The Rob Vinall Podcast

RV Capital celebrated its 20th anniversary on 17th of August 2026. To mark the occasion, Rob looks back on six periods of his life that shaped him as a person and an investor.

Rob's half-year letter to his co-investors in the Business Owner Fund. The letter begins with an update on the fund, detailing why the portfolio's underlying progress is significantly stronger than the first-half headline performance suggests. It continues with a post-mortem of his investment in Wix, the website-design platform. How did Wix do relative to his original expectations? And wha...

In his 2025 letter, Rob discusses: A framework for selling investments; Why we sold Prosus; The idiosyncratic reason for selling PDD Holdings; Why we sold IPCO and kept Aker BP; Understanding RV's elevated cash position; The Crans-Montana tragedy and regulatory implications; Exploring AI's impact on jobs and the future of work; Analysing the AI scare trade and software moats.

In his half-year letter, Rob discusses: Business Owner's "Big Five" investments; Why the portfolio looks different to traditional funds; The unsuccessful investment in Ryman Healthcare: mistakes made and lessons learned; And, whether the AI boom is a repeat of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s.

Rob describes a recent trip he made to China, Japan and the US and discusses what he learned. As the trip started shortly after President Trump declared Liberation Day on 2 April, the trade war and tariffs were a recurring topic of the trip. The postcard discusses the trade war, but it is not just about the trade war. The trade war is in the news today but news cycles get ever shorter. It is impor...

In his 2024 letter to co-investors, Rob discusses: What a near 50% drawdown feels like Six investments in China One new investment in the energy sector Business and the moral high ground

Panel Discussion at RV Capital's Annual Gathering in Engelberg on 12 January 2025 with Graham Rhodes, Yixin Li, Fred Lui and Sofia Hou. Show Notes Li Lu Talk referenced by Graham: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/nwdP3GR-H8-m94NUnlsM-g Fred's letter on China: https://www.haydencapital.com/wp-content/uploads/Hayden-Capital-Quarterly-Letter-2021-Q2.pdf Blog referenced by Fred: https://www.baiguan....

Amelie hosts the panel "Women in Investing" at RV Capital's Annual Gathering in Engelberg on 12 January 2025 with April Li, Cynthia Maasry and Franziska Reh.

Rob does a mountainside chat with Will Thorndike, private equity investor and author of "The Outsiders", at RV Capital's Annual Gathering in Engelberg on 12 January 2025.

Rob and Andreas' Q&A at RV Capital's Annual Gathering in Engelberg on 11 January 2025.

Rob does a mountainside chat with Will Lundin, CEO of International Petroleum, at RV Capital's Annual Gathering in Engelberg on 11 January 2025.

In his letter to co-investors for the first half of 2024, Rob discusses: A new KVG for the Business Owner Fund His mentor Norman Rentrop A new investment in International Petroleum 3(!) new investments in China The promise and failings of ESG investing

In mid-August 2024, Rob traveled to East Africa. He visited four cities (Nairobi, Mombasa, Kigali, and Kampala) in three countries (Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda). In the postcard, Rob discusses what he saw and what he learned. The main topics discussed are the region's cities, economies, and stock markets, corruption, freedom, Chinese and Western money, foreign aid, entrepreneurship, M-Pesa, and...

This is a talk Rob gave at Bob Miles' Value Investor Conference in Omaha on 3 May 2024. The talk is called Five Moat Myths and discusses five commonly held beliefs about moats that may be incorrect. Rob first spoke at the Value Investor Conference in May 2014 when he discussed the topic of valuation in a talk called Mistakes of Omission . Rob spoke the second time in 2017 when he discussed the...

Rob discusses a recent trip to the US and reflects on what he saw in the places he visited and what he heard from the people he met. If you would like to leave a tip to cover the cost of the postage stamp on this postcard, please use this link .

Rob discusses his recent trip to China. He reflects on what he saw when travelling through four megacities and what he heard in conversations with friends, fellow investors, business people, and artists.

In his 2023 letter to co-investors, Rob discusses: The perils of reading too much into recent experience The current sentiment towards China A new investment in PDD Holdings

Rob Vinall moderates the Capital Allocator panel at RV Capital's 2024 Annual Gathering in Engelberg on the 14th of January 2024. The panel members are: Jason Matz: GHR Foundation Thomas Berchtenbreiter: BTV Beteiligungsverwaltung Sargent McGowan: UVIMCO (University of Virginia)

Amelie Vinall moderates a Women in Investing panel at RV Capital's 2024 Annual Gathering in Engelberg on the 14th of January 2024. The panel members are: Alex Douglas: Investure Fatima Dickey: Lagoda Investment Management Sofia Hou: Investment manager from Boston

Rob Vinall moderates a panel at RV Capital's 2024 Annual Gathering in Engelberg on the 14th of January 2024. The panel members are: Tim Liu: Meditation Capital Fred Saland: Oxylus Capital Joan Esteve Manasanch: Gesinter SGIIC

Rob Vinall and Andreas Lechner respond to the audience's questions about the development of the Business Owner Fund at RV Capital's 2024 Annual Gathering in Engelberg on the 13th of January 2024.

Rob Vinall interviews Wix COO Nir Zohar in front of a live audience at RV Capital's 2024 Annual Gathering in Engelberg on the 13th of January 2024

The topic of this memo is how hard it is to beat the market in the long term, why this is the case, and ten countermeasures an investor can take.

The podcast contains discussions of the following topics: A new investment in Interactive Brokers Increased investments in Meta Platforms and Ryman Healthcare Why the fund is concentrated in individual companies and what drives their weighting in the portfolio AI and Wix

Impressions from my first trip back to China after the pandemic. Topics discussed include: The increasing liveability of China's major cities; City planning in China; China's decoupling from the rest of the world; Battery Electric Vehicles; Competition; Politics and Macro; and my response to the question: Is China Investable?