Matthew Fist, Portfolio Manager of the Firetrail Small Cap fund, breaks down how he’s making sense of markets, his preference to focus on bottom-up fundamentals in times of macro volatility, and how he’s positioning the fund across commodities, including detailed thoughts on a host of gold, copper, lithium and uranium miners.

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Chapters:

(0:00) Introduction

(3:01) How to feel about markets right now

(11:58) Impact of a trade war?

(15:45) Lithium reflections from China visit

(19:23) Lithium exposure interest

(22:58) GOLD bullishness

(24:20) Genesis (GMD)

(30:46) Greatland Gold (GGP)

(34:54) PRU, WAF

(36:23) Management and Balance sheet

(40:27) Bellevue (BGL) and Spartan (SPR)

(45:00) Gorilla Gold (GG8)

(46:19) AIC Mines (A1M) and Sandfire (SFR)

(49:23) Aurelia (AMI)

(50:54) Cobar consolidation? (PEX)

(52:24) Nexgen (NXG)

(56:16) Boss (BOE) and Paladin (PDN)

(59:12) Met coal and Whitehaven (WHC)

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