TIP585: Concentrated Value Investing w/ Shree Viswanathan

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Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Clay Finck is joined by Shree Viswanathan to discuss his concentrated, patient, and global approach to investing. They touch on many of the key aspects to successful long-term investing as well as one of Shree’s portfolio holdings, Dino Polska, which reminds him of Walmart in their early days. Shree Viswanathan is the founder and portfolio manager of SVN Capital. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro. 02:17 - The story of his father earning 40x on an investment despite never garnering an interest in the subject. 08:54 - Spiritual and life lessons that Shree has learned over the years. 14:52 - The most important aspects to understand investing internationally. 20:52 - What makes India an attractive hunting ground for long-term investors. 33:10 - Why we should remain fully invested in uncertain times. 38:57- How investors can minimize the impact of ego hurting their performance. 41:30 - The benefits Shree has seen from a daily meditation practice. 46:31 - What led him to run a concentrated portfolio of only 9 holdings. 53:16 - Why Dino Polska out of Poland reminds Shree of Walmart in their early days. 56:43 - How Shree thinks about inflation and currency risk investing internationally. 01:11:10 - How Shree thinks about the valuation of Dino Polska. Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Check out our newly released TIP Mastermind Community. Shree’s fund: SVN Capital. Compensation by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Wealth by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Money Game by Adam Smith. A Search in Secret India by Andrew Brunton. The Sketchbook of Wisdom by Vishal Khandelwal. Related episode: Listen to WSB569: An Investor’s Guide to Clear Thinking w/ Chris Mayer or watch the video. Related episode: Listen to WSB543: 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-1 w/ Chris Mayer or watch the video. Follow Shree on Twitter. Follow Clay on Twitter. NEW TO THE SHOW? Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. 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0:00.0	You're listening to TIP.
0:03.2	On today's episode, I'm joined by Sri Viswanathan.
0:06.5	Sri is the founder and portfolio manager of SVN Capital, a long-term, concentrated, patient
0:12.5	and global fund invested in public equities.
0:15.4	During this chat, we cover the story of his father earning 40x on an investment despite
0:20.0	never garnering an interest in the subject.
0:22.8	The most important aspects to investing internationally, why we should remain fully invested in uncertain
0:28.4	times.
0:29.4	Some investors can minimize the impact of EO on their performance, what led Sri to
0:34.0	running a concentrated portfolio of only 9 holdings?
0:38.0	How Sri thinks about inflation and currency risk investing internationally, why Dino Polska
0:43.1	out of Poland reminds Sri of Walmart in their early days and much more.
0:47.9	I really enjoyed having the chance to chat with Sri as well as learn about some of his
0:52.2	portfolio holdings.
0:53.8	Just for full disclosure, I did purchase shares of Dino Polska in recent months with the
0:58.1	recent price drop the shares have had, Kyle Greve, the host of our millennial investing
1:02.3	show, and myself will be doing a more comprehensive deep dive on the company on next week's episode
1:07.6	that will be released on November 9th.
1:10.0	So be sure to tune into that episode if you're interested in learning more about Dino Polska.
1:15.0	With that, here is my chat with Sri Viswanathan.
1:18.9	You are listening to the Investors Podcast, where we study the financial markets and read
1:27.0	the books that influence self-made billionaires the most.
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