Gillian Tett
speaker
242 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Gillian Tett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you can go back to first principles and treat finance as really an extension of maths or physics.
But if everyone else around you has a different way of looking at the world and you have the madness of crowds getting more and more mad, then just using fundamental analysis won't explain momentum.
And that matters enormously for investing too.
Well, I think one thing we can see very clearly is having math skills is not the only tool you need to be a good investor at all, although that's been very dominant in recent years.
And of course, with the advent of AI, many of the big recruiters are rethinking what they actually want, and they want
Essentially critical thinking as well as facility with numbers and being able to understand the quantitative aspects of markets.
So to me, that's one message.
And another one is that you need not too much risk taking.
Otherwise, you can really blow up.
but also not being too risk-averse because otherwise you just do nothing.
So finding that sweet spot between taking on just enough risk to make some returns but not be so full of arrogance and risk-taking that you end up speculating crazily like Winston Churchill, that's the elusive sweet spot people need to try and find.
And don't succumb to FOMO.
And thank you also, Toby.
And I'm never going to think about John Benedict Haynes or Isaac Newton or Turner in the same way again.
But that's it for this week's episode of The Story of Money.
I'm Gillian Tett.
And we'll see you next week.
So they say that money runs the world.
From wildcat banks on the American frontier.
History, but especially financial history, has an uncanny way of repeating itself.
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