Rather than just India, let us look at global trends.
3-4 things stand out
ageing world population- this is a permanent trend with no return path. This will lead global pharma and med sector to have the longest runway compared to any other sector. Pharma I believe is the sector to be in for decades and not years
Moving of Chinese economy from low end manufacturing to high end- this will push textiles and chemical business to India. These 2 sectors look very good from a 10 year point of view
Increase in GDP leading to increase in disposable income- sadly I don’t find much of companies in listed space here. People spend money on iPhones, foreign trips, electronics, furniture, flats. I don’t find many companies in listed space that can benefit from this one. Patanjali is one company but is unlisted.
Before we move on to steering the discussion more purposefully into strong visibility candidates, I realise we need to provide some pointers for some persistent Portfolio related questions.
1.Live Portfolio? Who’s
As mentioned before this is not my (or any VP core team member portfolio) but a portfolio from a VP follower-fanatic from 2013 who was kind enough to allow us to put it up for discussion/illustration. In the bargain, he felt all of us may be able to use it/benefit from a constructive re-structuring exercise (now that the VP Public Portfolio is no longer kept updated).
2.Shilpa Allocation. Why so high?
Ha Ha…beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, so I cannot vouch for his allocation/style.
I can say for myself though that I had even higher allocation 25%+ to start with. I thought a) the business model was unique (somewhat like PI, where you invest upfront to put up a huge distance with nearest competition) b) I couldn’t find a fiscally more prudent management (invest heavily in new revenue stream when you are sure even if no revenue comes onstream for 2 years from this, the existing streams are growing enough to provide the 15%+ growths) c) Very long-term milestone setting - visualisation & planning from 10 years before d) huge intellectual capital. And finally @15x trailing perception-performance gap/mispricing was huge.
Yes if you appreciate Shilpa Business model, you have to wait for the (disproportionate) rewards. They don’t come linearly, much like PI Industries if you will.
That was then, subsequently more capital has come into the portfolio, some other candidates have done exceedingly well too, Allocation at Market value now is around 18-19%. Given the delay/slippage on USFDA approval for formulations facility, and the attendant Risks, I am in the process of re-looking at this critically, might bring allocations down to 15% or slightly less.
3.Capital Allocation? How should one go about it?
There is a whole thread on Capital allocation, where Mr D has laid it out very simply, very beautifully. If someone has not read it, I encourage you to drop everything else and first try grasping that central concept.
To answer the more pointed question on transcribing Conviction to an allocation number - what I can say is High Conviction is not developed on day one - or say when we invest after doing all the hard work we can - at that time we invest at best on a well-tested hypothesis. In my case I play concentrated, so I do not invest less than 10%. And if I cant invest 10%, then why bother?
In my case I have seen Conviction gets built up every year - as we see the businesses performing, and the Management walking the Talk. In all the businesses whether it was Astral, Mayur, Ajanta, Pi, Shilpa, Alembic, Avanti - it was built up with every year of performance, and we could keep allocating more especially till 2013 - till when valuations had always remained reasonable.
All said and done, whatever we do, we must be able to sleep well.
One has to understand oneself first - our own strengths/weaknesses, risk-tolerance, etc. If we are to allocate anything north of 10% ability to do real hard work in knowing everything that can be known about the business - is a must. It’s very risky playing concentrated if we can’t work very very hard to develop independent conviction (or don’t have the time) and can’t be comfortable taking calculated (may be considered aggressive) risks.
4.Restructuring. Every 2-3 years why? Then how is it a Long-Term Portfolio?
Hell No. Its not about restructuring every 2-3 years.
Its all about identifying long-term candidates. That’s how we are still holding onto an Ajanta Pharma, PI Industries, Shilpa Medicare, Avanti Feeds, Alembic unchanged.
But its also about looking critically at the Portfolio every year/6 months, do the existing candidates qualify to stay on for the next 2-3 years? Do they show strong 25% Cagr visibilty ofr next 2-3 years? Have valuations gone very rich? Have the Business Quality/Management Quality and/or our understanding of the same changed? Thats why we have pared Astral, Mayur and Polymed Holdings, and exited Atul Auto, and Kaveri Seeds.
Are there new better candidates with stronger visibility and better valuations?? Now that valuations are lower, possibly there are many. That is the main agenda of this thread. Hope to steer the discussion towards that soon.
Disc: The above are illustrative answers to clarify often asked questions on the thread. These are not to be treated in any way as investment recommendations/advise.
As I have observed in past few years, sectorial bull runs that are structural in nature start in sectors where there are many small companies(in terms of market cap) and by some circumstances there is huge tailwind (the lollapaluza effect).
2000s was the case for IT sector, there were many players and a huge tailwind.
2008 till now is about pharma where the US generic opportunity created many winners in the pharma sector.
Also the sector should be meaningful enough that the topline and bottomline effects the overall economy.
I feel there are many listed companies in the NBFC space catering to both rural india and urban india.
Apart from HDFC, I don’t see any BIG GIANT company here. The total market cap of the NBFC sector is too low compared to the GDP.
There is also huge tailwind in consumer credit. Growth in credit for 2 wheelers, 4 wheelers, housing, education, consumer durables is visible. Plus each NBFC is catering to different sets of consumers. They have unique business models…some are doing urban, some are rural, some are saleried, non saleried…all variants are available.
Also if we look at the price action to name a few Bajaj Finance, Gruh, Repco, etc are not at 52 wk lows…indicating that there is some smart money moving here.
I fell in the last 15 years we have created many GIANTS in various sectors:
IT
Infy
TCS
Wipro
HCL
FMCG
ITC
HUL
Asian Paints
Pharma
SUN
DR Reddy
Lupin
2 Wheeler
Bajaj Auto
Hero
4 Wheeler
Maruti
When I look at the NBFC space all I can find is HDFC.
These are my personal views and I do believe that the NBFC space will produce some NIFTY or SENSEX candidates in next few years.
I agree partially in that there will be a leadership change but not necessarily from Pharma per se. Within Pharma sector itself there would most likely be a churn and new set of leaders may emerge. Recent events such as FDA Warning Letters/Import Bans, Price-gouging being hotly debated among US Presidential candidates will continue to contribute to this churn. But these headwinds can be an opportunity for the second-rung midcap pharma such as Cadila/Biocon(with Biosimilar Plays), Aurobindo/Lupin (Complex Generics) to throw themselves into the gauntlet and take the leadership mantle.
With respect to the existing portfolio picks, i will restrict myself to Pharma which i can say with fair confidence is my Circle of competence
Ajanta Pharma:
There are no questions about the management pedigree, execution capability and integrity. But what i fear is they have left it too late to join the US Bandwagon. They have a very small pipeline with no indication of complex generics amongst it. They do have the rep of bringing first-time launches into the Indian/African markets, but they are in “me-too” segments. Moreover, there is no visibility from DMF filings abt potential ANDA’s. If we take Aripiprazole, there are 49 patent litigations (of which 7 belonging to the FTF exclusivity group) in US Courts, with Ajanta is among those awaiting closure.
So even if Ajanta gets the eventual approval, the market is essentially commoditized to have any meaningful impact on revenues. So unless, the ANDA is Para-IV or a complex generic with limited competition, one cannot expect windfall gains.
Next 2-3 yrs, Ajanta with small base effect can have growth in earnings. But by FY18 if we do not start seeing complex generics filings, then it starts getting tough.
My inference is that, apart from Para IV filings differentiation comes from the below possible pathways:
1 Complex Generics - Peptides, Copaxone, NBCD.
2 NDDS - Drug Delivery mechanisms like nasal, patches etc.
3 Biosimilars
4 Orphan Drugs - This satisfies mgmt criteria to cater to unmet needs
With the above aspect, Alembic looks better placed than Ajanta with their recent ramp-up in R&D by setting up dedicated centre, successful approval and launch of gPristiq thru 505(b)(2) pathway, latest onco DMF Filing.
Shilpa still looks good as immunotherapy for cancer is still evolving and small-molecule drugs will continue to remain in focus atleast till FY20, as NDA’s use them as part of combination drugs with other small molecule API or more-complex biologics.
Disc: Had sold off Alembic in Mar-Jul 2015 (felt valuation was very expensive) and Ajanta in recent correction to shift to Torrent and further add Shilpa. Would have loved to add back Alembic in today’s wild correction at 515 but lack of fresh funds leave me rueful but not sad.
Coming back to topic, with respect to future opportunities of long-term bets (FY20 and beyond) one needs to look at the usual suspects which are prone to disruptive technologies/data-deluge and more importantly which are consumer-centric - Financials -
Digital banking - Companies which build scalable digital platforms stand a great chance to capitalize and even established IT service cos can cash in as there is the carrot of on-tap licencing of payment banks in future. After all there is only so much one can squeeze from the automation and IoT if one cannot monetize and make a product out off it.
Blockchain which RBI is actively studying as a possible technology to minimize settlement timelines. Imagine if one can do away with T+2 settlement
Education - Excellent thread by @rohitbalakrish_ on MT Educare will provide all the info.
Healthcare -
I saw the below 2 tweets which resonated with my focus on CRO’s and Life-science tech companies.
Unless pharma becomes a data-analytics company in the business of making medicines, it can never truly be patient-centric. Data, not drugs.
With lot of focus on Pharmacovigilance, Personalized Medicine, etc… there is clear need for technology to remove inefficiencies to provide best-in-class patient care.
Emerging therapies based on Gene-editing such as CRISPR, or Immuno-therapy require genome sequencing to select the best-fit drug (most of the case a biologic) among the possible candidates, which has the best chance to activate the T-cells with the maximum effect, as the same drug may have different impact depending on the patient’s immune system.
There is a lack of EHR/EMR (Electronic Patient Records) awareness among health-care providers in India generally. It is gaining traction among major hospitals with companies such as Ohum Healthcare, but doctor awareness continues to be a hindrance as they are used to writing the notes on paper files.
But in the long-term, as this gains traction, it has lot of positive downstream effects if one incorporates IoT (wearables and biosensors). It would help CRO’s to recruit more easily and effectively and provide real-time post market surveillance data as part of Pharmacovigilance requirements.
All the above views are far-sighted, and with the recent pace of innovation it may be sooner than we think. One just needs to look out for the hidden signs.
@Donald Thank you very much for your write-ups in this forum. I always think how someone can write so nicely.
I am beginner. Please bear me. Maintaining a concentrated portfolio is a very hard job. We need to work harder for that. One has to build the conviction over the time to make the portfolio concentrated. I have a question.
When one should exit in a concentrated portfolio. I hope the decision should be quicker than the diversified portfolio. Let’s have a example of Kitex or Kaveri.
For any business we need to believe the management guidelines forward and invest expecting the forward earnings multiples. For Kitex as per the management they will meet the guideline of sales/profit. Then over the time how one can stand over the negative energies and the dent in the share prices over the year.
So as kaveri. The prices fall from the top and by the time it post biggest quarter in less sales/profit, the share price is dented to maximum possible. So that point is also looks attractive if one going to invest freshly.
So I need a generic reply that when one should take a decision of exit or continue invested. If you are not comfortable with above examples you can take any other stock and price points for the discussion.
Disc : Any stocks discussed in this post should not be treated as a investment advice.
@soodhakar Maintaining a Concentrated Portfolio in the face of Adverse Headwinds:
1.The assumption is of course that one has done adequate homework, and is on top of the business situation/competitive position/sustainability/predictability (BQ). Also the assumption is that one has observed Management walking the talk for a couple of years at least, and has slotted the Management (MQ)
Corollary: It pays to do all the work early - before there is consensus on the street - while the story is still misunderstood - there lies the real Alpha. Concentrated portfolio is not for passive investors who can’t/don’t have the time/effort to build their own independent conviction in the business. Borrowed conviction down the line (from posts of the best of experts/hard workers) might be setting yourself up for failure …sooner than later; especially if you are one who joined the bandwagon after there is consensus on the streets.
2.Having done all that work/assessment, you may still be wrong a) business situation/environment may change drastically making it difficult for the business to recover previous heights b) Management actions may subsequently show them up to be strategically deficient (even if still operationally street-smart/excellent) c) Your own refinement in assessing BQ/MQ needs bolstering
3.Maintaining the discipline to discriminate between required “Laziness”/Complacency
You speak to anyone who intrinsically (suited) likes to play “Concentrated”, you will invariably find them admitting to a “Lazy” approach. It is essential to have done that degree of homework and hence build in the initial Conviction, to give the business and Management a longer rope (atleast 2-3 years) to play out that Conviction. The laziness is essential to be able to stay away from NOISE. That’s a very important behavioural trait needed to stay put in a business over 5 years or more (on top of all the hard work/conviction you may have built up - to be able to Ignore the Ignorables, as Hitesh would put it).
That rare behavioural strength can also be your Enemy. My experience says, the right mix of laziness/vigilance & discrimination is all there in those first 2-3 years of investment in a prospect, where you are alert. The challenge comes in the subsequent 2-3 years, actually. By God’s grace if your story does play out and you make a few multiples in that investment meanwhile, you run the REAL risk of COMPLACENCY setting in, falling in love with your business.
It was a mix of 2 & 3 for me in Kaveri case. BQ/MQ proper assessment/refinement was lacking as well as Complacency (as I had mentioned in Kaveri thread). One cannot learn everything through vicarious experiences (reading up, others experiences) only, you gotta pay some tuition fees too. I am glad I paid some after almost 4 years of fairy-tale existence. {Post the BQ/MQ re-assessment on sustainability/predictability of a business that is prone to change every season - and hence you have to be on top every 6 months - many started equating Kaveri Seeds & Avanti Feeds with the same brush - which isn’t comparing apples to apples. I hope to make that case in the Kaveri thread sometime soon}
My experience also shows Risk/Reward are proportionate in this game. If you like to play concentrated, then surely, you must also have the stomach to digest the possibility of 2 out of 10 bets going wrong - despite your best efforts (to the best of your current abilities). But the 8 bets that go well make sure the rewards are still disproportionate, with caveats 1, 2 & 3 in that order.
Kitex is still work in progress for me. I believe the business has lot of potential. I want to see how the US forays play out before sitting on judgement - I need to give the business that much long rope to play out, despite many valid objections/observations on Management operating style/stubborn convictions. But that’s my reading, and I can be totally wrong.
UNDERPAYING is key to investment success. We need to be sure we have adequate Margin of Safety. End of the day, if you are uncomfortable in any story, and having trouble sleeping, you better take the first option out. You need to give some longer rope to a concentrated business no doubt, but if you know you were wrong - your assessment of the business/valuation & margin of safety, and the visibility for next 2-3 years is clouded, you need to be decisive and cut your losses, to sleep well. Concentrated players usually sleep well
Disc: These are illustrative answers. Not to be treated as Investment advise.
Thanks to recommendation by @anil1820 - Free Capital by Guy Thomas is another excellent book.
It is about 12 full-time investors/traders and their investing philosophies while they are classified as geographers (macro), surveyors (micro), activists and eclectics. Most of them explain how they went about building up their stock rationale with their actual investments.
@soodhakar
True…Concentrated portfolio players sleep well as they usually put their bets on very few high conviction ideas and so there are limited number of variables to track of limited number of portfolio constituents…but they need to work really extra hard to keep tight check on self projected progress of portfolio constituents…as per my experience following factors are critical in relation to a concentrated portfolio approach :
Entry point valuation :
Although this aspect is equally important in any investment decision whether it’s a diversified or concentrated portfolio approach, but, it’s of prime importance in case of concentrated portfolio. Entry at an early stage of a wealth creation cycle when all triggers have not started playing out is the most desirable entry point and the maximum risk is when we are past half way of the wealth creation cycle. It is usually this point post which either a company becomes a perceived blue chip company or looses its momentum. By keeping our entry point up to the halfway of wealth creation cycle of a stock, we can minimise capital losses significantly in case of a failure which is of prime importance in a concentrated approach.
My entry points in Riddhi Siddhi Gluco and Jubilant Industries at an early stage helped me exit them at negligible loss whereas my entry point before halfway in MPS helped me exit at no capital loss. Each company formed average 25 % of my portfolio at the time of my decision to exit.
2. Keep your own milestone-list ready with the time period and grace period.
This is the second most important aspect…when one makes an investment decision, he has to keep a list of triggers/milestones he expects his invested company to achieve and by what timeframe. In addition, he has to beforehand determine the grace period he would give in case such events don’t occur in expected timeframe. By strictly following this, he can often avoid capital destruction. However, concentrated portfolio investors (including me ️) are always seen complacent in adhering to such determined timelines. This is because we have put our money on very high conviction ideas by doing lot of homework and when things don’t turn out as anticipated we prefer to give more time often even beyond grace period unless it’s an all and all mess. If I would have personally followed this approach strictly, I would have exited my failures with significant capital appreciation.
3.Management Quality and Approach :
In a concentrated portfolio never bet on a management which is even slightly shady or pare down your allocation as soon as you find first signs of disconnect or management not walking the talk. Investing in a ‘certain’ environment even at a higher entry point is far better than remaining invested significantly in an ‘uncertain’ environment.
4.Keep doing lot of work on your invested ideas.
Your work doesn’t finish by just putting a lot of effort for building conviction and investing in your conviction…the work actually increases post investment. One needs to keep a tight check on the macros as well as micros, keep checking how peers in the segment are performing, if any particular milestone is not getting achieved then go into detail asto what is the reason, etc. You rarely get the warning signs of a failure from the management. Managements, because of their many constraints, always play down many things but you need to pick them up from your efforts.
5.Don’t let the quantum of information go over your head.
A lot of work and information gathering carries a risk to distract you from your own conviction. One has to learn the right use of information by being able to see the thin line between an imminent failure or just lengthening of the story’s play out period. In case information is not interpreted in right way and with cool mind, one risks the possibility of loosing a winner.
6.Ride your real winners.
Concentrated portfolio investors often underestimate the wealth creating potential of their winners because of their lower entry point and amount of capital appreciation that they are sitting on. One has to ride their winners fully as real winners are not many relative to half winners and failures.
7.Rationalise your expectations as your absolute portfolio value gets bigger.
As you win and attain success via concentrated portfolio approach, your portfolio value will naturally get bigger. After many successes too, a concentrated portfolio investor will never loose that approach, but, with a bigger quantum, highly concentrated portfolio approach is very risky. Hence, even within concentrated portfolio, one needs to rationalise his return expectations at one particular point of time by betting on potential only 1x time compounder in addition to 3x, 4x compunders.
Rgds.
Discl. - This is not an investment advice and is part of a general discussion.
As growth in a stock market would be directly linked with economy doing well, I believe the factors that would contribute to the economy growth would equally well contribute to the stock markets.
I believe urbanization will be one of the major growth areas if economy grows. As the per capita income grows there will be people moving to bigger and bigger cities with reasons like education, job, higher standards of living. One reason the urbanization wouldn’t grow as expected would be the development of the rural areas.
In any case, there ought to be a growth in people living higher standards of life and they are going to consume more water, food, houses, electricity, medicines, bank accounts, etc…
That said, my biggest bet for the next bull phase of economy (I am implying that it would in turn bring growth in stock market, the sequence my vary) would be,
Banks - I would prefer public banks over private as the growth of public banks is inevitable (even if there are challenges) if economy needs to grow at decent rate.
FMCG Companies
Infrastructure / Construction Raw Material Companies
Pharmaceutical companies
In general I believe the fortune is surely in serving the people at the bottom of the pyramid and any sectors that has highest reach in affecting rural life will be winners.
thats a very good post mahesh.
could you quantify big portfolio?. i know its relative. but generally speaking what is considered a big portfolio (for concentrated portfolio risk)?
Pasting very nice stuff I read somewhere which is relevant before we think of cyclicals, capital goods, etc
I’ve worked for two extremely successful investors who were experts in cyclical, commodity-dependent, capital intensive industries – real estate and mining – and learned that almost all of the real money made in those areas is made only by extremely patient investors who invest once every ten or twenty years, liquidate their holdings once a decade and spend long, long periods of time in cash.
The role of financial markets is to take money away from mediocre and under performing companies and put it in stable, growing, high return on capital companies. Money has an almost metaphysical attraction to places where it is put to careful, good use. You can fight that trend, and invest in companies, for instance that are deeply undervalued and mismanaged – and some people are successful investing in the dregs – but very few over the long term. To use a whitewater kayaking analogy, freshwater seeks salt water, and you can fight that if you want, but paddling upstream eventually is likely to become highly problematic.
The approach that’s worked best in my experience is investing in high return on capital, low debt, growing companies that have the ability to reinvest earnings in the business and generate high returns on those reinvested earnings. The power of compound interest is so profound (mind-boggling really) that over time, returns in investments in those companies are enormous. The trick is finding companies that are compound interest machines.
One of those investors, Pat Sheridan, an owner of mines all over the world, once said to me that the classic business mistake was to be fully invested at the top of the market. The objective, he said, was to be liquid at the bottom because business cycles are primarily caused by the creation and destruction of debt. Those are functions of greed and fear, in other words of emotions. He built inventory (by buying mines) during times of low demand, and sold them during times of high demand, including one for $10 million in 2011. Managing cash is crucial to his strategy, he told me.
HI All,
Is it a good idea to look at it in absolute return terms instead of CAGR?. Because once the portfolio size becomes large, then even a 10-12% return can add good incremental value to the portfolio. So an investor is better off sticking to the gsk consumers, pidilites of the world. Of course, he can still continue with the existing winners like bajaj finance, page, ajanta etc. but any incremental addition will go to such names. one thing that worries me is that, even after this correction, all the high quality growers are still overvalued or priced for perfection.
please share your views. thanks
Good vision. I suggest consider Carbon Fibre technology (in addition to 3D Printing that you have already considered. In India, I could identify only one (failed) venture called Kemrock. Globally, this is a promising high tech material tougher than metals. Even Boeing of the world use it.
Now that we have discussed the sectors to a good extent, we should start focussing on individual companies and compare them against the ones in model portfolio.
I believe the hard work has to start now with BQs/MQs
@Donald, Do you think preparing BQ/MQs (or collating, if one already available) for the candidates in model portfolio would be a good starting point ?. And then prepare similar reports for new candidates which will aid in finding the right mix.
Agenda 2: Identifying (Long Term) Businesses with Strong visibility for next 2-3 Years
VP started with the ethos of “Separating the Wheat from the Chaff”. We are perennially on that quest of finding which is a superior business, and why. It’s not necessary to investment in everything. It pays to be choosy. The Guru asks us to be very very choosy - 20 strikes in a lifetime!! The Art of Valuation thread has tried to capture most of our learnings of last 5 years of that quest.
By the time we had refined our BQ/MQ Templates in mid 2015, and started presenting/interacting at Investment academies like FLAME, It suddenly dawned on me one day that Guru Buffet has already answered the Holy grail of Investing …in a very simple easily understandable single para…when asked …What is the Ideal Business to Invest in?.
He has put it thus The ideal business to invest in is one - where we can continue to invest large sums of capital - at high rates of return - for a long period of time.
If we ponder over this a bit, this sentence encapsulates everything that we should be after
Large sums of Capital - implies Opportunity size is big, Runway is long, industry and businesses have lot of legroom to grow for a number of years; only then can you continue to invest in GROWTH for a long period of time
High Rates of Return - implies both Business Quality and Management Quality without those crucial ingredients, High Returns cannot continue for a long period of time
Long period of Time - implies the most crucial prongs of Sustainability, Predictability, and Longevity of the business
Today, I am completely convinced - No matter how many books you read, how many gurus you follow, and how many seniors you interact with, no matter how many years of investing acumen you bring to the table - IN THE END, this is the crux one will inevitably keep coming back to, if one is put on the spot and asked to summarise one’s 10/20+ years of Investment Learning.
One then can’t help draw ATTENTION back to the holy grail EPA = Economic Profits = Invested Capital x (RoCE - Cost of Capital)
We should always be conscious of the ability of a businesses to generate higher Economic Profits for a number of years driven both by growth in Invested Capital and High RoCE
Once we internalise this single Investment Tenet for what (I think) it is, it is time to start applying it sincerely, honestly in our quest for the best of investment prospects that can meet these simple requirements ha ha !
That was by way of context setting - for all of us to ponder on a bit, before springing to action
Next Action Points: Week of 8-13 Feb
Create a simple concise Template - to capture growth planks, justifications for strong visibility for next 2-3 years, for a quality business with long runway in front, incl. basic objection handling - DF
Exemplify that with a couple of my best current convictions - DF
Week of 15-20 Feb
3. Get many other prolific contributors/passionate learners to fill up the template for Top 2 current convictions from their side
Week of 22-26 Feb
4. Start a similar exercise for Opportunistic bets (businesses in transition) which we feel are showing very good promise, and have teh foundation/potential to move into medium to long-term bets
5. Start the refinement process for zeroing down
Let’s not worry about extensive BQ/MQ Templates for the time being. I am sure once we have a distilled list, there will be enough passionate hands raised to create the BQ/MQ sheets to separate the wheat from the chaff, again.
Let’s also not be picky about giving our best ideas (we think) away.
If idea has merit by sharing/defending, our own conviction is bound to grow from objections handled, arguments refined. Most in market are interested anyways in Momentum, very few takers for Long Term bets. We will probably see that the best high conviction ideas that emerge, mostly are from the KNOWN universe.
Do you think it will be a useful exercise for all?
