Michael Batnick
Investment researcher, author and blogger
Michael Batnick is an American investment researcher and author who writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor. He wrote Big Mistakes, about the costly errors of famous investors.
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About Michael Batnick
Michael Batnick is a Chartered Financial Analyst from Merrick, New York. He is director of research at Ritholtz Wealth Management, where he sits on the investment committee and leads the firm's internal research. Much of his work involves building portfolio and risk strategies for clients. Batnick writes the daily blog The Irrelevant Investor, which aims to help people learn about investing. He also co-hosts the podcasts Animal Spirits and The Compound and Friends. In 2018 he published Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments. The book looks at how investors such as Warren Buffett and Bill Ackman went wrong, and at the lessons that shaped their later, more successful approaches.