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JPMorgan's Cembalest Sends His Son Off To College And A Very Different World

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Mark Melin
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With his second son headed to college, JPMorgan’s Michael Cembalest shares practical advice provided to his son but are words of wisdom that apply across the board, including at times on Wall Street. He addressed thinking independently amid “ideological uniformity,” while mixing humorous advice on dating and cloths color choices with serious notes on consent, binge drinking, the realities of a green planet and life after college. College and social norms have changed dramatically since Cembalest attended school.

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The real world, where people pay taxes, has a different political skew than in college

Going away to school, students are faced with making their own decisions, handling responsibility and forming opinions on the...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.