Investment Philosophy
This gives a competitive advantage to those who look at the long term.
At IMA, all of our models focus on what the company will be worth in 3-5 years, based on its earnings power and cash flows. We then bring that future value forward to today at a discount rate, to see what we want to pay for this company right now.
We don’t trade – we invest.
Traders have the short term in mind, so they treat stocks more like widgets than actual businesses.
The problem is rooted in the instant liquidity of US markets. This seduces many – an investor (including fund managers) into acting like a trader and focusing on the short term.
We take Warren Buffett’s approach by asking ourselves, “Would we want to own this business if the stock market was closed for 10 years?”
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Stoic Edge
Other than Structure, Process, Analysis & Behavioral edge, we are good at being Contrarian
NO hiding behind ‘Circle of Competence’
If we find a sector showing promise, we don’t simply ignore it because it is out of ‘competence zone’. Investing is about constant learning and expanding the Circle of Competence
NO Sector Preferences
Markets don’t just give opportunities in our favourite sectors. Even though some sectors are more structurally positive than others but we go where the evidence guide us.
Market Cap Agnostic
Ideally, we prefer Mid and Small Caps but on occasions more value is in Large Caps vis a vis Mid and Small Cap companies and if there is evidence, we shift our focus.
“In Short, we go where evidence of Value exists and we build our knowledge base to invest in those opportunities and strongly believe in not chasing the crowd and momentum”
NO SECOND-RATE INVESTMENTS
BUILT TO ALIGN WITH WHAT’S BEST FOR YOU.
But we took one more step to align our interests with yours: we own the same stocks as you.
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