
Yet Another Value Podcast Patrick Wolff shares his thoughts investing in 2024, battleground stocks, MicroCaps + $TACT thesis
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Jan 12, 2024 Patrick Wolff, former US Chess champion, discusses a wide range of topics including the right to buy stocks, domestic vs. international focus, indexing vs. single stock investing, battleground stocks, advantages of investing in MicroCap stocks, and shares his thesis on Transact Technologies $TACT.
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From Chess Grandmaster To Investor
- Patrick Wolff recounts his career transition from chess grandmaster to investment professional.
- He describes working with Peter Thiel, running Grandmaster Capital, and later closing the fund and pursuing other ventures.
Use Cash As Strategic Optionality
- Allocate part of your portfolio to cash and short-duration safe instruments when yields are attractive.
- Use cash as optionality and compare opportunity cost versus expected stock alpha before deploying capital.
Reversion Risk Favors International Markets
- U.S. large-cap outperformance was driven by both EPS growth and multiple expansion, especially due to mega-cap tech.
- Europe and Japan may mean-revert and offer attractive returns after a long period of underperformance.
