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The Tony Robbins Podcast

Investing Smart | How to create long-term wealth

The Tony Robbins Podcast

Tony Robbins

Marketing, Smallbusinessowner, Education, Tonyrobbins, Business

4.46.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

How can the average investor prosper and yet still protect himself in these extraordinarily turbulent times? How do we navigate the financial landscape today to create long-term wealth? While you may get many different answers to these questions, one thing remains the same – you must understand the economic environment you are investing in and leverage it to your advantage.

In this episode of the Tony Robbins Podcast, you will hear from Ashwin Vasan – CIO of macro hedge fund Trend Capital – as he discusses how he built one of the most successful hedge funds during an economic winter, and the current global trends that may have a tremendous impact on your investment decisions.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Tony Robbins again. Welcome to the podcast. Listen, today I'm going to talk to you about

0:10.3

how to do well in tough times because most of us know that 2008 came and many of us remember

0:16.5

her in business. It was a crazy and wild year to say the least, and a lot of businesses didn't make it.

0:22.2

And for those of us that found a way to not only hang in there, but to grow, to thrive, many of us

0:27.8

innovated because of that time. Because if you can do well in wintertime, if you can do time

0:31.8

when everyone else is having a difficult time, then when things get better, you just have more

0:36.4

momentum and you drive. In fact,

0:38.7

if I were to ask you, when do you think is the best season to start a business? If we talked

0:42.6

about seasons in economic terms, you know, there's the springtime when everything is growing

0:47.0

like crazy because it's all new and it's easy to grow in the springtime of a business, like a new

0:51.4

business or a new industry or a young economy. The second season,

0:56.3

of course, it would be summertime when it's kind of hot and intense. And very often during that time,

1:00.8

you don't get to see the reward right away. And then, of course, there's fall or autumn where you

1:05.4

get to reap all the rewards. If you push through and did the right things in spring, you're going to reap in the fall. If you didn't, you're going to weep in the fall, right?

1:12.9

And then, of course, there's winter.

1:14.5

And winter is designed specifically.

1:16.9

It's in nature.

1:18.2

There's economic winters.

1:19.4

They come regularly and they come with a pattern.

1:22.4

And if you understand history, you know they're there.

1:24.1

And what is the purpose of winter? It's to get rid of anything that's weak so that only the strong survive. And the strong survive and they begin to thrive.

1:31.4

For example, if you go to the Fortune 1000, the thousand biggest, the most successful

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