ANALYSE THIS: Old Mututal’s Meryl Pick
We analyse Meryl Pick, retail analyst at Old Mutual Investors’ Fund
We analyse Meryl Pick, retail analyst at Old Mutual Investors’ Fund. If someone came to you tomorrow with R100m to invest in just one company, which would it be? Remgro, for the underlying diversity at a decent price. Which talent would you most like to have? I’d love to be able to run faster. I have to work really hard just to finish a road race within the cut-off time. What’s the best investment you’ve ever made? Investing time into an MBA. Without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled onto this career, which has turned out to be a perfect fit. How much was your first pay cheque and what did you do with it? For my first full-time job, about R8,000. I didn’t do anything memorable with it: paid rent, bought groceries. I saved half of it because I was planning to buy my first car and I needed a deposit. If you could turn back time, what would you change in your life? I think I could have been less serious at high school and varsity, but I wouldn’t change much other than that. What’s the worst...
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