Ridaa H. Murad
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RIDAA MURAD
Founder     Investor     Entrepreneur
The world through my eyes

ABOUT

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Born in Chittagong.  Lived in London, Hong Kong, Okayama, New York City. Venice Beach, Newport Beach is home for now.
​Recovering finance geek, with a wanderlust for life, a thirst for knowledge, and a constant desire to discover what works.
Behavioral Economist. Avid reader. Harrovian. Bardian. Kipling's "IF" is my religion.

Golfer. Squash fanatic. Oenophile by accident.

​Kahneman, Tversky and Thaler are my Superman, Spiderman and Batman.
My dad taught me to make friends and not enemies.  
My mom taught me to listen more than I speak.  
My grandfather taught me to read more than I write.  
Leon Levy taught me that human incentives and behavioral psychology rules all.  
Alex Garbuio gave me the courage and backing to grow wings.  
Bear Stearns was my proving ground.

I opportunistically invest in niches with the greatest dislocation and fragmentation directly or via proven managers and operators. 
Measured & calculated risk is good risk, worth taking.
In investing, leverage and mismatches of duration will kill you.
It's better to get things done than not deliver waiting for perfection.

​You know retirement will be overrated if "garden leave" drives you nuts.
To beat the median, you have to have idiosyncratic views away from the norm.  
Take the path less travelled when you aren't comfortable doing so.

All views, opinions and judgements are mine.
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MY JOURNEY

FOUNDER:
BREAKFORM | RE

Habitat Homes

CO-FOUNDER:
Topaz Capital Partners
BEDROCK | GROUP

Breakform Ventures
Independence Brewing Co. 

Veda Asset Management, LLC
Christina Development, LLC


CHARITIES & ORGANIZATIONS:
Immigranted - Board Member
Kathi Koll Foundation - Board Member
Foreign Policy Association - John C. Whitehead Fellow
Young Entrepreneur Council - Member
Urban Land Institute - Member
Forbes Real Estate Council - Member
Venice Chamber of Commerce - Member
Building Industry Association of SoCal - Member
Young Wall Street - Founding Member
StreetSquash - Volunteer
CitySquash - Volunteer
EMPLOYEE:
Bear Stearns & Co. Inc.
Barclays Capital
HSBC Securities USA N.A.


INTERN:
Chittagong Stock Exchange
Cross Border Enterprises

Intermarket


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NEWS & PUBLISHED WORKS

  • Forbes: Could Private Investments Increase The Availability Of Affordable Housing

  • LinkedIN Publishing: Manufactured Housing Communities: Here To Fix  The Affordable Housing Shortage
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  • LinkedIN Publishing: Are Manufactured Housing Communities The Answer To California's Home Ownership Rates?
 
  • Forbes: Opportunity Zones' Social Impact on California's Housing Market​
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  • Forbes: Are Manufactured Housing Communities An Answer To The Affordable Housing Shortage?
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  • Airows: This Contemporary House In Venice Beach Is A Design Masterpiece
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  • Forbes: Opportunity Zones: The Antidote To Los Angeles' Housing Crisis
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  • Forbes: Affordable Housing: 11 Ways The Real Estate Industry Can Help
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  • Forbes: How Hopeful California Homebuyers Can Combat Five Drivers Of High Residential Real Estate Prices
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  • Forbes: 14 Ways The Real Estate Business Is Going To Change This Year, According To Experts
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  • Forbes: What People Want:  11 Ways Consumers And Workers Are Shifting The Public Space Paradigm
 
  • Forbes: 11 Real Estate Pros Share The Technology Shifts That Have Changed The Way They Work
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  • Forbes: Experts Clear The Air On 15 Misconceptions About Flipping Houses
 
  • Airows: This Cool Contemporary House In Venice Beach Will Have you Dreaming Of Building Your Own
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  • Forbes: 13 Evergreen real Estate Tips That Hold True In Any Market ​
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  • ​Forbes: 13 Insider Tips To Take Your Real Estate Game To Another Level
 
  • Forbes: Should You Jump On The Real Estate Tech Bandwagon?
 
  • EisnerAmper Trend Watch: Q&A with Ridaa Murad, Founder and CIO of BREAKFORM | RE
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  • Forbes: Los Angeles' Housing Shortage and Why Developers Get It Wrong
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  • Forbes: Five Ways Blockchain Can Impact The Real Estate Market For Better
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  • Forbes: If You're A First Time Homebuyer Look For These Traits In A Real Estate Agent
 
  • Forbes: 10 Real Estate Features That Need To Remain Traditional
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  • Forbes: Eight Ways Virtual And Augmented Reality Are Changing The Real Estate Industry
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  • Forbes: Six Resources You Can Use To Uncover The State Of Your Housing Market
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  • Forbes: 10 Signs An Up And Coming Area Is Worth Investing In
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  • Forbes: How To Insure Your First Investment Property Isn't A Bust
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  • Forbes: Nine International Areas Real Estate Investors Should Give A Look
 
  • Forbes: How To Decide Between Hiring A Property Management Firm Or Self Managing A Property
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  • LinkedIN Publishing: Residential Properties - The "Big Wave" Investment Opportunity
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  • LinkedIN Publishing:  The Single Family Home - Rise Of An Asset Class
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  • LinkedIN Publishing:  Small Lot Townhomes - 1st Time Homebuyer's Affordable Dream
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  • ​LinkedIN Publishing:  The Relative Differentials In Real Estate Investing
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  • LinkedIN Publishing: Multi Family Housing:  Why It's The Darling Of Real Estate Investors
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  • LinkedIN Publishing: There Are No Bonus Points For Complicated Investments
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  • FinAlternatives: Ex Bear Exec Preps Multi Strategy India FoHF
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  • Institutional Investor: New York Firm Preps Unusual Infrastructure Fund
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  • VC Circle: Former Bear Stearns Exec Forms India Infrastructure Fund
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  • HedgeFundsIndia.com: Ex Bear Stearns Director Preps India Multi Strat Fund
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  • Opalesque: Veda Makes A Case For India With Launch of Fund Of Funds
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  • HFM Week: Veda Fund To Add New Managed Account
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  • EurekaHedge: India Focused Hedge Funds In For Long Haul
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  • Huffington Post: Sushi Burrito - The Real Estate Family Office And Crowdfunding Conference
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  • BisNOW:  Christina Development In Property Search Mode​
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  • SUCCESS: 13 Pieces Of Career Advice To Help You Flourish At Work
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READING LIST

  • Dream Big
  • The Outsiders​
  • Why Nations Fail
  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
  • Zero To One
  • The Rational Optimist
  • Shoe Dog
  • The Grid
  • ​Chaos Monkeys
  • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
  • Heuristics & Biases
  • Thinking Fast & Slow
  • Choices Values & Frames
  • Preference, Belief & Similarity
  • The Winner's Curse
  • Talent is Overrated
  • The Idea Factory
  • Predictably Irrational
  • A More Beautiful Question
  • The Sports Gene
  • Steve Jobs
  • Call Me Ted
  • The Art Of War
  • Boomerang
  • Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator
  • The New Market Wizards
  • Capital Ideas
  • Against The Gods
  • ​Wall Street Meat
  • Julian Robertson: A Tiger In The Land Of Bulls & Bears
  • Monkey Business
  • Value Investing: A Balanced Approach
  • ​Running Money
  • Atlas Shrugged
  • Fountainhead
  • The Alchemy Of Finance
  • Inside The House Of Money
  • Ugly Americans
  • Hedgehogging
  • Fooled By Randomness
  • The Black Swan
  • The Money Culture
  • Losers
  • Coach: Lessons On The Game Of Life
  • A Good Man
  • The Match
  • Future Forms & Design For Sustainable Cities
  • Walkable City
  • The Last Tycoons
  • The New Paradigm For Financial Markets
  • Too Big To Fail
  • The Greatest Trade Ever
  • Learning From The Heart
  • Lucky Man: A Memoir
  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions
  • Manias Panics & Crashes
  • Of Permanent Value
  • Investment Biker
  • Adventure Capitalist
  • More Than You Know
  • Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing
  • The First Billion Is The Hardest
  • Panic: The Story Of Modern Financial Insanity
  • Pacific Rift
  • Latticework
  • The Pursuit of Justice
  • Essentialism
  • The Alliance
  • Valley Boy
  • Long Walk To Freedom
  • The Better Angels Of Our Nature
  • Genome
  • The End Of Power
  • Einstein: His Life & Universe
  • Ben Franklin: An American Life
  • Business Adventures
  • Guns, Germs & Steel
  • Where Good Ideas Come From
  • The City That Became Safe
  • The Cost Of Hope
  • The Grid
  • ​Why America Is Not A New Rome
  • Barbarians At The Gate
  • The End Of Theory
  • Great By Choice
  • How The Mighty Fall
  • House Of Cards
  • The House Of Morgan
  • Titan
  • Grinding It Out
  • Grit:  The Power Of Passion & Perseverance
  • The Dhando Investor
  • The Ascent Of Money
  • ​More Money Than God
  • ​Focus
  • John Adams
  • ​Irrational Exuberance
  • Goldman Sachs: A Culture Of Success
  • ​Dream Hoarders
  • The New Urban Crisis
  • How To Kill A City
  • The Airbnb Story
  • Move Fast & Break Things
  • ​What The Dog Saw
  • ​Digital Gold
  • ​Principles
  • ​Thank You For Being Late
  • The Most Important Thing Illuminated
  • Crash Of The Titans
  • ​How To Win Friends & Influence People
  • ​The Clash Of Cultures
  • Richer, Wiser, Happier​
  • Range​
  • Capital
  • The Intelligent Investor
  • The Aggressive Conservative Investor
  • Memos From The Chairman
  • The Mind of Wall Street
  • The One Thing
  • Creativity Inc.
  • Built To Last
  • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move The World
  • The Undoing Project
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
  • The Rise of Superman
  • Nudge
  • The Upstarts
  • Outliers
  • Freakonomics
  • Blink
  • The Tipping Point
  • The Real Price of Everything
  • First, Break All The Rules
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things
  • David & Goliath
  • The China Study
  • Willpower: Rediscovering The Greatest Human Strength
  • The Last Lecture
  • Security Analysis
  • Where Are The Customer's Yachts
  • In An Uncertain World
  • Bull!  A History Of The Boom
  • The Worldly Philosophers
  • Tunnel Thru The Air
  • Trend Following
  • ​Moneyball
  • The Smartest Guys In The Room
  • When Genius Failed
  • Origins Of The Crash
  • How To Trade In Stocks
  • The Money Game
  • Bringing Down The House
  • The Predators Ball
  • The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
  • NEXT: The Future Just Happened
  • Distress Investing
  • The Dhando Investor
  • Love Letters Of Great Men
  • Fooling Some Of The People All Of The Time
  • The Snowball
  • What It Takes To Be #1
  • The Undercover Economist
  • King Of Capital
  • In Spite Of The Gods
  • Chindia
  • The King Of Oil
  • What The Dog Saw
  • ​Home Game: An Accidental Guide To Fatherhood
  • Stabilizing An Unstable Economy
  • The Road To Serfdom
  • The Ascent Of Money
  • House Of Cards
  • The Tipping Point
  • Profiles In Courage
  • Dreams From My Father
  • Hot Flat & Crowded
  • The World Is Flat
  • The Big Short
  • Sway:  The Irresistible Pull Of Irrational Behavior
  • Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived
  • Without Their Permission
  • Different: Escaping The Competitive Herd
  • The Alchemist
  • ​Designing Sustainable Cities
  • Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
  • Meditations
  • World Order
  • The Other Side Of Infamy
  • Structures, Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
  • Our Final Invention
  • The Innovator's Dilemma
  • The Signal & The Noise
  • The Price Of Inequality
  • Tap Dancing To Work
  • Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
  • Broken Genius
  • Fear & Greed
  • Good To Great
  • Street Fighters
  • The Rise & Fall Of Bear Stearns
  • The House Of Rothschild
  • Money & Power
  • Lords Of Finance
  • Think & Grow Rich
  • Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World
  • The Education Of A Value Investor​​
  • The HP Way
  • Jefferson: Architect Of American Liberty
  • Painfully Rich
  • Scale
  • ​Emotional Intelligence
  • ​Profiles In Courage
  • This Time Is Different
  • The End Of Poverty
  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street
  • Adaptive Markets
  • Den Of Thieves
  • Liar's Poker
  • The Color Of Law
  • ​Street Fight
  • The Facebook Effect
  • Margin Of Safety
  • First A Dream
  • Power Vs. Force
  • ​The Talent Code

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