thedailybell.com / By?Anthony Wile /?November 11, 2012
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with?Ned Schmidt?(left).
Introduction:?Ned W. Schmidt, CFA has nearly forty years of experience as a value oriented investment manager and researcher. He publishes the Agri-Food Value View, the premier investment newsletter on agriculture and food, as well as well as Agri-Food Commodities, a quarterly review of returns produced by Agri-Commodities. His investment activities have included management of $3.5 billion of discretionary portfolios serving individuals and retirement plans. Ned was the value editor for the Global Advisor published in Toronto, and successfully managed an offshore mutual fund for that firm. In his effort to save investors from financial abyss of?paper money, he publishes The Value View Gold Report monthly and the weekly Trading Thoughts.
Daily Bell:?Thank you for taking time to sit down with us. Tell us about your background. Where did you grow up and go to school?
Ned Schmidt:?I grew up in Southern Illinois with something of an agricultural background. After the Army, and an all-expense paid year in a beautiful Asian location, I attended Southern Illinois University. From there I went to the University of Georgia for graduate school. My degrees are both in Finance and I am a CFA Chartered Financial Analyst.
Daily Bell:?Give us some background on your professional career.
Ned Schmidt:?My first job out of school was as the oil analyst for a major trust investment operation in Atlanta. They made me the oil analyst in January 1974 because oil was not very exciting. They were obviously wrong on that one, and I had to scramble to learn about places no one knew of like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
From there I went on to be a portfolio manager in Nashville, Tennessee. And yes, I did have some accounts, though small, for some famous people. Living in Georgia and then Tennessee gave me great appreciation for catfish and barbecue.
Then I was on to Tulsa, Oklahoma. There I became the manager for an investment management group. Investors in that region were interesting. Some made their money in the highest risk industry, drilling for oil and gas. However, their investments were far more conservative. They were interested in return of investment first, and return on investment second. They were also very global in their view. Many had worked all over the world in the oil fields.
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