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Hedge fund manager Scott Fearon wants to talk about failure. Not that he's had too many personal encounters with failure in his 25 years as a money manager – his fund has averaged an 11.4 percent return in that time, and 2009 was the only year it ever lost money.
But Fearon celebrates the concept of failure – and its importance in free market economies – in his recently-released book, Dead Companies Walking.
He's spent decades analyzing more than 1,400 companies across the country and meeting in person with the people who run them. And he draws on those experiences to illustrate, through anecdotes and cautionary tales, some of the best and worst traits to look for in companies.
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