Mike Choe

7 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 17, 2025 by Mike Choe · across every show →

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Feb 17, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Choe: Charlesbank Targets Asymmetric Upside Distributions Over High Base Cases
“Rather than looking at things that have a high base case, what we're looking for now are companies that have a very asymmetric distribution of outcomes towards the upside with very muted downside.”
Mike Choe Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 27:55 Michael Choe - Atomization of Private Equity Decisions at Charlesbank (EP.432)
Feb 17, 2025 negative
Insight
Choe: Perceived PE Management Quality Is Mostly a Spurious Correlation
“You don't really know management quality when you first come to an investment. You actually develop your view of their quality depending on how that investment's going, so that's sort of a spurious correlation.”
Mike Choe Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 24:48 Michael Choe - Atomization of Private Equity Decisions at Charlesbank (EP.432)
Feb 17, 2025 neutral
Insight
Choe: Charlesbank treats investment management as a decision-manufacturing process
“And so we tend to think about our firm as a manufacturing process where the atomic unit of production is a decision. Now, some of those decisions are final investment decisions, but really everything we do leading up to a final investment decision is the produ…”
Mike Choe Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 16:00 Michael Choe - Atomization of Private Equity Decisions at Charlesbank (EP.432)
Feb 17, 2025
Assertion Supported
Choe: Charlesbank has only expanded into business adjacencies twice in 30 years
“This is why in nearly 30 years of being a private equity firm, we've only done that twice.”
Mike Choe Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 48:08 Michael Choe - Atomization of Private Equity Decisions at Charlesbank (EP.432)
Feb 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Choe: Action bias strongly correlates with high performance at Charlesbank
“One of the factors that is very dominantly correlated with being a high performer at Charles Bank is something called action orientation or action bias in the personality tool that we use.”
Mike Choe Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 41:12 Michael Choe - Atomization of Private Equity Decisions at Charlesbank (EP.432)
Feb 17, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Choe: Charlesbank models a 12% annual recession probability for underwriting
“The thing we now do, if a business is severely recession exposed, we have a generic probability of a recession. It's 12% in any given year. We could be wrong about that, but it's better than not putting a probability in. So we say, okay, well, let's just assum…”
Mike Choe Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 29:07 Michael Choe - Atomization of Private Equity Decisions at Charlesbank (EP.432)
Feb 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Choe: Two-Year Pre-Tax Earnings Growth Strongly Predicts PE Investment Success
“When we ran our regression analysis, our ability to grow the pre-tax earnings of a company within the first two years of our ownership was highly correlated and very predictive of ultimate investment success, no matter how long the hold period was.”
Mike Choe Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 24:25 Michael Choe - Atomization of Private Equity Decisions at Charlesbank (EP.432)
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