Scott Phillips is a principal and portfolio manager at Lauren Templeton Capital Management, LLC, an alternative and traditional asset anagement firm that invests based on the principles of the legendary value investor Sir John Templeton. Before joining the firm, he served as research analyst and consultant to Green Cay Asset Management, where he was lead research analyst on the Siebels Hard Asset Fund, a long/short equity hedge fund focused on hard assets and commodities. With Lauren C. Templeton, he coauthored Investing the Templeton Way. He currently writes the globally distributed quarterly newsletter, The Maximum Pessimism Report.