Playing the plan: Mawer’s international equity portfolio | EP115
The impacts of inflation, interest rates, and sharp currency movements on the portfolio, and the importance of leaning in to process and keeping a long-term perspective.
The Art of Boring™ was created for curious and passionate investors. We share strategies, frameworks, and insights to help readers and listeners make better investment decisions. Our aim? To provide some bottom-up, long-term investing signal to cut through the short-term noise.
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An energy-fuelled debate: Are renewables actually becoming cheaper? | EP114
The team debates the thesis that renewables are becoming “cheaper” than traditional energy sources, unpacks why the ultimate cost to the end consumer shouldn’t be missing from the conversation, and delves into the investment implications.
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Quarterly Update | Q2 2022 | EP113
Inflation, interest rates, the valuation correction, bias creep, and “sticking to our knitting.” A full dive into Q2.
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How to make (good) decisions | EP112
CIO Paul Moroz unpacks the foundational components to better decision making for investing, business, and life.
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s Canadian bond portfolio | EP111
Lead Portfolio Manager, Crista Caughlin, on what’s happening in bond markets, a look at inflation and interest rates, and the key scenarios we’re monitoring.
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s Canadian equity portfolio | EP110
Opportunities and risks we’re seeing in energy, rail, and financials; why we exited Shopify; and a few team learnings.
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Deep dive: DevOps | EP109
What DevOps is and why it’s a theme with investment potential.
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Creativity vs. Frameworks: How to build a better decision-making environment | EP108
On building a “global investment franchise” and balancing the trade-offs between creativity, efficiency, and process to build a consistent environment for better investment decisions.
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s emerging markets equity portfolio | EP107
Russia, the potential parallels to Taiwan and China, and macro to micro portfolio considerations in an inflationary environment.
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Quarterly Update | Q1 2022 | EP106
CIO Paul Moroz shares his take on what’s happening in the markets, some of the underlying factors behind recent performance, and a reminder that the wheels of capitalism will continue to turn.
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s U.S. equity portfolio | EP105
Portfolio Managers Grayson Witcher and Colin Wong share market observations, industries where fundamentals are shifting, and a few recent additions to the portfolio.
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The quality conundrum
The conundrum for investors these days is the trade-off between the value of quality and price to pay for it.
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s international equity portfolio | EP115
The impacts of inflation, interest rates, and sharp currency movements on the portfolio, and the importance of leaning in to process and keeping a long-term perspective.
August 3, 2022
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An energy-fuelled debate: Are renewables actually becoming cheaper? | EP114
The team debates the thesis that renewables are becoming “cheaper” than traditional energy sources, unpacks why the ultimate cost to the end consumer shouldn’t be missing from the conversation, and delves into the investment implications.
July 20, 2022
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Quarterly Update | Q2 2022 | EP113
Inflation, interest rates, the valuation correction, bias creep, and “sticking to our knitting.” A full dive into Q2.
July 13, 2022
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How to make (good) decisions | EP112
CIO Paul Moroz unpacks the foundational components to better decision making for investing, business, and life.
June 29, 2022
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s Canadian bond portfolio | EP111
Lead Portfolio Manager, Crista Caughlin, on what’s happening in bond markets, a look at inflation and interest rates, and the key scenarios we’re monitoring.
June 22, 2022
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s Canadian equity portfolio | EP110
Opportunities and risks we’re seeing in energy, rail, and financials; why we exited Shopify; and a few team learnings.
June 8, 2022
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Deep dive: DevOps | EP109
What DevOps is and why it’s a theme with investment potential.
May 25, 2022
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Creativity vs. Frameworks: How to build a better decision-making environment | EP108
On building a “global investment franchise” and balancing the trade-offs between creativity, efficiency, and process to build a consistent environment for better investment decisions.
May 11, 2022
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s emerging markets equity portfolio | EP107
Russia, the potential parallels to Taiwan and China, and macro to micro portfolio considerations in an inflationary environment.
April 27, 2022
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Quarterly Update | Q1 2022 | EP106
CIO Paul Moroz shares his take on what’s happening in the markets, some of the underlying factors behind recent performance, and a reminder that the wheels of capitalism will continue to turn.
April 20, 2022
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s U.S. equity portfolio | EP105
Portfolio Managers Grayson Witcher and Colin Wong share market observations, industries where fundamentals are shifting, and a few recent additions to the portfolio.
April 13, 2022
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The quality conundrum
The conundrum for investors these days is the trade-off between the value of quality and price to pay for it.
March 29, 2022
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s global equity portfolio | EP37
Deputy CIO, Christian Deckart, discusses everything from big picture risks to company specifics on this global equity portfolio episode.
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Mawer Insight: Q&A with CIO | EP36
CIO, Paul Moroz, answers clients’ questions about the current economic environment and how Mawer is positioning its portfolios.
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Deep dive: The U.S. healthcare industry | EP35
Equity analyst and previous biomedical researcher, Amit Shah, discusses the healthcare industry in the U.S.
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s Canadian small cap portfolio | EP34
Lead manager Jeff Mo discusses the psychology that drove the Canadian economy over the past 6 months, the correlation between Canadian and emerging markets equities, and what a holding “meeting our expectations” means at Mawer.
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Quarterly update | 1Q 2019 | EP33
Featuring insights from the first quarter from Balanced and Global Balanced Fund co-manager and Asset Mix Chair, Greg Peterson.
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s Canadian equity portfolio | EP32
Director of Research and Canadian equity lead manager Vijay Viswanathan discusses the overall Canadian economy, the problem with investing in natural gas and gold, and the amount of foreign exposure in the portfolio.
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Decentralized structures: a competitive advantage | EP31
Equity analyst John Wilson discusses how decentralized organizations can maintain agility and operational excellence as a defense to the negative aspects of change.
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Playing the plan: Mawer's emerging markets equity portfolio | EP30
Lead portfolio manager, Peter Lampert, discusses the current environment for the emerging markets equity portfolio.
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Good travels: The many business models found in the travel industry | EP29
On this episode, institutional portfolio manager, Rob Campbell, explores a few different types of business models in the travel industry and their respective risks and competitive advantages.
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Defining intrinsic value in a stochastic world | EP28
Equity analyst, Justin Anderson, walks us through the definition of intrinsic value, how we model it, and some of the ways it might be influenced by technology now and in the future.
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Trader talk | EP27
Equity traders Merv Mendes and Peter Dmytruk discuss the evolution of the trading desk at Mawer, the difference between quantitative and qualitative data, and the value of relationship building.
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Quarterly update | 4Q 2018 | EP26
Featuring insights from the fourth quarter from Balanced and Global Balanced Fund co-manager and Asset Mix Chair, Greg Peterson.
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s global equity portfolio | EP37
Deputy CIO, Christian Deckart, discusses everything from big picture risks to company specifics on this global equity portfolio episode.
June 12, 2019
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Mawer Insight: Q&A with CIO | EP36
CIO, Paul Moroz, answers clients’ questions about the current economic environment and how Mawer is positioning its portfolios.
May 29, 2019
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Deep dive: The U.S. healthcare industry | EP35
Equity analyst and previous biomedical researcher, Amit Shah, discusses the healthcare industry in the U.S.
May 22, 2019
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s Canadian small cap portfolio | EP34
Lead manager Jeff Mo discusses the psychology that drove the Canadian economy over the past 6 months, the correlation between Canadian and emerging markets equities, and what a holding “meeting our expectations” means at Mawer.
May 8, 2019
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Quarterly update | 1Q 2019 | EP33
Featuring insights from the first quarter from Balanced and Global Balanced Fund co-manager and Asset Mix Chair, Greg Peterson.
April 10, 2019
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Playing the plan: Mawer’s Canadian equity portfolio | EP32
Director of Research and Canadian equity lead manager Vijay Viswanathan discusses the overall Canadian economy, the problem with investing in natural gas and gold, and the amount of foreign exposure in the portfolio.
April 3, 2019
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Decentralized structures: a competitive advantage | EP31
Equity analyst John Wilson discusses how decentralized organizations can maintain agility and operational excellence as a defense to the negative aspects of change.
March 13, 2019
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Playing the plan: Mawer's emerging markets equity portfolio | EP30
Lead portfolio manager, Peter Lampert, discusses the current environment for the emerging markets equity portfolio.
March 6, 2019
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Good travels: The many business models found in the travel industry | EP29
On this episode, institutional portfolio manager, Rob Campbell, explores a few different types of business models in the travel industry and their respective risks and competitive advantages.
February 20, 2019
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Defining intrinsic value in a stochastic world | EP28
Equity analyst, Justin Anderson, walks us through the definition of intrinsic value, how we model it, and some of the ways it might be influenced by technology now and in the future.
February 6, 2019
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Trader talk | EP27
Equity traders Merv Mendes and Peter Dmytruk discuss the evolution of the trading desk at Mawer, the difference between quantitative and qualitative data, and the value of relationship building.
January 23, 2019
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Quarterly update | 4Q 2018 | EP26
Featuring insights from the fourth quarter from Balanced and Global Balanced Fund co-manager and Asset Mix Chair, Greg Peterson.
January 14, 2019
