Mike Wilson
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Mike Wilson reads as The Navigator through a layered, cycle-within-cycle framework, economic, business, and market rhythms stacked and cross-referenced, that demands continuous recalibration rather than static conviction. His insistence on rate-of-change over absolute levels gives him methodological bearings in turbulent conditions. What sharpens the archetype is the contrarian instinct beneath it.
“Again, you can't always be Sometimes to help them see around the corner, and they know that we're not afraid to help them look around the corner. Okay, whether it's bullish or bearish, it doesn't really matter. It's more of like, what's not priced right now? What is priced right now is a soft landing.”
“Correct. But when things are really confusing, like during COVID, for example, you had incredible value opportunities that popped up because nobody knew anything, including us. But we knew the price. And that was the main reason we got bullish in March of 2020 was that we were waiting for equity risk premiums to blow out, and they did.”
“To me, it's all just about the riddle. You're just trying to solve a giant puzzle. I mean, that's what makes markets so exciting. To me, it's the marrying, quite frankly, of macro and micro. So I have a deep background in micro, mainly in the TMT space. And then I developed this macro affinity starting in really 2009-10 in that role.”
“And then I built out that effort over the course of, I don't know, five, six years for every industry. And it was kind of like your team. And we built it from scratch. Now every firm has that role. So we were the original. We're the OG on that. And it was a very cohesive group of people. We were analysts. We were also traders.”
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