Planet MicroCap Podcast | MicroCap Investing Strategies

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Chris Krug. He is the President of Chatham Harbor Capital Management. I've known Chris for years and while we miss seeing each other at investor conferences around the country, we'll settle for a fun chat via Zoom for the pod. We continue the conversation we started on The Investors Roundtable, called, "MicroCap Due Diligence in the Vir...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Chris Bloomstran. He is the President and CIO of Semper Augustus Investments Group. Chris is an absolute legend in value investing circles and I'm really thankful for the privilege to speak with him, let alone him spending 2.5 hours with me answering questions. And not just any questions, your questions you sent in on Twitter. It was of...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Mark Jones. He is the Fund Manager at Pragmatic Capital Management. I recently came across Mark's interview with SumZero and, somehow, missed his fantastic interview on Toby's Acquirer's Podcast back in March 2019. I listened to both and thought this person needs to be on more shows to share his insights, and let's start here. I mean, h...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Conor MacNeil. He is the Owner of the Investment Talk Newsletter and known as @InvestmentTalkk on Twitter. For a while, Conor was anonymous on Twitter, and only very recently changed up his marketing strategy. He has developed quite a following since starting his Twitter account in February 2020, and launched his newsletter in May 2020....

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Brandon Beylo. He is the Host of the Value Hive Podcast and Research Analyst at Macro Ops. I've known Brandon for a while now, and it was long overdue to have him on the show. He's incredibly passionate about investing and that comes through in all his endeavors via the podcast and his work at Macro Ops. As a guest on his show, I saw th...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Jeff Moore. He is a Full-time investor in both real estate and equities, and the Editor of Ragnar is a Pirate blog. I've been following Jeff for a long time now, and stoked to have him on the pod, and shout out to Richard Sosa for saying that Jeff has some great investing stories. Don't mean to spoil anything, but he shares a few. We al...

For this episode of The Investors Roundtable (#39), we have a jam packed all-star roster ready to discuss being a Contrarian Investor. I believe all successful investors are contrarians to one degree or another, however, having a contrarian mindset is easier said than done. We've talked about contrarianism on many episodes on Planet MicroCap and there's many ways to not just be a successful invest...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Dominique Mielle. She is the Author of the upcoming book, "Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds", which will be coming out on September 7, 2021. Dominique's upcoming book is a memoir about her time working at Canyon Partners, which at the time was a small, little-known hedge fund, and over the span of two decad...

For this episode of The Investors Roundtable (#38), we chat the rise in commodities prices. Mainstream financial media outlets are now finally starting to talk about this phenomenon as it has been affecting all aspects of the economy. The goal here is to better understand why this is taking place - is it simply a supply / demand issue that'll be resolved once the demand lessons as the world contin...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Thomas Braziel. He is the Founder and CIO of 507 Capital. The MicroCap universe, believe or not, is not huge (Shocker, I know), but so many of our guests said I should meet Thomas Braziel, he looks at the weirdest of the weird, the most out there ideas. Luckily, Tom has joined me on several The Investors Roundtable episodes, and we're f...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Frank Holmes. He is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer at U.S. Global Investors, GROW on NASDAQ, and Chairman of the Board of HIVE Blockchain Technologies, HIVE on TSX Venture and HVBTF on the OTCQX. I've known and interviewed Frank for a long time now, so featuring him on the pod is long overdue. But the timing couldn't be better as...

For this episode of The Investors Roundtable (#37), we chat about what investing in a Post-Pandemic world looks like. Everything from re-opening plays, how various industries have changed, and most importantly, and what our panel of investors are looking right now. While the light is as bright as ever as exit the dark COVID-19 tunnel, we felt it was important to take stock (no pun intended) of wha...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Ben Claremon and Eugene Robin, Principal Portfolio Manager and Principal Research Analyst at Cove Street Capital. When I chatted with Ben last year for Episode 135, he told me about his colleague, Eugene, who has some great MicroCap stories to tell. So, I thought it would be fun to have them both on to chat about all things MicroCap. Pl...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Shana Sissel. She is the CIO at Spotlight Asset Group, and Co-host of "The Black Swans" podcast. I had been following Shana on Twitter for a while now, caught her various TV appearances, and I wanted to chat with her further about her background, where her instincts came from for investing, her strategy and much more. In particular, I f...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Neil Cataldi. He is the Principal at Blueprint Capital Management. This interview is a long time in the making, and I'm so stoked we were finally able to make this happen. If you love microcaps, heck, even have the smallest, tacit interest in microcaps, you will want to hear my chat with Neil. He's a true, blue microcapper, through and...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Guy Spier, Managing Partner and Principal at Aquamarine Capital, and the Author of, "The Education of a Value Investor." We were introduced by Matthew Peterson, Managing Partner at Peterson Capital Management, a great friend and joined me on the pod for Episode 133 - definitely check that out. I've known about Guy for a long time, and c...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I’m sharing with you the MicroCap Graduation Series: Kurt Sorschak, Chairman and CEO of Xebec Adsorption (TSX: XBC). In 2019, I started a series on the podcast called the "MicroCap Graduation Series", the goal is to portray a full picture of the Micro-, Nano-cap space – from learning strategies to help you become a successful investor and to show th...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I’m sharing with you the MicroCap Graduation Series: Hamed Shahbazi, Chairman and CEO of WELL Health Technologies (TSX: WELL). In 2019, I started a series on the podcast called the "MicroCap Graduation Series", the goal is to portray a full picture of the Micro-, Nano-cap space – from learning strategies to help you become a successful investor and...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I’m sharing with you the Planet MicroCap Podcast / Value After Hours: Crossover Event with Special Guest, Ian Cassel. I've been wanting to do a crossover event that would rival Avengers: Endgame, and I think we did just that. In all seriousness, I'm a huge fan of Tobias' podcast, Acquirers Podcast, as well as his weekly chats with Bill Brewster and...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Julia Carreon. She is a longtime digital executive in financial services who now specializes in GenZ. I'm a firm believer that as investors, business owners, evaluators of businesses, no question about it, you want to understand your investments' customer base, and as business owners, your customer. As part of a generation, millennials,...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Ethan Tucker. He is the Editor of The GARP Investor blog at TheGarpInvestor.com , and better known as @TheGarpInvestor on Twitter. It was my first time meeting Ethan after following him for some time on Twitter, and we chat about all things GARP investing. Ethan also works with his family in a commercial real estate business and we chat...

For this episode of The Investors Roundtable (#36), we chat about a topic that, frankly, I don't know very much about: Technical Analysis and Trading. Actually, the first time I ever chatted with Kevin Shea was about how he uses "TA" as part of his MicroCap investing strategy. We decided to take the conversation to the next level and discuss whether or not you can have "TA" as part of your fundame...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Ted Seides. He is the Author of the new book, titled, "Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest", and Host of the very popular podcast, "Capital Allocators with Ted Seides". I've been a fan of Ted's show for a long time, and was grateful for the opportunity to learn a bit more about his background and new...

This episode of The Investors Roundtable (#35) is inspired by one of my favorite investing books of all time, The Intelligent Fanatics (all three books in the series), which is about how great leaders build sustainable businesses. Our panelists all have years and years of investing experience focused on identifying great companies early, and today, they share their knowledge how they've gone about...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Jim Royal. He is the Author of the new book, titled, "The Zen of Thrift Conversions: How to Turn Hidden Bank Stocks into Big Gains." Jim and his book were recommended by one of our listeners, thank you Gunnar, and I'm so stoked he was. I had never even heard of Thrift Conversions before this conversation, and that's saying a lot living...