#HASHTAG: PETER HICKEY

Along with his partners, North Shore native PETER HICKEY has just launched Peregrine Economics, an economic consulting firm. Hickey focuses his expert practice in the areas of financial markets litigation and regulatory matters, business valuation disputes, and complex commercial litigation damages. Hickey lives with his wife Dody and their three children in Wilmette where his children attend Saint Francis Catholic School and Loyola Academy.

#ON MY NIGHTSTAND

Wisdom of Finance and How Finance Works by Mihir Desai (Harvard University). Both of these books are approachable for non-finance types and I highly recommend them. I worked on a consulting project with Mihir and he was very good at explaining something fairly complicated in terms that are easy to understand. I also just finished a heartbreaking yet uplifting book written by a college friend and talented executive coach Nick Shaw called My Teacher My Son in which he bravely shares his experience dealing with the tragic death of his 9-year-old son William in 2019.

#ON MY MOBILE

I read The Wall Street Journal all day and also do a lot of LinkedIn surfing, where I think you get what you give. Their algorithms are pretty good at putting great posts at the top of my page based on things I have posted or liked. LinkedIn is a great tool to keep in touch with old contacts and meet new professional contacts, especially as we are now spreading the word about our new firm.

#IN MY EARBUDS

I am a sucker for true crime podcasts but as my wife points out, they never solve the case. Right now I am listening to Rob Reiner’s Who Killed JFK and anxiously awaiting episode 8. I also enjoyed Anderson Cooper’s All There Is. In the car I listen to mostly the Grateful Dead Channel or ‘80s music, much to the annoyance of my children.