The market likes certainty. Change creates opportunity.

We identify change within high-quality businesses and actively manage positions to generate long-term returns.

Our Process

Identify what is changing

Our search for prospective investments involves evaluating fundamental and structural changes.

1

Seek out superior capital allocators

The greatest quality we seek to uncover is a management team skilled at allocating capital — leading to company-specific value creation.

2

Invest in high-quality businesses

Investment attributes we desire include industry leadership, a sustainable business model, high returns, and limited balance sheet leverage.

3

Manage a concentrated portfolio with attention to risk

Our 15–20 best ideas are analyzed for probability of permanent loss of capital. Valuation is a key determinant of position sizing.

4

Lessons we've learned

01

Temperament

Nervous energy is one of the greatest destroyers of wealth.

02

Prudence

Complexity has a cost.

03

Timing

Investing is extremely difficult, timing is impossible.

04

Debt

Leverage shortens investing time horizons.

“The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”

~Erwin Schrödinger