Feb 26, 2020
Today’s guest is Stephen Yiu, Chief Investment Officer of Blue Whale Capital. Stephen has over 20 years of experience investing in public equity. His fund has delivered consistent outperformance since inception two and half years ago. We began our conversation with Stephen’s investment approach, such as reasons for running a concentrated, high conviction portfolio, what underlies his buying and selling decisions, valuation metrics he uses. And then delved deeper into his current holdings, what are the key underlying investment themes and how these themes will play out in 2020 and beyond.
Pls note that there is discussion on the past performance of Blue Whale Capital in this episode and Past performance is not a guide to the future. Risk of loss.
Key Takeaways
Episode links
Blue Whale Capital: https://bluewhale.co.uk/
Hargreaves Lansdown: https://www.hl.co.uk/
Blog post on how efficient market is affected active fund
management:
https://bluewhale.co.uk/blog/2019/09/04/is-an-increasingly-efficient-market-killing-off-traditional-active-fund-management/
Blue Whale top 10 holdings: https://bluewhale.co.uk/top-10/