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Mastering the Mental
Game of Investing
A video series to help you develop the mindset of a successful investor.
Watch the Series![Chris Davis on a Portfolio Well Suited to a Market in Transition](/davissma/images/portfolio-market-transition.jpg)
The Davis Large Cap Portfolio is benefitting as investors refocus on business fundamentals, growth and valuations – and remains significantly undervalued despite its attractive recent returns.
Watch Now![Rising Multiples Carried the Markets through the “Easy Money” Decade. What’s Next?](/davissma/images/vid031324/rising-multiples.png)
With normalizing rates, companies will need to earn their higher valuations. Find lower-multiple companies with sustainable and growing margins.
Watch Now![Recession Coming? Timing Investment Decisions to Predictions is a Loser’s Game](/davissma/images/vid031324/recession-coming.png)
Buy and hold regularly outperforms guessing the timing of the next recession. Align with companies that can ride out the storms.
Watch Now![What to Own and Avoid in a Changing Environment](/davissma/images/vid031324/what-to-own.png)
As rates normalize, specific companies attributes may be rewarded or penalized by the markets
Watch Now![How does the Current Market Compare to Others?](/davissma/images/vid031324/market-compare.png)
Examples when attractive stock-picking opportunities could be found in otherwise expensive markets
Watch Now![Investment Themes We’re Focusing On Today.](/davissma/images/vid031324/investment-themes.png)
Why we’re focusing on select opportunities within Financials, Tech at a reasonable price, Healthcare and Industrials
Watch Now![The Return to Rationality](/davissma/images/vid110823/balloon-thumb.jpg)
The bursting of the easy money bubble marks a huge transition for the markets
Watch Now![Investor Implications of Rising Rates](/davissma/images/vid110823/implications-rising-rates.png)
How the end of the free money era is ending the distortions of the past decade and returning rationality to the markets
Watch Now![The Easy Money Era – Who Was Helped](/davissma/images/vid110823/easy-money-helped.png)
The long period of low interest rate fueled a bubble, creating widespread market distortions and irrational valuations
Watch Now![The Easy Money Era – Who Was Hurt](/davissma/images/vid110823/who-hurt.png)
The long period of low interest rates punished companies who were succeeding by traditional measures
Watch Now![The Opportunity in Semi-Conductors](/davissma/images/vid110823/perennial-opp.png)
The huge, long-term tailwinds driving Semiconductor growth
Watch Now![Navigating Headwinds with Active Management](/davissma/images/vid110823/headwinds-for-average.png)
The ever-expanding margins and valuations of the past decade are unlikely to be sustained
Watch Now![How Investors Should Prepare for the End of the “Easy Money” Era](/davissma/images/vid060823/easy-money-2.jpg)
As rates normalize, certain business models are going to be severely challenged. What kind of companies do you want to own?
Watch Now![Volatility is the Price of Admission for Long-Term Returns](/davissma/images/vid060823/volatility-waves.jpg)
To benefit from the wealth-building potential of equities, investors need to understand that pullbacks and drama will be an inevitable part of the journey.
Watch Now![Equities Role During Periods of Inflation](/davissma/images/vid7822/equities-role-inflation.jpg)
How inflation quietly eats away at the purchasing power of consumers and how Equities – while volatile in the short term – can help investors build long-term wealth faster than inflation can degrade it
Watch Now![Recession Potential and Impact on Portfolio Positioning](/davissma/images/vid7822/recession-potential.jpg)
Predicting is futile. Buy businesses that have proven resilient through the inevitable storms. Investors are now being reminded of the critical importance of the business durability.
Watch Now![The Incredible Value Advisors Can Add During Volatile Markets](/davissma/images/vid7822/advisors-add-value.jpg)
How the guidance of a financial advisor can help investors successfully build wealth as they navigate inevitable market volatility.
Watch Now![The Advantages of Being a Global Investor Today](/davissma/images/vid7822/adv-of-global.jpg)
Many countries have managed their economies and stimulus programs more conservatively than the U.S., and may have less inflation risk.
Watch Now![Is the Long Term Bull Market Still Intact?](/davissma/images/vid031522/bull-intact.jpg)
Why we may be in the early innings of a “rotation” toward lower-valuation, less-favored areas of the market
Watch Now![Investing Through Ukraine and Other Crises](/davissma/images/vid031522/invest-through-ukr.jpg)
Is the current environment unprecedented? Combating the uncertainty felt by every investor when confronted with inevitable crises
Watch Now![Impact of Inflation & Rising Rates on Portfolio Positioning](/davissma/images/vid22422/impact-inflation.jpg)
Equities remain the preferable asset class – Particularly companies with the pricing power to pass along higher costs (select Tech and Industrials) or who benefit outright from rising rates (Financials)
Watch Now![Ukraine and the U.S. Economy](/davissma/images/vid031522/ukraine-us.png)
Ways the Ukraine conflict has accelerated existing trends in inflation, the unwinding of globalization and “just-in-time” supply chains
Watch Now![Ukraine and the Economies of Europe, Asia](/davissma/images/vid031522/ukr-europe-asia.jpg)
Ukraine conflict impacts to economies, trade, equity and commodity markets, and central bank policy around the globe
Watch Now![Russia, Ukraine and Sector-Specific Impacts](/davissma/images/vid031522/rus-ukr-sector.jpg)
While a small economy, Russia is outsized in specific sectors (energy, agriculture, industrial metals) and likely to impact supply/demand dynamics
Watch Now![A Tale of Two Markets](/davissma/images/s2.jpg)
The distortions and anomalies of the current market environment – extraordinarily narrow leadership, massive performance disparities between growth and value – and the risks and opportunities being created
Watch Now![Looking Past the Headlines to Uncover Investment Opportunities in China](/davissma/images/s10.jpg)
How the growth of the Chinese economy, its middle class and consumer culture are creating significant opportunities and driving the success of our investments in select Chinese businesses
Watch Now![The Investment Landscape in the U.S., Europe and Emerging Markets](/davissma/images/s3.jpg)
Despite COVID, enormous opportunities can be found in the US among both digital leaders and undervalued companies, European multinationals and consumer businesses across Asia. Rigorous research and selectivity are critical.
Watch Now![Financials: Underappreciated and Undervalued](/davissma/images/s7_chart.jpg)
Financials are the cheapest sector in the market – despite the strongest balance sheets in their history and their capture of a growing share of the market’s total earnings over the decade
Watch Now![How COVID-19 Impacts Portfolio Positioning](/davissma/images/covid_video_thumb.jpg)
Given short term uncertainties for both economies and companies, our focus is on durability, balance sheet strength and competitive advantages– factors that provide long term confidence in our companies over multiple scenarios.
Watch Now![Tuning out the Tweets](/davissma/images/asset_20_01.jpg)
The most important lessons on successfully compounding wealth from our 50 years in the equity markets
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