EFEB Speaker Shares Journey in Investing

The Economics, Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Business (EFEB) Concentration kicked off its Club Block Conversations with a visit from Potomac parent Scott Barbee, owner and president of Aegis Financial Corporation, a fund manager based in McLean. In his talk, titled "Journey of a Wall Street Skeptic," Mr. Barbee walked the students through his life and work as a value investor. He said that developing curiosity about the world is key to being a good investor and encouraged the students to gain an informational advantage by "densifying [their] web of understanding." Mr. Barbee closed his presentation with a discussion of behavioral psychology, which is important to investing, through Rudyard Kipling's poem "If."