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I try to balance between “buy businesses that don’t require you to diversify” and guarding against my own biases and stupidly (which is high, trust me). Currently have under 20 businesses in the portfolio but top 5 make up over 80% or so.

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Mar 5Liked by The Thinking Investor

Hope it works! 30 stocks - 10 coffee can: 20 the rest. It’s less clean and more changeable than that though as I’m a guilty but self aware over-trader

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Mar 5Liked by The Thinking Investor

Roughly 1/2 coffee can (> concentrated); 1/2 dividend growth/ high yield (<concentrated).

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Mar 7Liked by The Thinking Investor

All uncorrelated bets, ones that work well when high liquidity is in, other more event driven... I think everyone should have their own definition as you posted ;)

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Mar 6Liked by The Thinking Investor

With income, it's kinda like regular inflows. So 3-10% total portfolio value for each position, with 10% as the ceiling for adding new capital but existing positions can grow beyond that. Losers caused by stupidity are trimmed, otherwise most things stay a while. Find 1-2 ideas each year for extra capital that's not related to large positions. Overtime, it gets diversified.

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Mar 5Liked by The Thinking Investor

over 40

This is because I go into the higher risk microcaps, Emerging market space

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