Do you respect someone more if they manage more assets?

For example,

Person A manages 100k in assets with a return of 6% annually.
Person B manages 200k in assets with a return of 6% annually.

Does person B have more respect and you put more value to their opinion than person A?

Let me know in the poll below. I would also love to hear your comments on why you chose what you did.

Really good question—

I lean towards ‘No’ but I voted ‘Other’ because there’s lots of nuance here.

The difference between $100k and $200k doesn’t change the opportunities available. If you’re managing billions of dollars, you have less of an ability to invest in smaller companies, and so you might rationalize smaller returns are ok because the dollar amount is still so large.

I don’t respect person B more just because they have more money. But it does matter how they came about that money. Did they have higher returns previously? Or were they just given the money?

Nathan Worden

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