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Nov 2024
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TIP678: Mastering Focus Investing: Lesso...

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On today’s episode, Kyle Grieve discusses major takeaways from the book The Warren Buffett Portfolio, including why concentrated portfolios offer the highest probabilities of outperforming, how focus investors think about risk, Warren Buffett’s four-step framework for identifying great investments, the importance of patience, discipline, and self-awareness to investing success, how to widen your circle of competence, why thinking in probabilities is intertwined with outperfrmance and risk reduction, and a whole lot more!


IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

02:53 - The reasons that focus investors are concentrated and the pros and cons of having a concentrated portfolio.

07:12 - Buffett's views on risk and what risk means to him.

08:42 - Warren Buffett's 4-step framework to determine whether an investment is rational.

13:16 - The shared characteristics of these five investors, which helped them overperform.

14:51 - Exciting research on the effects of concentrating your portfolio on long-term performance.

22:35 - How to measure your performance using fundamentals instead of stock prices.

30:15 - Simple ways to widen your circle of competence.

39:01 - Why you should think in probabilities when thinking about investing and practical ways of applying it to your investing.

50:20 - The primary principles Warren Buffett learned from Benjamin Graham and Charlie Munger to best understand human psychology in markets.

55:26 - The roles of overconfidence, overreaction, loss aversion, and mental accounting have on investor psychology.

And so much more!


Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.


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