The Ledger

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Bathgate: NZS targets a 30% hit rate on optionality investments
“What we're really playing for in the optionality, half the portfolio is asymmetry. And really it's not about batting average. Like it's okay if we're only right. 30% of the time, which is not intuitive at all for public markets investors.”
John Bathgate Nov 3, 2021 ▶ 39:26 Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
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Bathgate: NZS Capital holds Texas Instruments for its decentralized culture
“Some companies in the portfolio we admire that, that do that would be someone like Texas Instruments where they have a really decentralized Culture and they actually push responsibility and decision-making down into kind of the deeper parts of the organization…”
John Bathgate Nov 3, 2021 ▶ 15:58 Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
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NZS Capital: Microsoft and TSMC anchor resilient portfolio with ~10% turnover
“And so this would be a company like companies we own in the head of the portfolio, be someone like a Microsoft or a TSMC where we're not looking for like value stocks or kind of like cheap companies. We're looking for companies that are healthy growers that we…”
John Bathgate Nov 3, 2021 ▶ 17:32 Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
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Bathgate: NZS Capital holds roughly one-third of its portfolio in semiconductors
“We have about a third of the portfolio in, in semis.”
John Bathgate Nov 3, 2021 ▶ 56:59 Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
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Bathgate: TSMC never exceeds a 10% portfolio position due to geopolitical risk
“I mean, I guess it'll never be our, like, a 10% position for that reason as there is always this risk”
John Bathgate Nov 3, 2021 ▶ 1:25:29 Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
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