Rajiv Jain

18 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2026 by Rajiv Jain · across every show →

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Jun 8, 2026
Insight
Jain: Asset managers must prioritize absolute returns over relative benchmarks
“Relative is fine in an up market, but over the long run, if you don't have absolute returns, nobody needs you. You don't pay bills with relative performance. In a bull market, everybody thinks a relative, but if you want a long-term survival, you need an absol…”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 17:32 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Jain: Energy pipelines have massive barriers to entry due to regulation
“If you look at the energy business, it has become far higher barrier to business than it used to be. If you look at the pipelines, how long does it take to get any approvals? You don't have to go into Keystone, but any other pipeline, it's a much higher barrie…”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 25:02 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 negative
Insight
Jain: Investment teams that always agree with leadership become mere cheerleaders
“You never want a team that agrees with the hundred percent. Huge mistake. Because it simply will cheerlead you.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 18:52 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Jain: Jain exited all banking and financial exposure in early 2007
“I got nervous in early 2007, so we had exited all our banking exposure and financial exposure.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 17:03 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Jain: GQG Partners invested nearly $10 billion into software last month
“In last month, we put almost ten billion dollars to work in software.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 28:21 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 negative
Opinion
Jain: Quarterly reporting multiplies work without adding much value
“Quarterly reporting doesn't do much good. Transparency is fine, but it multiplies the work. Six-month reporting is good enough, in my opinion, and I'm talking about as an investor, because most of the world had six months anyway.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 59:25 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026
Insight
Jain: Managing scale requires being early; size prevents timely market exits
“It's better to be early than trying to time it. Once things find a catalyst, it happens. If you're running any size and scale, you won't be able to exit in a timely manner.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 18:30 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Jain: GQG's research team is half journalists hired to criticize investments
“Now we have an equal amount of journalists and traditional analysts. Their job is to take the opposite view by default. Journalists are pretty good at that. I've learned a lot hanging out with journalists. Half the team is journalists who basically criticize e…”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 19:26 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 neutral
Insight
Jain: Targeting high hit rates causes investors to miss multi-baggers
“The reason was because when you have a high hit rate, the problem is you have a high bar on what comes in. So you also miss a lot of multi-baggers for that reason. You actually lower the hit rate because then you have a small position.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 44:03 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Jain: GQG asks employees in year-end reviews where they changed minds
“We try not to hire folks who are dogmatic. One thing is we like folks to say, oh, you know what, this went wrong, and I changed my mind. Year-end review , we always ask, okay, what are the areas where you change your mind?”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 1:07:43 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026
Insight
Jain: Financial models need operational precision, not arbitrary 15% growth assumptions
“Which was one of the biggest learning experiences you forget as an analyst is that things have to be in a little more precise manner than simply putting in a model, or you grow at 15% next five years, and we all live happily ever after.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 9:37 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 negative
Insight
Jain: Great track records alone do not attract asset management capital
“The whole notion that we have great track record and people will come, that doesn't work that way. A lot of money managers don't have client servicing aspect in that.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 56:29 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026
Disclosure
Jain: GQG Partners limits offerings to four core products with one team
“We don't launch multiple products, four core products, same process, same team.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 56:55 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 bearish
Insight
Jain: Paying high multiples on peak margins for cyclicals causes massive losses
“If I go back to .com, the biggest lesson was some of the biggest losses that came in my book were the names that were cyclicals and we paid high multiples on peak margins. I remember Japanese names, which went from five percent operating margin to 25% margin, …”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 1:05:03 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Jain: Nvidia is the biggest winner in GQG history by absolute profits
“Media has been the single biggest winner in GQG's history in terms of absolute profits.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 29:43 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jain: 75% of clients fired Vontobel when he became CIO in 2002
“I became CIO in January, 2002. And quickly, 75% of clients fired us.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 14:33 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Jain: GQG bans personal trading; his net worth is in client funds
“We don't allow any personal trading here. Everybody has significant skin in the game. And I understand people have sometimes different views. I've had almost all of my net worth out value GQG in the products that clients would consume. Same exact vehicles.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 22:21 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
Jun 8, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Jain: GQG Partners will never set AUM or margin targets
“When we went public, in my first letter as the largest shareholder of the company, I specifically wrote two things. We will never have AEM targets, and we never have margin targets, so that nobody's confused.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 1:03:35 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
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