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Investing in Quality: Lessons from the Financial Crisis
This chapter analyzes the robust growth of companies like Amazon, Costco, and Berkshire Hathaway during the financial crisis, highlighting the value of investing in quality businesses. It encourages a positive outlook for investors, emphasizing resilience and strategic decision-making in challenging times.
On today’s episode, Kyle Grieve discusses the investing philosophy and concepts from the Nomad Investment Partnership, how they created their fund structure to align themselves with partners, why they settled on inactivity, the powerful effects of businesses that share profits with customers rather than shareholder, how they ended up focusing on the scale economies shared business model, how they dealt with commitment bias, and a whole lot more!
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00 - Intro
04:17 - How Nomad Investment Partnership created their ground rules to succeed in the long term
05:37 - The rare and unconventional way that Nomad wanted to be evaluated by their partners
09:13 - Why inactivity only works with certain businesses, and NOT all businesses
13:48 - The extraordinary returns of Costco, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway since the depths of the GFC, and a great insight into what Nomad said about that particular time
15:26 - Why Nomad focused on the scaled economics shared business model
20:29 - How Nomad utilized the concept of a "cone of uncertainty" to better understand risk and help with position sizing
29:12 - Why a deep understanding of a business earlier than the market is so beneficial and allows you to have outsized position sizes that can continue growing at market-beating returns
31:46 - Why your next best investing opportunity might already be in your portfolio
40:41 - Specific questions to ask to help you utilize destination analysis for long-term holdings
43:03 - The four most powerful mistakes that Nick and Zak observed
Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.
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