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My Life in 4 Trades - Lifelong Learning Is Todd Edgar’s Key to Success

Real Vision: Finance & Investing

Real Vision

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Todd Edgar was once one of Wall Street’s star proprietary traders. Before he started Atreaus Family in 2019, he worked for some of the biggest houses in investment banking. In this episode of My Life In Four Trades, Todd shares the critical lessons he’s learned over nearly three decades in financial markets, explaining to Maggie Lake how “naïve optimism” helped shape his entrepreneurial mindset and why embracing lifelong learning is the key to success. Never miss an episode of My Life in 4 Trades - subscribe here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

you mythical status or get you a nickname like Mad Dog or Dragon's Breath. It's hot. Good hot.

0:10.8

The kind of hot that boosts taste nothing else. The ultimate spicy meatball with Siracha

0:15.2

Drizzle from Domino's, it will get you fired up. Subject to availability.

0:19.9

You know, anyone starting a fund, if you'll get the statistics, the chance of you being in any way

0:29.9

successful or infinitesimally low. And not only that, if you think about the opportunity cost

0:37.4

that you incur and doing that, so you can do everything right that if investors don't like you,

0:43.2

you won't raise any money. You can do everything right. Trading, but if you don't have the

0:47.8

infrastructure, they won't give you any money. So you can, you know, be the best guy in the world

0:53.1

if you start at a time that your strategy is going to struggle. You're one of the business.

0:59.0

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

1:03.7

Edgar, CIO of Atreus Family Office. Enjoy the conversation.

1:12.6

Hi Todd. Welcome to My Life in Four Trades. Hi Maggie. Thanks for having me.

1:16.8

So happy to have you. I have to say, I'm so intrigued by the Four Trades you sent over.

1:21.7

So I'm excited. But before we jump in, it's our tradition to have our guests tell us a little

1:27.6

bit about themselves. So give us a little bit about your background where you grow up and

1:31.2

what were those early years like? Well, it's a probably good segue into a couple of the trades,

1:35.1

actually. So as you might might about tell from my accent, which I'm grimly still trying to

1:40.7

hang on to, I'm Australian. But I've been away from Australia for 26 years now. So my accent is not

1:47.4

what it once was. I grew up in country Australia. So my accent was much much much much thicker than

1:53.6

what it is now. At the point where I go back there now and my high school friends all tease me

1:56.9

for sounding like Greg Norman. And it's just horrible. By the way, that's the one thing you

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