Recorded at the Exchange ETF Conference in Las Vegas, host Ryan Nauman welcomes Michael Baron, co-president and portfolio manager at Baron Capital, to discuss the firm’s long-term growth investing philosophy and its expansion into ETFs. Baron explains that since 1982 the firm has focused on owning competitively advantaged businesses for years, emphasizing management quality, durable advantages, and valuations based on future earnings rather than near-term results. He describes how Baron Capital aims for consistency through market cycles by holding diversified types of growth companies. Baron outlines the rationale for launching five ETFs in December to complement their mutual fund lineup, citing investor demand for different vehicles and ETF benefits such as tax efficiency, tradability, and transparency, while keeping strategies core to the firm. He also notes mutual fund trading improvements and plans for additional ETFs.
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00:00 Show Intro and Disclosures
00:37 Live From ETF Exchange
01:45 Baron Capital Philosophy
05:25 Growing Up Investing
10:34 Consistency Through Cycles
15:21 Why Launch ETFs Now
17:30 Inside the Five ETFs
20:52 Mutual Funds Learnings
23:12 Where to Learn More
24:23 Closing and Subscribe
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:Welcome everyone to zephyr's
adjusted for Risk podcast.
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:We are recording on location at the
Exchange ETF conference in Las Vegas.
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:You know, more and more asset
managers have started to
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management firm are no different,
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insights about the innovations and how
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:ETFs compliment their mutual funds.
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:I'd like to give a very warm
welcome to Michael Baron.
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:Michael is a co-president and
portfolio manager at Baron Capital.
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:Michael.
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:Thank you so much for
coming on the podcast.
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:It's an honor to have you.
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:I'm really excited
about this conversation.
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:Can you tell us a little bit
about yourself and Barron Capital?
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:Sure.
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:Um, first of all, thank you for having me.
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:Uh, this is, as you mentioned, we're
doing this on location, um, at a,
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:a conference here in Las Vegas, and
it's actually my first ETF conference.
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:So, so I'm a newbie here.
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:Uh, but, uh, been been doing this for, for
a little bit in terms of asset management.
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:Our firm obviously has
been doing it even longer.
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:Uh, so I think the question was just tell
you a little bit about Barron Capital
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:and, and how we got our start as I think
the name would suggest, you know, my
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:dad, Ron Barron, he had been a traitor
previously and he had this epiphany, um,
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:looking back at all the, the trades he
made and said, Hey, when you find these
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:incredible businesses that fit the Barron
Capital philosophy and premise, it's
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:better to own them for the long term.
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:And I'll go into exactly
what that is in, in a second.
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:Um.
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:But as, as we've done that over,
like I said, since:
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:years, I guess at this point, not
much has changed with Baron Capital.
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:We, we've, you know, we wanna be
known as the boutique equity growth
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:manager, um, a long-term owner.
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of the business, it's about extending
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:the number of product structures, not
necessarily in terms of, of products,
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:um, but what we do at Baron Capital
and what it, why it's so unique is.
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:We're growth managers.
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:Um, when you're owning businesses, I
think the average mutual funder or average
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:manager out there owns businesses for 10
or 11 months, less than a year on average.
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:You don't care.
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:You don't care what the,
why others can't do this.
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:You're, you're saying, what's it
gonna do next quarter or next year?
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:We're thinking about what these businesses
can become over five years, 10 years,
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:and it shows the numbers, you know, our
average holding period across the firm.
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:I think it's around, uh, six years
or so when some of our larger
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:strategies have been higher,
getting up to seven or eight years.
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:Uh, so we really need to understand
the competitive advantage.
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:What's the dream and why
can others not do this?
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:We're we're, these are not
nameless faces organizations.
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:These are true, uh, people, entrepreneurs
who are driving them, making decisions.
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:It's, uh, it's actually the part of my
job that I love the most other than coming
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:It's, you know, going out and, and doing
research, talking to executives, talking
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:to founders of businesses, understanding,
uh, what their vision is for them.
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:What's their mission, uh, what's
their dream, um, where they've had
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:successes in the past, where they've
had failures in the past, and really
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:betting on them whether or not we think
they'll be successful in achieving
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:the long term goals of that business.
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:Um, and then finally, we're looking
to buy them at attractive prices and.
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thing to talk about for a second.
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:You know, people look at us
and growth investors and they
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:What they're, what they're either
doing today or, or what they're
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we're looking out into the future.
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become, what they can earn in the future,
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:and, and from those perspective, from
that perspective, very unique perspective.
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:Uh, we'd like to, we find businesses
that we feel can double in value over
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:the next five years and probably double
again four or five years after that.
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:Michael, fantastic.
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:And going back, uh, I told you this story
during our prep call, but years ago.
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:Um, your father Ron?
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:We used to, when I was in Seattle,
uh, with a financial advisory
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:We loved it as a, uh, I
love Barron Growth Fund too.
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:Yeah.
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:And, um, we had, Ron stopped by the office
and gosh, I was, I was young, Michael.
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early twenties, sitting there with.
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to Ron, your dad, about what?
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my highlights of early career.
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it's come full circle.
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gonna be working at Barron Capital?
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:Was it one of like, for me, growing up,
my dad, uh, owned a little bit different.
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:Dental technician office and everybody
was like, well Brian, you'll just
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:You are not gonna be making
teeth for the rest of your life.
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is what you wanted to do?
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:Yeah, that's a, it's a great question.
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:It's a hard one to even answer.
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:I mean, I don't know what I would've
done, uh, had my dad been anything else.
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:But he ingrained it in both
me and my brother David.
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:A young age, um, about investing
in our style investing, and
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the way I just said it sounds, sounds
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:awful, but to, but to my dad's credit,
he actually made it fun and interesting.
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we're not talking about, uh, concepts
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about what makes a business.
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about earlier and about the people.
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that when we were a kid, you know, you
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:early on, um, in first grade, you know
who the smart kid in your class is.
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:You know who the good kid in your
class, you know who you wanna be
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:That's the people who we wanna invest
with, the people who we think are
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:smart, trustworthy, that we get to
know like, um, and, and believe in.
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job where I get to go out and.
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:Meet them, speak to them, uh, hear
their stories, hear about what they
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:think their business is gonna turn into
and how they're going to achieve it.
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:Um, yeah, so I'm, I'm very fortunate
to have had him as a father
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:Uh, and, and as I was talking about
earlier, you know, that philosophy
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:when, whenever you met him, I guess
he said around 20 years ago, um,
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:and, and then 40 years ago, 44 years
ago when we started the business.
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:Nothing has changed with Baron Capital.
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:It's the same investment philosophy
and, and, and, and process
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:that we've implemented just
keeps on expanding and growing.
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:And you know, we've started as a small
cap manager and when you're a successful
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:small cap manager and you have a long term
horizon, your businesses go from small
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:cap to mid cap to hopefully large cap
and, and happened in many, many cases.
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:And we found that the same
investment philosophy and
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:process really does work across.
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:Market caps.
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:And at this point, we've had around 19 or
20 different investment strategies across
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think we're the most successful,
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:uh, growth equity manager out there.
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:Um, and, and people say, well,
how can you possibly say that?
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we all know it's obviously very hard
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:to beat the index yet 96% of our assets
beat their index since inception.
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:For mutual fund assets be beat their
index since inception, and it's not
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:just beating by a little bit, we're
not trying to be benchmark hugging and,
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:and, and in that aspect, but 95% are in
the top 20% of the respective category.
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:And over 50% on the top 5% of
their category, including many
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:funds that are in the, you know,
one percentile of their category.
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:So it's this, this process and philosophy
that, as you were talking about earlier,
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:He's been talking about and speaking
about it, and making it fun for me
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:to, to hear about and listen, um, and
learn from him and, and learn from
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:Um, that, that's been, you
know, an incredible privilege.
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get enough credit for, you know,
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and, you know, accolades for his
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on at Barron Capital in addition to him.
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:So we all abide by the same investment
philosophy and premise that you
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everyone at the firm to buy into it.
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45 investment professionals,
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:approximately, um, you know, 20
ish or so portfolio managers.
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turn on a factory and just pump it out.
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in, in a slightly different manner.
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more, some might weight the people a
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:little more the competitive advantage
depending on what the strategy is
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barren capital type investment and
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:Michael, I love that.
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or just, it's interesting how.
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people in this industry from
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thought I was gonna be an investment
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by an entire year.
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my research in Zephyr, it's about
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:trying to find managers at either it's
consistent performance, consistent
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whatever that flavor is.
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:If value is now up, performing,
changing their value, chasing
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have you guys been able to do it?
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know what their, you know, it's a
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they buy into that culture.
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which is so important.
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stay so consistent over the years?
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:Being consistent is hard, um, especially
in, in, you know, volatile markets.
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:Um, you know, if you're consistent
in philosophy and you have markets
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gonna be times that you underperform
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:We probably out underperform the market,
uh, probably once every three years.
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at many of our funds and strategies,
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:so, so once every three years we'll
underperform, not by a lot, but by little.
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better years, on the up years, um,
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track record be what it is today.
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proud of in terms of our portfolio
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do in any one given year, um, but how
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when times are good and how'd
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managers, people kind of assume
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shoot the lights up.
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times are good, we do good, we do better.
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um, our, our reputation is we've
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on more challenging time periods.
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quality growth businesses and.
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high quality growth business.
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for people to understand and
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:define, but you need to have
balance and ballas in the portfolio.
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don't all trade in the same manner.
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portfolios like Baron Partners Fund
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focused growth on the mutual fund side.
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:Things both in the top percentile of the
respective categories since inception
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:Um, an officer that, a concentrated
portfolio called Baron First Principles
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:ticker Ron B and assume you can
assume who it was named after.
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on, on the contract.
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:So even in these concentrated
portfolios of 20, 25 names, we
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in different market environments.
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core growth businesses.
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ideas, you know, that, that, that.
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that have that accelerated growth.
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:We find growth businesses on the real
estate side of things that when there's
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do well, we find, um, growth businesses
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that do well in, in more challenging,
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:Um, so having this diversity of growth
businesses allows us to consistently
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:out do well over the long term,
even though we might not do well.
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even one given year.
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and understand that, and they
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:Yeah, I think that's a very important
Michael, because there's studies
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gonna outperform or underperform.
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of underperformance, like you said.
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kind of that misconception you said
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names, you protect some on the downside
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cycles that you know, that might
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we're high volatility we're
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on the growth side and you guys are kind
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we own high quality growth and, and I, I
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it when I say that, when anyone says this.
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you define how quality and, and
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know, the companies that even in a period
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for them, um, that others aren't gonna
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they're not going to be left behind.
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are, you know, investing in themselves
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earnings for that greater potential.
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competitive advantage remains intact.
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of these, these businesss that
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because you had mentioned it being,
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downside there, you know, a little
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market cycles are doing something
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of, uh, Baron Capital.
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launched five new ETFs.
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the ET TF conference.
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launching ETFs after, you know, 40
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funds going into getting into ETFs?
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of what we did and why we did it.
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as well, and it's about changing lives.
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of our clients, of our investors.
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our assets are in the private wealth.
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our clients that are appropriate,
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appropriately and giving them the.
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:Uh, wrapper, the vehicle that is, is best
suited for them in, in the, in the, for
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want to change lives of your clients,
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to be met, and that you need to give
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efficiency, from, from tax efficiency, um,
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all all know these.
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of the mutual funds too by making sure
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our existing clients by offering this,
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transparency, um, by having tradability.
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those factors, uh, we decided to launch.
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when I see so many people that were,
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and, and launching, they would launch
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weren't working for them in the mutual
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wasn't really true to who they were.
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and that's not what we wanted to do.
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that were truly core.
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known for, and obviously the
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for is small and mid cap growth.
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:Investing around, around half of our
assets right now are in small and
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and, and mid cap strategies have been
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in, in the mega caps, uh, as opposed
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it, usually around two thirds are in.
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cap and a mid cap strategy.
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and mid cap strategy combined.
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to be offering in the ETF fabric,
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be able to go across market caps.
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the, our success in concentrated
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and, and Baron focused growth.
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and that's Baron first principle.
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:Uh, we have a great, uh, strategy
in the US uh, for durable advantage.
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growth companies that are able
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:Uh, we're now gonna deal
with that on a global level.
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two of our sector funds.
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:Um, Baron Technology, ETF was was a,
it was a conversion from a mutual fund.
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using these adjectives.
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and, and excellent or whatever,
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:There was just an article in, I
believe it was Morningstar, talking
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:This is our higher growth,
um, all cap strategy.
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:Baron Opportunity Fund was the best
performing mutual fund over the past
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of an offshoot of that.
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in, in terms of names holding.
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:So a little bit more concentrated, purely
on, on the tech side of things, um, to
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:And then financials, uh, was a
conversion as well as I was talking
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:Not just financials,
they're not commoditized.
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but, but growth financials.
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our firm, we have around 18 or 19% of
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:For the s and p 500, I
think it's around 12%.
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:For the Russell 3000
growth, it's around 5%.
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overweight financial, the firm.
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:Um, led to be, you know, had great
benefits to our portfolios and our
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:investors as a result of that, you know,
finding these high quality, um, growth
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out for other investors to use it, you
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portfolios to give them that, that, uh,
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don't get in, in most growth portfolios.
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ETFs to your mutual fund business
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said, it's people's lives change.
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vehicles to help them, whether
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anywhere, like you said, right?
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helps them, you know, um, maybe
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need and their objectives and so on.
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you guys have been, um, you know,
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some years with their mutual funds.
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based on the success of ETFs?
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mutual funds have taken from the success
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can do this within a mutual fund wrap?
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least us, at, at our mutual fund, you
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give a better product to our investors.
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one downfall we've had that some
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critique we they've had on our
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position in order to get into another
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our average holding period being in.
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strategy, anywhere between four
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be costly and we've entered into
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institutions, big banks, in order to
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us as opposed to us impacting the,
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know, out of position to allow
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a non-taxable event, uh, when we're
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for our, for our clients.
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way of rebalancing our portfolios.
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we do go, you know, you were
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know, like I was saying, it was,
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:Bearing capital, it's like, you know,
the essence of us, whether it be small
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higher growth things or financials.
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:Um, it's not gonna be our last five and
we've already filed for, for two more.
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coming years, uh, you'll see
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from us, um, but it's really.
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the investment strategy with to
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that makes the most sense for them.
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:I love it.
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:Great insight.
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:I love just hearing the backdrop,
the inner workings up barren capital.
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:What makes it so special?
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:Special place.
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:Michael.
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:Where can our audience get more
information about Baron Capital?
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:Uh, sure.
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:Um, come visit us.
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:Uh, obviously the first play thing to do
is to go to, uh, baron capital group.com.
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:One of the thing I do wanna mention is,
you know, we're not a firm that's about
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:advertising and, and, and putting big
ads out there and, and, you know, splashy
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:content and all of a sudden people.
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us and, and investing with us.
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:We wanna have real conversations, um,
with advisors about their clients'
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:needs and what their objectives
are, and finding the, like I said,
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:the right, uh, strategy and the
right, you know, structure for them.
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:So we've really built out our
distribution team, whether it be on
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:the, on the RIA side of things or on
the wholesaling side of things, um,
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:So the first thing to do is obviously
come to our website, but then drop us
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:Um, and have that conversation about
what is the right, uh, strategy and
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:I love it.
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:Michael, thank you so much.
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:It's been a fun conversation, honor to
have you on, and thank you everyone for
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