in its words, are at the intersection of for-profit and for good.

A former columnist at The Motley Fool and the Wall Street Journal, Morgan has become one of the

most prolific and insightful writers on the investment decision-making process, as evidenced

by his impressive body of work on the Collaborative Fund website's blog.

Morgan joined us today in this live recording of

the Longview from the Morning Star Investment Conference in Chicago. Morgan, thank you so much for

joining us and welcome to the Longview. Thanks for having me. This is great. So I think some of our

listeners are probably already acquainted with your work, but for those who aren't, can you give a

quick thumbnail of your

background and specifically how you came into the investing in finance fields? My whole background

has been in writing for my whole career, and it kind of got that way on accident. This was never

planned to become a financial writer. My plan all throughout college was to do investment banking. That's

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