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Raised in Southern Africa, Chris has since lived & invested from 7 different countries. After a career at top tier investment banks such as JPM, Lehman, Robert Flemmings and Invesco, Chris became tired of corporate life, and has since built and sold multiple million dollar companies, overseen $35m into venture capital, all the while investing full time, and managing his own and private client wealth.

Today’s issue is a bit of a detour from what you might be used to. But we strongly feel it was worth alerting you to a growing trend we’ve been
Clients started sending us their 401(k) statements and asking what was in them. We looked at a lot of them, and they’re all more or less the same: four sleeves that look like diversification and turn out to be one position held four ways. The international fund holds the chip makers. The private equity has gated. The bonds are the part that reprices everything else. And energy and materials come to about 4% each. Here’s what’s actually inside a standard retirement plan, and why we think you should go and look at your own.
NEW PODCAST WITH CHRIS MACINTOSH To start, Chris’ thoughts on the most pressing geopolitical and macro topics. Chris joined Danny from CapitalCosm for what Danny described as packing 100lbs of isht into
🎙️ NEW PODCAST WITH CHRIS MACINTOSH Chris joined Danny on his CapitalCosm podcast for another check in on the markets, specifically: You can listen to the entire conversation on Youtube here. 📈 THE
📊 VALUATION, BE DAMNED! If you only get one thing from today’s missive, watch this interview with investing great Joel Greenblatt. Buying what’s cheap and shunning what’s expensive sounds easy enough in theory.
🎙️ NEW PODCAST WITH CHRIS MACINTOSH We have another podcast with Chris to share with you this week. He recently joined Tom Bodrovics on the Competent Investor podcast. Here’s a smattering
🎙️ NEW PODCAST WITH CHRIS MACINTOSH Chris joined Christian White on his podcast… and as usual, no topic was off limits. A few of the things they chewed on: Pour yourself
🎙️ NEW PODCAST WITH CHRIS MACINTOSH Chris joined Danny on the CapitalCosm podcast. With a war reshaping global energy markets and Wall Street looking the other way, they had no trouble
🎙️ NEW PODCAST WITH CHRIS MACINTOSH Chris recently joined Tom Bodrovics on his Competent Investor podcast. With the world coming apart at the seams, there was no shortage of things to discuss.
🎙️ NEW PODCAST WITH CHRIS MACINTOSH About a year ago, Chris sat down with Ladislas (aka The Wandering Investor) to talk about investing in an age of conflict. Well, 2026 kicked
Before we dive in, happy New Year from all of us here at Capitalist Exploits. Here’s to a year of thinking differently (and independently), positioning ahead of the crowd, and
🎙️ NEW PODCAST WITH CHRIS MACINTOSH Chris joined Danny on the CapitalCosm podcast to pull back the curtain on the structural absurdities that are driving the market right now. Here’s just a handful