Interview with The Disciplined Investor Podcast

Warren Buffett calls Berkshire Hathaway his Sistine Chapel. This analogy haunted me for years until I realized we are building the exact same thing at IMA. It took me a decade to put into words, but I finally narrowed our firm’s entire reason for existence down to just two words. They sound simple, but living up to them is the hardest thing we’ve ever done.

As an investor, being intentional about identifying assumptions is extremely important. When you're mindless, you accept things as they are without realizing you're walking on thin ice while everyone else thinks it's solid ground.

Today I am a different (hopefully better) investor than I was five, ten, twenty years ago; as I look at the biggest changes, it is my focus on quality investing and being extremely selective and uncompromising when it comes to quality.

Today we'll delve into my research process, how I assess country risk for investments and why some investors avoid technology stocks