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The subject of this address

This address writes about supply chain concentration, which is the part of an idea most likely to decide whether it works out. A finished machine can be assembled in a dozen countries; the reducer, the substrate or the lithography step inside it often cannot. We read the tiers below the household names, because that is where the pricing power sits and where a single plant outage becomes a sector problem rather than a company one.

The uncomfortable version of this is that a portfolio can hold thirty companies and depend on four factories. That is not visible in a holdings list and it does not show up in a sector breakdown, which is exactly why it is worth the work to find.

Concentration of that kind only becomes obvious after something has already gone wrong somewhere.

Which is a poor time to discover it, so the work is to find it while everything still looks fine and nobody is asking the question.

Where the practical work is

The practical work is overlap. What a fund like this holds that a core allocation does not already hold, how concentrated it is once you look through to the top names, and whether the exposure being bought is the exposure written on the label. Then geography, because components come from far fewer places than finished goods do, and a portfolio can be diversified by name and concentrated by country at once.