Invest Like the Best · August 26, 2024 · 62m

Chris Mayer: The Patience Premium in Investing

Chris Mayer argues that patience is the single most undervalued edge in investing. In a world of 5.5-month holding periods, the investor willing to hold for 10-20 years has an almost unfair advantage.

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Courage is learnable — the patience to hold a stock through years of underperformance requires courage that can only be built through experience and studying the histories of great compounders

Mayer argues that patience in investing is a form of courage — the courage to look wrong for years while trusting a long-term thesis. This courage must be built through practice and historical study.

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Highlights

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The patience premium: in a market where the average holding period is 5.5 months, an investor willing to hold for 10 years has essentially no competition

Mayer argues that patient capital has become so rare that it constitutes a genuine competitive advantage. Companies that require 5-10 years to compound (small quality businesses, emerging market leaders, turnaround stories) are systematically mispriced because most investors can't wait that long.

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