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Crescat Capital: Global Macro Themes And Value Driven Models

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Jacob Wolinsky
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ValueWalk's Raul Panganiban interviews Crescat Capital's Kevin Smith And Tavi Costa, discussing their trade of the century idea. In this part, Tavi and Kevin discuss what led them to finance and investing,what working at Crescat like, their focus on global macro themes and value driven models, and finding contrarian ideas.

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Raul Panganiban: All right. Yeah, if we can just begin with your backgrounds and what led you to finance and investing?

Kevin Smith: Sure, I'll start. So my background I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. I went to Stanford and...

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob worked as an equity analyst covering small caps, a micro-cap analyst, doing member development a large hedge fund community and freelance financial writing. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal id. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: I almost exclusively avoid the purchase of equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds. I will disclsoe if I have a stake in any company, but in general avoid