Market Champions

Michael Fritzell is a value investor based in Singapore with a focus on investing in Asian countries, like Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan. Here he discusses the property market in Indonesia, what makes Indonesia (and other Asian countries) ripe for investment, the pricing power of Korean soy sauce companies, and more!  You can find his work here: https://www.asiancenturystocks.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alfonso Peccatiello was recently the manager of a $20B bond portfolio for a European bank, and now writes the Macro Compass newsletter full time. Here he discusses QE, credit, money printing, inflation vs deflation, what it was like running $20B and more!Here's his most recent newsletter piece, discussing the macro framework needed for 2022: https://themacrocompass.substack.com/p/2022portfolioAn interview with a lot of alpha on offer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Harris Kupperman is the founder of Praetorian Capital and well known for his investments in the uranium and energy sector. Here we discuss uranium, energy, carbon credits, building a hedge fund, and a lot more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vishaal Bhuyan started off on the NYMEX, and is the author of The Esoteric Investor, covering aging demographics, tuna markets and water - and ran a portfolio of OTC exotic derivatives for a family office. He's presently the CEO of Aanika Biosciences, and here he shares a lot of the theses, how he played them and the Aanika story! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mike Taylor was formerly the MD of CriticalMass Partners, and a portfolio manager specializing in healthcare. He presently runs the not-for-profit Simplify Health Care ETF.Here he shares his views on biotechs he likes, how to run a short book, China and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kevin Muir is the writer of the renowned newsletter The Macro Tourist, host of the Market Huddle podcast, and a former prop trader. Here he discusses various themes he's watching including oil, nat gas, uranium, China, inflation, and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

J Mintzmyer is a value investor and one of the foremost analysts focused on shipping, supply chains and more. In this conversation we discuss the nature of shipping, supply chains, the different categories of shipping, where he sees opportunity and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chase Taylor is the founder of Pinecone Macro, a macro research firm. In this episode, he discusses his investments in coal, uranium, energy in general, talks about what he believes could be the 'next big trade' and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Gomes is a former Wall Streeter turned independent stock picker and has generated 40% a year for 20 years. Here he shares how he thinks about stocks, pattern recognition, risk-reward framework, and shares some of his favorite investment ideas at this time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ben Claremon is a Principal and Lead PM at Cove Street Capital, a value-based asset management firm managing roughly $700m. Here he shares the bullish case for Lionsgate, a media company!Here you can find the presentation deck he made for the podcast. Otherwise, paste the following URL into your browser: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rVjw8l6Q0-KdLNbfmVf4oT2fY1c5Ib4A/view?usp=sharing  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matt Gertken is a strategist at BCA Research and focuses on the intersection of geopolitics and markets. Here we discuss what could happen between China and Taiwan, how he's thinking through the Chinese regulation of big tech, the debt ceiling issue in the US, and more! An interview with a lot to learn from! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vee started off on the prop desks at JP Morgan Chase, and went on to become a Partner and PM at a $1.2B macro-focused fund, after which he took his career to trade on the desks of large banks like Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. Here, he shares the lessons he learnt along the way as well as how he got to where he is, and the mindset of a successful trader. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris Bloomstran is the founder and CIO of Semper Augustus, a value strategy focused hedge fund based in St Louis. Here, he joins us to discuss the future of value, his energy investments, his advice to younger gens and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I was featured on Simplify's Keeping It Simple series along with Kyla Scanlon as a guest, and had the opportunity to discuss the future of investing, inflation, intergenerational conflicts and more with hosts Mike Green and Harley Bassman! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Scilipoti founded Veritas Investment Research in 2000. He is a Fellow CPA, and a Fellow CA. Anthony also serves as a member of the Ontario Securities Commission's Continuous Disclosure Advisory Committee since 2006. Here he joins me to discuss how he identifies hanky panky in financial statements, what he would change if he was a regulator, what opportunities he sees in today's markets and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andrew (Drew) Dickson is the founder of Albert Bridge Capital, and CIO of their European Alpha strategy. He has over 20 years of industry experience, and previously was a partner in the asset management division of Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP). He has worked as a research assistant for Richard Thaler, as well as studied under Eugene Fama, and here he shares how investment factors matter, what his process looks like and some of his views on behavioural finance. An interview with a lot to learn from! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andy Walker is the General Partner at Augury Research, and here he joins us to talk about what makes SMSI a fantastic investment. He talks about the operating leverage, SMSI's new product, their competitive advantages and far more in this episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Dow is a global macro trader and author of the blog Behavioral Macro. Previously, he worked as a policy economist at the U.S. Treasury and the International Monetary Fund, after which he was a senior Portfolio Manager at Pharo Capital, a $10B fund.Here he talks about why QE isn't money printing, what's driving markets, narratives and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Harley Bassman created, marketed and traded a wide variety of derivative and structured products during his twenty six year career at Merrill Lynch, and focused on pricing and modelling products that had an asymmetric return - what he calls convexity. He is the Managing Partner at Simplify Asset Management, and pens macro commentary at convexitymaven.comHere he shares his views on convexity, options, interest rates, inflation and much much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joseph spent 5 years studying the plumbing of the financial system as a senior trader on the open markets desk. The Desk sits at the center of the dollar system as its ultimate and infinite provider of dollars. It has access to virtually all regulatory and financial data, as well as open lines of communication with all major market participants. - from Joseph's website fedguy.comHere he shares his views on inflation, repo, interest rates, tapering and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Kao has been the manager of Akanthos Capital Management since 2002, and Mike ran an opportunistic, value-driven investment strategy that looked for “fulcrum securities” up and down the capital structure.He has been investing for 30 years and shares his views on the oil supercycle, cap structure arb, trading commodities and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mr. Sheriff presently serves as the Executive Chairman of enCore Energy Corp. An entrepreneur and visionary with over 30 years’ experience in the minerals industry and the securities industry, and has been responsible for capital raises in excess of $300MM. Mr. Sheriff was a pioneer in the uranium renaissance as co-founder and Chairman of Energy Metals Corp., and was responsible for compiling the largest domestic uranium resource base in US history before the company was acquired by Uranium One Corp for $1.8 Billion. Mr. Sheriff also serves as Chairman of Golden Predator Mining Corp, Director of Ely Gold Corp. Director of Exploits Discovery Corp. and Director of Group 11 Technologies Inc, a private company committed to the development and application of environmentally and socially responsible precious metals mineral extraction as an alternate to conventional mining methods. (From enCore's website)Here he discusses his views on the uranium market, and how his firm, enCore is preparing for it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maj is the founder of GeoInvesting and has been a highly successful microcap investor for the last 30 years. Here he discusses the case for being long $PXHI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeff is the Head of Research at Alhambra Investments and here he reiterates that we won't see an elevated level of inflation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kyla is a partner at Be On Deck and is one of the best known content creators in the finance community. Here she shares some economic views as well as her secret to being successful as a content creator. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maj Soueidan returns to Market Champions to talk to us about KTEL - which he is extremely bullish on. This company has a catalyst to triple its revenues, has a contract with one of the largest US States... and nobody is talking about it! Listen here to find why he's so bullish on the company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alfonso is the author of the free macro newsletter The Macro Compass and a well known disinflationist. Here he talks about disinflation, bonds and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brent is the author of Alpha Trader, and The Art of Currency Trading, and has traded at hedge funds in CT, and big banks like HSBC. Here he shares his secrets that've helped make him successful! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Naufal Sanaullah is Macro Strategist at EIA All Weather Alpha Partners, and here he talks his process, his views on where the best investments lie, risk management, position sizing, and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve is the former partner of a Tiger Cub and former Head of Research at a second multi-billion hedge fund. Here he shares various accounting shenanigans that are taking place right now, where he sees opportunity, and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jim is the founder of Falcon Management, and he is one of the greatest macro investors of all time. Here we discuss his research process, his process for trading currencies, risk, position sizing and much more!If you want to contact Jim about anything, feel free to email him at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hari Krishnan is the Head of Volatility Strategies at SCT Capital Management. Here he talks of constructing convex trades, hedging tail risks, shortcomings of the Black Scholes Model, and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesse is the publisher of the Felder Report and was a partner at a multi billion dollar fund. Here he discusses his views on inflation, the dollar, bonds, how he's positioned himself and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chase is a strategist and trader at Pinecone Macro. Here, he discusses the bullish case for Europe, Latin America, energy, and much more!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Harris Kupperman, also known as "Kuppy" is the manager of Praetorian Capital. Here he discusses his views on Oil Tankers, his position in St Joe's, the future of newspapers, his overall investment process and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's episode features Jerry Parker - a CTA and one of the legendary turtle traders. We discuss successful trading, trend following, identifying exits and entries and much more!  Quick apology on the birds in the background! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julian Brigden is the founder of MI2 Partners and is one of the macro insiders at Real Vision. Here he talks about the importance of understanding history, his thesis on the USD and emerging markets, the metals he's watching and much more!Interview with a lot to learn! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode features Kevin Muir, the author of the Macro Tourist newsletter and an investor who's happy to look at any kind of opportunities from crypto currencies to bonds to risk arbitrage!Here we discuss his process, what it was like working on a Canadian proprietary trading desk, and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andreas Steno Larsen is the Global Chief Strategist at Nordea.Here he discusses his views on inflation, Swedish housing markets, his framework for analyzing currencies, and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jordan Wrong is an options trader based in Toronto Canada, who manages a seven figure fund focused on exploiting opportunities in the volatility and options space. He's also the two time winner of Canada's largest options trading competition, along with the founder of Predicting Alpha- a source of excellent options data and volatility trading insights. Here he discusses strategy, how to find trades, how he expresses his view and more!Fantastic interview with a lot to learn! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Grant Williams is the author of Things That Make You Go Hmm as well as the co-founder of Real Vision. He joins me to talk about his thesis on fiat debasement, the gold vs bitcoin debate, his view on the deflationists and their dollar shortage theory, the lessons he's learnt from conversations with investors, and much more!An interview packed with knowledge with a phenomenal investor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christian Siva Jothy is formerly the partner who was in charge of FICC (Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity) trading at Goldman Sachs, and the man who ran SemperMacro, a macro trading hedge fund. He was featured in Steve Drobny's book Inside The House of Money.In this podcast, he discusses what it was like at Goldman, some funny stories, how he reads the tape, generates ideas, manages trades and much more! A fantastic interview! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jason Shapiro was featured in Unknown Market Wizards by Jack Schwager. At a 20% target volatility, his average  annual compounded return is 34.0%, and his maximum drawdown is less than half of his average annual return at 16.1%. He is a contrarian, and shares his thoughts on process, identifying opportunities, risk management, and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Graham Rhodes runs the Long River Investments family office based in Hong Kong. He has compounded at 22% annually over the last 5 years compared to <15% for the S&P 500.Here is a list of relevant links:Annie Duke:https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Bets-Making-Smarter-Decisions/dp/0735216355/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/annie-duke/Longriver:www.longriverinv.com@longriver_hkOn Value Investing, my research process and learning:https://www.longriverinv.com/lettershttps://www.longriverinv.com/blog/the-practice-of-value-investing-by-li-luhttps://www.longriverinv.com/blog/betting-on-the-oddsOn Managing Emotional Risk:https://www.longriverinv.com/blog/wider-definition-of-mosOn HDFC Bank:https://www.longriverinv.com/blog/hdfc-bank-part-i-sleeping-well-at-nighthttps://www.longriverinv.com/blog/hdfc-bank-part-ii-dreaming-of-the-futureOn games in Asia:https://www.longriverinv.com/blog/netease-the-right-stuffhttps://www.longriverinv.com/blog/tencents-gaming-businessOn continuous compound economic growth:https://www.longriverinv.com/blog/li-lus-2015-speech-at-peking-uhttps://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5ef3c7300432b40ed865991a/5ef3c7300432b403eb659976_Li%20Lu%20on%20Discussion%20of%20Modernization%202016%20Final.pdf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Green is a portfolio manager at Logica Funds. He is very well known for his work on the impact of passive flows into ETFs on investing. Here we discuss having hedges for tail risks, the impact of flows into ETFs, Bitcoin and the overall macro/geopolitical picture.An absolutely fascinating episode from which we can all learn from! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marc Cohodes is a legend in the short selling world. In this podcast, we discuss many things including- Identifying great short ideas, MiMedx, Overstock, Camping World and much more! A lot of awesome content packed into this one podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeff Snider is the Global Head of Research at Alhambra Investments, and well known for his disinflationary views and his Eurodollar University video. Here he talks about why yields' move higher isn't inflationary, why things are still not inflationary at all, and much more.Fantastic interview with a lot of important takeaways. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jim O'Shaughnessy is the founder of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, a quantitative asset manager. Here he talks about his research process, mental models, and much more. An interview with a lot to learn! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lily Francus is the inventor of the NOPE indicator and is an independent quantitative options trader and researcher. On this episode she shares her journey to using NOPE, some tips on trading options and her thoughts and views on the world of quantitative finance! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brandon is the value investor at Macro-Ops, and tries to identify businesses with a strong competitive advantage and a margin of safety. He is also the host of the Value Hive podcast, and you can find him on Twitter @marketplunger1!Make sure to check out this AWESOME episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.