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FBI Interview Tricks Help This Fund Manager See Through CEO Lies
Rhett Kessler took a course from former FBI agents on how to interrogate subjects, and he’s bringing the “powerful” skills he learned to the world of investing. Kessler, senior fund manager of the A$1.1 billion ($727 million) Pengana Australian Equities Fund, uses the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s interview techniques to get under the skin of chief executive officers, seeking to catch them in lies, exaggerations and deflections of blame for their actions. By gauging if they’re trustworthy and competent, he decides whether to hold their companies’ shares. “We are like the FBI,” Kessler said in an ... (full story)