Investment Roundtable: Powering Value Investing Through Active Engagement
Staying ahead of the performance curve while traversing today’s cookie-cutter investment landscape requires more than passive investing and intermittent engagement. Doing better than the market necessarily calls for doing something…
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Shipping – Investor’s Perspective
GVIC Portfolio Manager JP Geygan participated in the “Shipping – Investor’s Perspective” panel at the 15th Annual Capital Link New York Maritime Forum to share our thoughts on capital allocation…
Boots on the Ground
Members of our research team recently traveled to the offices and facilities of companies held in client portfolios to have productive discussions with management teams, observe recent improvements at the…
Staying in the Present
Our team is currently in the thick of “earnings season” following the second quarter of 2023. Within the span of two weeks, we will digest more than twenty-five companies’ financial…
Notes From the MIAM Research Desk
We initially had another topic in mind for this note but will save it for a future edition. As the saying goes: when life gives you lemons you make lemonade…
Notes From the MIAM Research Desk
There is a fundamental misconception regarding public markets that our team recognizes and uses to its advantage. That misconception is: a rising (or falling) stock price equates to value creation…
Notes from the MIAM Research Desk
Financial media headlines are dominated with prognostications about the future, few of which tend to be based in fact, and many of which end up being wrong. A sample of…
Notes from the MIAM Research Desk
In this note we discuss our research team’s recent trip to DNB ASA’s (Den Norske Bank) 2023 Energy and Shipping Conference in Oslo, Norway. DNB is an Oslo-headquartered, full-service financial…
Notes from the MIAM Research Desk
In this note, we will continue to highlight recent developments in the portfolio. Our research process demands that we perform a detail-oriented analysis of each company prior to adding a…
Notes from the MIAM Research Desk
After discussion of our views and philosophy on capital allocation for the previous two letters, this time we will give an update on companies in the portfolio. Despite most pundits…
Notes from the MIAM Research Desk
In this note we continue our discussion of capital allocation. To further the discussion, we give examples of capital allocation priorities observed in our portfolio companies and discuss our research…
Notes from the MIAM Research Desk
In the next two notes we will describe what capital allocation is and the impact it has on investment outcomes. We have split the discussion on capital allocation into two…