Alasdair (Sandy) Nairn is one of the founders of Edinburgh
Partners, an independent fund management company which was acquired
by Franklin Templeton in 2018. Prior to establishing Edinburgh
Partners he was chief investment officer of Scottish Widows
investment Partnership, and between 1990 and 2000 was employed by
Templeton Investment Management where he was executive vice
president and director of global equity research.
Before joining Templeton investment Management, Sandy spent four
years at Murray Johnstone as a portfolio manager and research
analyst. Prior to that, he spent a year as an economist at the
Scottish Development Agency. He is currently Investment Partner and
CEO of Edinburgh Partners and Chairman of the Templeton Global
Equity Group.
Sandy graduated from the University of Strathclyde and has a PhD in
economics from the University of Strathclyde/Scottish Business
School. He is an Associate of the UK Society of Investment
Professionals in the UK and is a CFA charterholder with the CFA
Institute in the United States. In 2020 he was elected a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In 2001, he published the first edition of Engines That Move
Markets, with the updated second edition being published in 2018.
He has won multiple performance awards for the management of global
equity portfolios over his 37-year investment career. In 2012 he
co-authored the book Templeton's Way With Money with Jonathan
Davis.
This book has much wisdom, and much that could be learned by
investors or companies plannning to back new technologies.
*Financial Times*
An outstanding book - a must read for all serious investors and for
anyone interested in technology. A meticulously researched,
scholarly, yet very readable and often amusing account of how
technology has changed our lives and the world we live in over the
last 200 years. The focus is on the returns from investing in
technology, the pitfalls, and the timeless lessons.
*Professor Paul Marsh, Emeritus Professor of Finance at London
Business School and coauthor of the Triumph of the Optimists and
The Global Investment Returns Yearbook*
An intriguing study of the psychology and market dynamics
underlying technology-based stock market manias.
*Barry Riley, Financial Times*
Engines That Move Markets is an insightful study into the history
of technology and the lessons it has taught us. This book reveals
in detail how technology has changed our economy, our markets, our
society and the world we live in. Sandy Nairn has combined his
talents as a scholar, analyst and investor to guide us through the
past and help us understand where the future has yet to lead
us.
*Thomas L. Hansberger, CFA, president and CEO, Hansberger Global
Investors, Inc.*
One of the best books ever written on investing - and on
technology, too. History repeats itself, especially in technology.
You should not invest in new technologies before you study how old
technologies were created, developed, matured and disrupted. What
is happening today in AI and cryptocurrencies might be analogous to
the whale oil industry of 1850s or the horse-drawn carriages of the
1890s.
*Philippe Laffont, Founder of 5starrated technology hedge fund,
Coatue Management*
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