The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing · The Idea Farm

Carl Kawaja – Navigating the Investment Landscape: AI, Tariffs, Sports Gambling & More| #580

·1 hr 6 min·5 clips
Carl Kawaja reveals how his grandmother's Caribbean store taught him to invest like selling shoes and bolts of cloth.
Meb Faber interviews Carl Kawaja, a portfolio manager at Capital Group, about his investment philosophy shaped by his grandmother's store, current opportunities in European markets and AI, and insights on sports gambling and biotech. They discuss navigating tariffs, long-term compounding, and techniques for evaluating companies.

As heard by us

A veteran portfolio manager weighs business durability against tariff pressure.

Carl Kawaja reads as a manager who cares more about staying power than the day's noise. Meb keeps pulling him toward tariffs and business quality, and Kawaja's best stretches come when he gets concrete about what is still worth owning when conditions shift.

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Why you'd press play

You want a veteran portfolio manager's read on how tariffs change the math.

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