Billionaire investor Mario Gabelli started investing when Eisenhower was president. He told us how he leverages almost 5 decades of experience to identify winning stocks – and shared 5 of his favorite picks.

• Mario Gabelli is one of the few self-made billionaire investors in the mutual-fund world.
• In an interview, Gabelli explains how he leverages decades of experience to identify winning stocks.
• He also shared the top themes he’s tracking and some of his favorite corresponding stock picks.

Mario Gabelli has seen it all. 

The billionaire fund manager, who grew up in the Bronx, started investing in 1955 when Dwight Eisenhower was the president of the United States.

“I remember going to a brokerage office in the Bronx near Fordham University and the tapes would run very late,” Gabelli said in an interview. “And I would stay there watching how they posted trades.”