Transcript
Introduction
Patrick
My guest today is past guest, Gavin Baker, the founder and CIO of the Atreides Management, LP. We discuss investing during a bear market and the major ways in which the COVID-19 outbreak has dramatically altered the investment landscape. Please enjoy my second conversation with Gavin Baker.
Why This Is Investing's Super Bowl
Gavin
You said this is an absolutely unprecedented market. Nothing other than '08/'09 really compares in my experience. And I did live through '00/'01/'02. And while that obviously had a much greater peak-to-trough decline, particularly for tech, the volatility was not what we saw in '08/09 and you can see that in the VIX. So, why is this kind of game seven of the NBA finals, the Super Bowl, the deciding match in the eSport's tournament? Valuation spreads within a sector between individual stocks are at all time highs. It was a four and a half standard deviation relative to the norm only a few days ago. I think today it's three and a half standard deviations. So, it's swinging around wildly.