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The Intrinsic Value Podcast - The Investor’s Podcast Network

MI337: The Power of Alignment: Strategies From A Fund Manager w/ Jeremy Kokemor

The Intrinsic Value Podcast - The Investor’s Podcast Network

The Investor's Podcast Network

Education, Investing, Business

4.6592 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Kyle Grieve chats with Jeremy Kokemor about why Jeremy has utilized Buffett’s 0/6/25 model and why he thinks it’s so powerful, why value, growth and quality are all important for successful investing, why price isn’t the only way to get a margin of safety, why investors should look at reinvestment rates to help identify wonderful investments, why you should only invest in countries that have shareholder friendly regulations, how many investments per year concentrated investors need to be successful, and a whole lot more! IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN 00:00 - Intro 03:09 - Why the 0/6/25 model is so powerful and how it aligns Jeremy with his partners. 03:09 - Other methods that Jeremy has used to create alignment with his partners. 15:09 - How a high-quality, low-debt business can add to their margin of safety outside of price. 17:32 - Why Jeremy views the combination of value, growth, and quality as being important for his investing process. 19:17 - The similarities and differences between O'Reilly Auto Parts and NVR in terms of capital allocation. 24:14 - How Jeremy keeps costs down to help ensure his business model is optimized. 28:33 - Why Jeremy runs a concentrated portfolio. 34:27 - The importance of reinvestment into wonderful businesses and value creation. 40:08 - Why we should evaluate a business based on its ability to grow without reinvestment. 40:08 - The strengths of using multiple evaluation methods to help you understand the value of a business. And much, much more! *Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Kyle and the other community members. Read Jeremy’s shareholder letters here. Check out the books mentioned in the podcast here. NEW TO THE SHOW? Follow our official social media accounts: X (Twitter) | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok. Check out our Millennial Investing Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try Kyle's favorite tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: Fiscal.AI Connect with Kyle: Twitter | LinkedIn | Website Connect with Jeremy: LinkedIn | Website | Twitter Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm

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0:00.0

You're listening to TIP.

0:02.4

I worked at Tiro Price out of Harvard Business School, and Tiro is a fantastic firm.

0:09.7

There, I was only covering kind of a few industries, so I wasn't a generalist like I am today.

0:16.7

And I was probably covering 30 to 40 companies in those industries where I was kind of tasked

0:22.4

with kind of being the expert on these companies.

0:26.4

Contrast that with what I was doing in my personal account, which at any period of time,

0:32.5

I probably had 10 or 12 investments that I thought were really going to be exceptional. And that always felt

0:40.8

fine. And I would say, look, with a lot of investing, there are many ways to make money. There

0:47.5

is no kind of one right answer. But I think a lot of investing is kind of a personal journey to figure out,

0:56.8

you know, what makes the most sense for each of us.

1:03.6

In today's episode, I chat with Jeremy Kokomore, the founder of Rite Tail Capital.

1:08.2

Since its inception in May of 2022, Rightail's net performance is 22.5%

1:13.2

for performance fee investors, 25.5% for management fee investors, and 21.7% for the S&P 500.

1:20.6

Jeremy Kokomore is an investor that I find very interesting because he does many things different

1:25.3

than the industry. For one thing, he uses Buffett's 0625 model, which is incredibly rare.

1:31.3

He has put a lot of time and effort into aligning himself with his partners as much as he possibly can.

1:36.3

In this conversation, he'll detail many of the ideas that he's implemented in his fund to help ensure that he has skin in the game.

1:42.3

Additionally, he's not a closet indexer,

1:45.1

holding a concentrated portfolio of very high-quality businesses. We discussed a lot of interesting

1:50.0

tidbits on investing, such as why value, growth, and quality are all important for successful

1:54.7

investing, why price isn't the only way to get a margin of safety, why investors should look at

1:59.8

reinvestment rates to help identify

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