PM Chris Davis on the deep insights he gained from Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger on successful investing, the importance of stewardship, and “living a life in a web of deserved trust”

The U.S. equity market is characterized by extreme dispersion. Virtually all the gains in the last eight years have been concentrated in six stocks: the FAANGs plus Microsoft. Strip out those six stocks, and the S&P 494’s performance has been utterly mediocre, roughly equal to that of the rest of the world. Here to discuss the role that dispersion plays in fund management is Chris Davis.

The Davis Funds is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and has been owned by the Davis family for that entire period. In addition to that longevity, the Davis Funds is notable in that it has pursued the same, value-oriented, long-term investing discipline over that period. Chris Davis discusses the opportunities his team is pursuing in financial stocks, as well as his take on the three biggest issues facing the advisory profession: how to compete with digital advice platforms, the flow of funds from active to passive strategies, and ESG/SRI investing.