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Still, we believe that attractive opportunities for fundamental, bottom-up investing endure in China S and Asia’s other emerging markets, where valuations are more attractive than for equities in the developed world like the U.S. 1, 2008, until Dec. By Stephen Shutz, CFA, Tax-Exempt PortfolioManager. Long-Term Winners.
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And so in the 1990s, I developed the, the late 1980s, early 1990s, I developed a skillset around valuation, in particular discounted cash flow or residual income type models, along with a couple of peers out of the consulting industry. I’m gonna hold it in my portfolio. It pushes valuations higher over time.
And so to your point, I was a public portfoliomanager, started as a tech analyst and made my way to associate portfoliomanager and then began managing public portfolios in 1996. Where, 00:06:25 [Speaker Changed] Where were you managing those for in 96? The more private side of the street?
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Not, not terribly busy in 2007 to be honest, but in 2008, 2009, 10, it was by far the busiest time in my career in investing. And if they don’t, we’re happy to own them at the valuation that we are creating that company act. Tell us about what’s going on today that makes it so interesting.
Big Balance Sheet By way of background, the Fed’s balance sheet has roughly quintupled since the financial crisis of 2008. We also believe that it’s important to stay within the discipline of a particular portfolio strategy, such as intermediate duration, “core,” certain quality standards and so forth.
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We do discretionary macro trading, which is typically a portfoliomanager — and we have some number of portfoliomanagers, 15 or 18 different portfoliomanagers that independently manage a book of, you know, risk assets. And last market question, so we’ve seen equity valuations come down.
So, first, I found the book to be quite fascinating, very in depth and you managed to take some of the more technical arcana and make it very understandable. You began as a central bank portfoliomanager in Finland. So, that relationship actually already started when I was a portfoliomanager, right? ILMANEN: Yes.
It’s just a fascinating conversation about looking at the world from both bottoms up and top-down, as well as thinking about what valuations are like, how likely are macro events, the impact you’re getting not just the return on capital, but as famously said in fixed income, a return of your capital. Every bank had balance sheet.
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?
But it, it, summer of 2008, as you can imagine, was a really interesting time, particularly for the convertible bond desk because we were the busiest desk. As other parts of the market were closed, literally shutting down the convertible debt market was one of the last ones to remain open before September, 2008. 00:35:18 Right.
00:19:11 [Speaker Changed] The, the challenge is always the transition from the uptrend to the downtrend, which is why you have portfoliomanagers and allocators arguing who’s responsible. And then what happened in, in 2008? Well, most naive value portfolios are stuffed with financials. Absolutely.
Barry Ritholtz : This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, Tony Kim, is managing director at BlackRock, where he heads the fundamental equity technology group helping to oversee all of the active technology investments BlackRock makes. I must have worked for 30, 40 portfoliomanagers across four, four or five investment firms.
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