The Art of Boring

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.

Why investors really need to understand the mechanics of Bitcoin | EP87

Opening the Pandora’s box of Bitcoin, societal trust, and why investors might not, but need to, fully understand the technology.

June 16, 2021 50 Mins

Where I’m seeing value in emerging markets

I’ve been revisiting Philip Fisher’s Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits recently. Scanning the opportunity set in emerging markets, I’ve been trying to imagine what Fisher would have made of the current investment landscape.

May 26, 2021 7 Mins

Playing the plan Mawer U.S. equity portfolio EP86

Playing the plan: Mawer’s U.S. equity portfolio | EP86

“Making the macro micro” around demand trends, inflation concerns, valuations, and earnings. We discuss Comcast, Visa, Dollar General, Alphabet, and more.

May 19, 2021 35 Mins

Deep dive: The pharmaceutical industry | EP85

A close look at our research methods to understand trends, opportunities, and challenges in the pharmaceutical industry.

May 5, 2021 38 Mins

Playing the plan: Mawer’s Canadian equity portfolio | EP84

How thinking like a deer in the forest (situational awareness) and other risk management process tinkering has helped the team. In addition, thoughts on the potential CP Rail and Kansas City Southern deal and TELUS International IPO.

April 21, 2021 24 Mins

Quarterly update | Q1 2021 | EP83

One year since lockdown: CIO Paul Moroz summarizes the major market themes of the past four quarters and how it has (and hasn’t) affected our process and way of looking at the world.

March 31, 2021 32 Mins

Playing the plan: Mawer’s EAFE large cap portfolio | EP82

Equity Analyst, Stanislav Lopata, shares his observations regarding the pandemic’s impacts on markets and what’s new with the portfolio.

March 24, 2021 20 Mins

Where I’m seeing value in emerging markets

May 26, 2021 7 Mins

'Twas the week before Christmas

‘Twas the week before Christmas, (and you know it’s true), COVID looms large in our annual review.

December 18, 2020 2 Mins

Mawer’s autumn reads 2020

The onset of autumn means ‘tis time for some recommended reads.

September 2, 2020 3 Mins

(Not) boring finds for June 2020

Howard Marks sent a memo; Ray Dalio explained the last 500 years as they related to empires and reserve currencies; we learned a new word, “shoshin”; and scanned a lot of charts about U. S. advertising revenue trends.

June 30, 2020 2 Mins

The enemy is us: Mitigating confirmation bias

Back in March, as physical distancing practices were being implemented globally, I was bemused by contrasting provocatively titled articles published within a day of one another.

June 10, 2020 16 Mins

(Not) boring finds for May 2020

A podcast about decision-making theory, a global fiscal policy tracker, a blog about market assumptions, and an infinite monkey theorem experiment. The ideas springs have sprung.

May 27, 2020 1 Mins

Mawer Market Update—March 20, 2020

Over the last week, the world has seen a continued increase in COVID-19 cases and, consequently, a greater effort to contain the virus.

March 20, 2020 3 Mins

Post-mortem: Learnings from 2020 | EP80

Chief Investment Officer Paul Moroz discusses why the Research team’s post-mortem process is important, and some of their top learnings from 2020.

February 16, 2021 25 Mins

Playing the plan Mawer international equity portfolio EP79

Playing the plan: Mawer’s international equity portfolio | EP79

Lead portfolio manager, David Ragan, discusses how the portfolio did over the past year, why some companies were more resilient than others, and what makes skepticism a competitive advantage.

January 27, 2021 28 Mins