From managing the fortune of the Lowy family to running his own funds management business, Stephen Aboud has stuck to his mantra. Quality growth companies are few and far between but you don't need more than a handful to shoot the lights out. Mark Smith
reports.Stephen Aboud's formative experiences as a stock broker in the late 1980s and early 1990s were important in the development of his investment philosophy, but not in the way you might first think.
Those early years in jobs across institutional sales, research and proprietary trading with organisations including Macquarie and Deutsche Bank, taught the young banker as much about what not to do as what to do.
"It was a pretty hurly burly time," Aboud remembers. "I sat on a trading desk and didn't really think too much about what I was buying and selling."
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