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Pricing power, and how to spot the real thing
Everyone claims it. Very few have it. Here is how we test for it.
The drawdown diaries: 2020, revisited
What we did in the spring of 2020, and what it told us about our partners.
Why healthcare, and why slowly
Demand we can predict ten years out, in businesses that must prove what they sell.
Concentration is a feature, not a risk
We hold eleven businesses, not a hundred. On purpose.
Meeting management: the questions we actually ask
Less about strategy, more about character and how people get paid.
The tyranny of the quarter
Ninety days is an accounting period. Nothing in a real business runs on it.
On succession, ours and theirs
A firm built to last has to answer the question every family business does.
The myth of the catalyst
We're often asked what will make a holding work. Usually the answer is time.
Buybacks: the good, the lazy and the destructive
A buyback is a capital allocation decision, and most are made badly.