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The Happy Investor

The most personal podcast for people in asset management. Tune in for stories, strategies and conversations to help you be your best self at work and beyond.
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When to Seek Help From an Executive Coach, with Julia Hart

In a four-part mini-series, fellow executive coach Julia Hart and I try to be as open as we can about what goes on behind the walls of coaching. We share our personal experiences as coaches and coachees, we explain what coaching is, how it works and why it can be incredibly powerful for those who commit to it. You can already listen to the first three episodes!

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How to Thrive as an Introvert in Asset Management, with Joe Wiggins

Joe Wiggins, the curator of the popular blog Behavioural Investment, talks about what it’s like to be an introvert in asset management. Is there an Extrovert Ideal in this industry? And if so, how did Joe find his way? We also look at this topic from a leadership perspective. What can managers do to create an environment in which both introverts and extroverts can thrive?

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How to Improve Your Listening Skills and Why You Should, with Oscar Trimboli

Listening is arguably the most important communication skill for investors. In this episode, executive coach Oscar Trimboli breaks down the art of listening. You’ll learn about the importance of listening, where to start when you want to improve your skills, how to get into the right mindset to listen and why deep listening is so incredibly difficult to most of us.

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Mick Dillon on His Drive to Be an Investor, Productivity and How to Manage Your Energy

Mick Dillon returns to the show to talk about what makes him a happy investor, why true productivity is not about face time and how he maintains his energy throughout the day. You’ll learn about Circadian and seasonal rhythms, optimizing downtime, how to match your productivity with your energy levels and why it’s crucial to discuss these topics within your team.

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Building Better Reading Habits and Why It Matters for Investors, with Mick Dillon

Mick Dillon, a portfolio manager in the global equity team of Brown Advisory, talks about how to become a more productive reader. You’ll learn about Mick’s reading habits, his ideas on expiring versus compounding knowledge, time management, the value of book clubs, the burden of experience and how reading helps you become a better investor.

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How to Lead When Your Team Is Drowning, Work Keeps Increasing and You Feel Stuck

Executive coach Tom Henschel shares his process for helping managers of overstretched investment teams get unstuck. You’ll learn how to share bad news, how to ask for more resources, what not to say when you are feeling hopeless and why it’s so incredibly important for managers to ask for help and to take care of themselves.

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ESG: The Itch, and What to Do About It, with Jorik van den Bos

Jorik van den Bos, the former head of Kempen’s Dividend Team, opens up about something he struggled with during his last ten years as an investor: applying environmental, social and governance criteria in the investment process. You’ll hear how ESG showed up in his work, how he struggled, and what he did to deal with it.

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How to Manage Yourself and Others Through Disruptive Change

Ewout van Schaick is the head of Multi Asset at NN Investment Partners. In this episode, Ewout shares his ideas on how to manage yourself and your team through disruptive change. He also reflects on how his profession has changed throughout his 25 years in investing and what this means for him and the people he works with.

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How to Lead Your Former Peers When Taking on Your First Management Role

Mamie Kanfer Stewart is an executive coach and the host of The Modern Manager podcast. In this episode, she talks about the challenges investment experts face when taking on their first management role. You’ll learn how to lead your former peers, and how to have tough conversations to keep your people accountable.

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Make This One Shift to Help Transform Your Company Meetings

This is a short episode about interviewing. I will share one basic idea that you can immediately use to get more out of your meetings with company management – and I think it’s equally relevant if you are selecting fund managers.

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How to Be More Like a Coach When Leading Investment Teams

Michael Bungay Stanier is the best-selling author of 'The Coaching Habit'. In this episode, you’ll learn practical tools, questions and mindsets that help you kickstart and guide 1-on-1 coaching conversations with your team that only take 10 minutes or less.

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3 Tips to Build Better Habits (and Why You Need Them in Bear Markets)

In this short episode, you'll learn three quick tips to break bad habits and build good ones. I also share how these insights have helped me create better habits through the years, and explain why this topic might be especially relevant for you in the current markets.

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How Finding Your Added Value Makes You a Better (and Happier) Investor

Clare Flynn Levy joins me to talk about intellectual curiosity. She explains why it makes sense for investors to look into the mirror and capture data about their own behavior. You'll also learn how to build your own feedback loops and how to stick to the habit.

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Managing Ego in Investment Teams

Jorik van den Bos looks back on his 15 years as head of Kempen’s successful Dividend Team. You’ll learn how he kept his team together for such a long time, why understanding ego is absolutely critical and why he recently decided to take the biggest leap of his professional life.

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How Investors Ignore Their Most Precious Asset

What is this podcast about and who is it for? That’s the question I will answer in this first episode. You’ll learn about the tagline ‘from surviving to thriving in asset management’ and why I call this show the most personal podcast in the industry. I also talk about the P/PC balance and how it relates to you.

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The Happy Investor (Trailer)

Welcome to The Happy Investor, the most personal podcast for people in asset management. Tune in for stories, strategies and conversations to help you be your best at work and beyond. You'll learn from your fellow investors and some of the world's leading coaches and leadership experts.

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I'm always looking for investment professionals who are willing to share their personal story and life lessons on the podcast. If this is you or someone you know, please get in touch!

Mail to: marcel@thehappyinvestorpodcast.com

About me

My name is Marcel van de Hoef, and I help financial experts and their organizations develop leadership in communication and behavior. Whether I work as a podcast host, interviewer, trainer or coach, meaningful conversations are the common thread running through everything I do.

I started my career as a journalist more than 20 years ago, working for Bloomberg, AP and other news agencies, and took on various management roles in the financial media and communication sector. In addition to my work as a coach, I've spent the past 10 years as an independent communication expert, interviewing investors and entrepreneurs.

I have a passion for communication, human behavior and leadership that I pour into my podcast and blog, The Happy Investor (previously Meeting Strategist). I live with my family in Hilversum, where you can find me out hiking in the woods every day.
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Meeting Strategist

On this podcast, which ran between 2018 and 2020, I interview professionals and thinkers from the worlds of investment, business and arts about their approach to leadership and everyday interactions in the workplace.

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What Autonomous Teams Can Teach You About Effective Meetings

One of the biggest differences that people experience when joining an autonomous team is that they meet much more. How can you have so many meetings and still be effective? Researcher Irene Sinteur and I distilled eight best practices that autonomous teams use to keep their meetings healthy and productive.

What Investors Can Learn From the World's Greatest Listeners

Humility and confidence: the world’s greatest listeners manage to bring this paradoxical blend to life in each and every interaction. Here’s what investors can learn from them.

5 Principles I Rely on to Become a Better Listener

Listening is the most neglected communication skill of all. Even the most talkative types spend most of their lives listening. Yet, few of us receive training to hone our skills. Here are a few tips to get you started.
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