#55 Edward Chancellor: Capital Returns

Investing by the Books

In today’s episode, Christian Billinger, a London-based investor who has joined the podcast before, is speaking with none other than Edward Chancellor. Edward is an author, finance journalist, and former hedge fund investment strategist. The discussion is centered around Chancellor’s book Capital Returns. It covers capital cycle investing and how investors can benefit from focusing on forecasting supply rather than demand.

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This episode was recorded on Dec 15, 2023.

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Episode Chapters

(00:00) Introduction to today’s format by Eddie & Niklas

(02:33) Introduction by Christian

(07:43) Another lesson from the book

(10:15) Does capital cycle investing merge the growth and value dichotomy?

(13:21) Quality as a generator of Alpha

(15:38) Finding companies where the capital cycle doesn’t apply

(18:10) Does the framework also apply to the overall market?

(26:24) Applying the framework in a capital-light industry

(28:13) Obvious excesses in the current time

(33:30) Have the obvious excesses been fully compensated for?

(35:48) Fitting the narrow market rise into the framework

(42:38) Rounding off the discussion

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Books Mentioned

• Devil Take the Hindmost - Edward Chancellor
• Capital Returns - Edward Chancellor
• The Price of Time - Edward Chancellor

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More on Edward

• https://www.edwardchancellor.com/

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About the Podcast

Intro episode: https://www.redeye.se/podcast/investing-by-the-books/817383/0-intro-to-investing-by-the-books

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