Capital Group, every mention

Mike Gitlin – The Century of Capital Group (EP.479) Jan 5, 2026 · 95 mentions

• ▶ 0:05 Mike Gitlin When JBL founded the company, he said in 1931, when my grandkids, who didn't exist at the time, when my grandkids pass away, no one in the Lovelace family should own any bit of Capital Group stock. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 2:16 Ted Seides There may be none larger and quieter than Capital Group. 8 times in the scene
• ▶ 8:31 Ted Seides Why don't we start with the capital story? 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 12:11 Mike Gitlin Jim Lovelace also works at Capital Group. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 14:24 Mike Gitlin They join Capital Group at the age of 28, and they're an investor, because if you join as an analyst, you're managing money right away. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 17:24 Mike Gitlin The two standard questions I'll ask to investment professionals on our podcast, which is meant to show the secret sauce of Capital Group and the mindset of our investors. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 19:50 Mike Gitlin If our investment results are the same and our tenure at Capital Group's the same, our bonus is the same. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 23:22 Mike Gitlin If you become a shareholder of Capital Group, you hold it for your entire career, and upon retirement, over two, four, and six years, you then sell it back to the company, and we sell it on to the next shareholder. 8 times in the scene
• ▶ 26:50 Mike Gitlin If you asked me 30 years ago, would I A, be a capital group, and B, be in the position I'm at, my answer would have been no and no. 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 38:43 Mike Gitlin Capital Connect being that system that takes the whole history of Capital Group in 94 years and that proprietary information and makes it available to you in a usable format, just makes you smarter.
• ▶ 40:17 Ted Seides When you have all of this investment DNA, it's been interesting over the years that Capital hasn't had a lot of different products. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 45:43 Mike Gitlin In general, and this is why I don't love to talk about active versus passive, I like to talk about capital group versus passive. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 46:44 Ted Seides There's a long history, I mean, say back to even the founding of Sequoia, of some knowledge of private markets in the capital ecosystem, and then as it's exploded, I really participated in that. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 50:39 Ted Seides That big change of offering choice, how have you, as you came into this leadership seat, tried to tweak the model for capital or your leadership initiatives around choice? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 53:30 Mike Gitlin Intentionally saying, you don't have to climb up the mountain and come to Capital Group Management Committee and have us bless something. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 54:54 Mike Gitlin With AI, not every single job at Capital Group today will be the same in three years, five years, 10 years. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 58:33 Mike Gitlin We just won two awards on education in private markets. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:00:36 Ted Seides One of the changes over the last several years is for a long time, people don't even know, Capital Group had the American Funds. 12 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:02:36 Ted Seides As you look out six years to the hundred year anniversary, and then long beyond that, what do you see as the future for capital? 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:07:11 Ted Seides Mike, thanks so much for sharing the incredible capital story.