12-31-12: Beating The Odds with Eddie Brown

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This segment originally aired on May 9, 2011.

Eddie Brown is a renowned money manager. His firm, Brown Capital Management, has $4.2 billion under management and he is equally renowned as one of the leading philanthropists in the country. In 2011, the Maryland Historical Society named him and his wife, Sylvia, the Marylanders of the Year in recognition of their generosity to both national and local causes, including gifts to the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Pratt Library, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, and many others.

Mr. Brown was born over seventy years ago, to a 13-year-old unwed mother, in the heart of the Jim Crow South. His journey from a house without running water in Apopka, FL, to the upper echelons of the financial world is chronicled in an inspirational autobiography called Beating the Odds: Eddie Brown’s Investing and Life Strategies. Tom Hall spoke with Brown about his book in May, 2011.