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Animal Spirits Podcast

Talk Your Book: Finding Growth Stocks Around the Globe

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On today's Talk Your Book we spoke with Rob Forker of Polen Capital about investing in international small cap growth companies. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today's animal spirits talk your book is brought to you by Poland Capital.

0:03.5

Go to PolandCapital.com to learn more about their international small growth fund that we're

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going to talk about in today's show. Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets,

0:12.9

life, and investing. Join Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're

0:17.9

reading, writing, and watching. Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson work for RIT Holt's wealth

0:23.6

management. All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben or any podcast guests are solely their

0:28.0

own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of RIT Holt's wealth management. This podcast

0:32.3

is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for investment decisions.

0:36.4

Clients of RIT Holt's wealth management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in

0:40.4

this podcast. Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben. One of the themes we've talked about

0:46.0

a little bit over the years, for one of the reasons we're not worried about all the money moving

0:49.8

into index funds is because the majority of the money that's going into index funds is probably

0:53.6

coming out of closet index funds that were active. They chart to hire fee. They basically track

0:58.8

the index. Now they're just doing so in a more tax-efficient, lower cost way. I think

1:04.7

what we're going to see more and more of going forward is a barbell in the fund world where we have

1:09.2

index funds on one side, index funds in ETFs, really low fee beta in the future is probably going

1:14.0

to be free or you're going to get paid for it. On the other side, we have niche funds in highly

1:19.5

concentrated funds that hold fewer stocks. That's where we're headed. If you're in the middle,

1:24.2

you're out of luck. If you're on one of the ends of the barbell, you're probably going to do

1:27.2

just fine. It's the way it should be. Yes. So looking at polling capitals, small-cap growth fund,

1:33.9

an international growth fund, which we're going to talk about in the show, I haven't heard of

1:37.0

a single top 10 holding. No. Well, there's probably few small caps internationally that you know of

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