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My Life in 4 Trades: Leaning Into Your Expertise w/ Ben Harburg

Real Vision: Finance & Investing

Real Vision

Business News, News, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by KraneShares’s KRBN ETF is the 1st, largest, and most liquid carbon ETF. Please read the prospectus before investing at https://kraneshares.com/KRBN/realvision. Investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. KRBN is distributed by SEI Investment Distribution Company (SIDCO). Ben Harburg, founder, and managing partner at MSA Capital, has been at the intersection of the U.S., China, and emerging markets for years. He joins Maggie Lake to share the highs and lows — and the lessons learned — of a career focused on China tech, Asian private markets, and the Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Today's real vision daily briefing is sponsored by Crane Shares.

0:04.4

Learn about their K-R-B-N-E-T-F at CraneShares.com forward slash K-R-B-N.

0:12.0

Now to the top analysis of today's markets.

0:20.3

Hi, everyone. Welcome to another edition of My Life in Four Trades. Joining me today is Ben

0:24.8

Harberg, founder and managing partner at MSA Capital. Hi, Ben. Welcome to My Life in Four Trades.

0:30.8

Thanks for having me. So, before we jump in, it's our tradition to learn a little bit about your

0:36.7

background. So, where did you grow up and what were you like as a kid? No-matic. Born in Colorado,

0:43.2

but lived in five U.S. states and two other countries before I even hit college. And since I

0:50.4

graduated from college, I left the U.S. and haven't been back. So, the true definition of no man.

0:55.6

Yeah, or a global citizen, as others would like to call it. How is it that you moved around so much?

1:02.9

Beginning was my dad's job. He was working in large for General Motors and moving around to

1:07.4

different countries and geographies for that. And then since graduate from college, I always wanted

1:12.8

to live and work out in the world. And I made that happen from day one. Yeah, it's amazing. So,

1:17.9

why is it that sparked your interest about kind of being this global no-mad? When you were a kid,

1:26.4

did you know that or is it just kind of what your existence was and what you were familiar with?

1:31.4

No, certainly. I went to an international school in Zurich for a few years of high school and

1:36.0

we were competing in sports against teams from as far away as Israel or Egypt and Germany and

1:42.1

Austria and France and kind of, you know, we traveled around the world a lot. And I just feel

1:48.3

very comfortable out in the world and I communicate and do business and engage well with other people.

1:53.8

So, I just wanted to be out there with them. Yeah. So, what did you want to be? Did you know you wanted

1:58.6

to go into finance or is there another job you thought you'd do? No, my career, my dream job at the

2:06.2

time was to be a diplomat. So, to go into the foreign service to do something along those lines.

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