The Nature Investing: Resilient Investment Strategies Through Biomimicry Audiobook, by Katherine Collins Play Audiobook Sample

The Nature Investing: Resilient Investment Strategies Through Biomimicry Audiobook

The Nature Investing: Resilient Investment Strategies Through Biomimicry Audiobook, by Katherine Collins Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Lloyd James Publisher: Ascent Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2014 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781469059013

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

10

Longest Chapter Length:

43:05 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:15 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

28:27 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

We are all investors. We invest our time, our energy, our money. We invest every single day, as citizens, as consumers, as businesspeople. At its core, investing involves connection, exchange, and mutual benefit. Lately, however, the primary, beneficial function of investing has been overshadowed by ever-more mechanized iterations of finance. We have created funds of funds, securitizations of securitizations, and entire firms whose business is based on harvesting the advantage of microseconds of trading speed. The Nature of Investing calls for a transformation of the investment process from the roots up. Drawing on the author’s twenty-plus years of leadership experience in top investment firms, the book connects real-world finance with the field of biomimicry. Citing real-life examples and discussing principles from the natural world, The Nature of Investing shows how we can create an investment framework that is different from the mechanized one currently employed. Listeners will discover an approach that re-aligns investing with the world it was originally meant to serve. An approach that values resiliency over rigidity and elegant simplicity over synthetic complexity. This is the true nature of investing. Gildan Media and Bibliomotion are proud to bring you another Bibliomotion Audiobook. Featuring exceptional content for today’s listener, these notable audiobooks contain the essential tools that can be applied to every facet of your life.

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"The content of the book and the style of the narration are absolutely enlightening. This author is a revolutionary and the message she conveys is critical at this point in history. What is very angering to me, to the point that I find it difficult to listen to the audiobook, is that a book on investing written by a woman is narrated by a male voice. There are not enough female examples and role models and the difference it makes to listen to a book from a male voice vs a female one, especially when the author is a female, is HUGE. The use of a male voice in my experience fuels the myth that investing is a male dominated topic where even female voices don't get to emerge with full dignity. I am so disappointed at this, and I urge you to get the book narrated by a female narrator. It will increase the credibility of the publication by at least tenfold."

— E. (5 out of 5 stars)

Quotes

  • “Nature is our ultimate teacher and a powerful source of wisdom and resilience. This book can help everyone bring that bounty to our financial lives.”

    — Andrew Zolli, author of Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
  • “The Nature of Investing is a quiet revolution, shimmering with insight about bees, sea slugs, and the ultimate ‘why’ of finance. In generous and uncannily wise prose, Collins reminds us that we are all investors, and that our time, effort, and yes, our money, can be a nutrient, perpetuating that which makes life worth living. As an experienced biomimic who is now eager to invest, I had an ah-ha on every page.”

    — Janine Benyus, author, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature 
  • “Katherine Collins has done it! She turns modern portfolio theory on its head while explaining the nature of investments. A seasoned and highly successful portfolio manager, Katherine shares her insights with both a sense of humor and irrefutable logic, while knocking down many of Wall Street's sacred cows. By applying the laws of nature, particularly the wisdom of the honeybee, she opens the investor's mind to a whole new way of making money.”

    — Amy Domini, founder, Domini Social Investments

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About Katherine Collins

Katherine Collins is the founder and CEO of Honeybee Capital, dedicated to pollinating ideas in pursuit of optimal investment decision making. After a long and successful career as head of research and portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments, Katherine set out to re-integrate her investment philosophy with the broader world, traveling as a pilgrim and volunteer, earning her MTS degree at Harvard Divinity School, and studying biomimicry and the natural world as guides for investing in an integrated, regenerative way, beneficial to our communities and our planet. Katherine is author of The Nature of Investing, and her newest neighbors in Massachusetts are several thousand honeybees.

About Lloyd James

Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been narrating since 1996 and has recorded over six hundred audiobooks. He is a seven-time winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award and has twice been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award. His critically acclaimed performances include Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley Jr. and Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin, among others.