Author: Neil Rose, CFA

Neil says to understand Costco is to understand Regency Capital’s approach to stocks. It's a long term holding in a business that’s well-known but perhaps not fully understood: “Costco is not a retailer.”

Neil Rose offers some thoughts on what has been a “stealth bear market” as market averages have belied what’s happening to many stocks.

You may have recently received a notice from your brokerage regarding the “modified Dutch tender auction” from Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited.

We send you this important 40-minute chat where Arthur Mallet and I discuss all things macro and macro-investing. We address important concepts shaping Regency Capital’s approach to investing, the advantages and pitfalls of macro, and the evolution of my macro education.

After nearly 40 years of benign inflation, markets have long since written off inflation as a material risk. In fact, policymakers have been so successful at suppressing inflation, many investors and almost all economists only worry about deflation.

Arthur Mallet and Neil Rose (finally) sit down and reflect after six months building Regency Capital. They talk about the journey, lessons learned, surprises, and their business principles and motivations.

Stock prices are up double digits this year, with markets shrugging off the global pandemic and rising inflation. Most fixed-income (bond) indexes are slightly down year-to-date.

I can happily announce Kayla De Leon has joined Regency Capital as Director of Administration. Kayla comes to us from Northwestern Mutual where she was Operations Manager, leading and implementing numerous administrative and operational processes for the firm’s Hawaii office. 

I am thrilled to introduce you to the first hires at Regency Capital, two major talents I had the pleasure of working with at Cadinha & Co. In Arthur and Olina, I feel like I got my top “draft picks.”

recently read that it has never been easier to start a business nor harder to scale one. I don’t know about the latter, but over the past three weeks, I’ve found the former is absolutely true.

To state the obvious, 2020 was a year like no other. For me, in addition to dealing with a historic pandemic and wild, bipolar stock market—I turned 40. The birthday milestone with a Covid crisis predictably meant a lot reflection, contemplation, and circumspection.