value investing with patience, valuation discipline, and hard-asset hedging
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Jonathan Wellum appears to be a long-time Canadian investment manager and advisor with a strong valuation- and temperament-driven approach. In the transcript, he emphasizes emotional discipline, long-term thinking, and buying quality businesses when prices fall if fundamentals have not deteriorated. External items also show him publicly tied to Rocklinc Investment Partners and speaking frequently in a market-commentary / investor-education style.
Wellum’s recurring economic worldview is broadly classical value investing with a strong behavioral overlay: markets are often noisy in the short run, prices can diverge from business value, and volatility is an opportunity rather than a risk in itself when fundamentals remain intact. He repeatedly stresses patience, margin of safety, and disciplined valuation work over reactionary trading. He also appears inclined toward real assets and gold-related themes, suggesting a preference for hard assets and skepticism toward debt-heavy or unstable financial environments. Overall, his framing is pro-market but cautious, emphasizing capital preservation, business quality, and emotional restraint.
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Preview:Jonathan Wellum discusses sell discipline for long-term value investors, arguing the default posture should be "own it forever" unless one of three conditions triggers a sale: deteriorating fundamentals, significant overvaluation, or a clearly better opportunity. He emphasizes partial sales/trimming over binary all-or-nothing decisions, warns against letting tax aversion drive irrational hold decisions, and advises investors to value individual stocks on their own intrinsic merit rather than reacting to overall market levels. The conversation is framed around practical, behavioral investor psychology rather than macro calls.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that the current AI/tech boom looks like a classic overinvestment cycle: strong businesses may exist, but prices and expectations are already extremely high, so investors should be cautious, value-focused, and patient. He contrasts today’s IPO and AI enthusiasm with the late-1990s internet bubble, warns that many late-stage IPOs may suffer post-listing pressure and multi-year drawdowns, and says value investing still works when applied to durable businesses with moats, cash flows, and understandable economics.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues the market is entering a more volatile phase because valuations are stretched, macro stresses are rising, and the current environment is forcing investors to separate hype from durable cash flows. He is constructive on the Trump administration’s pro-growth policies, skeptical that strong jobs data automatically means inflation, and believes the bigger issue is debt-driven currency debasement and capital misallocation risk in overheated AI/hyperscaler themes. His preferred posture is defensive but not fully out of risk assets: own quality, keep liquidity, avoid chasing frothy IPOs, and favor underowned areas like insurers, commodity producers, gold, silver, uranium, and select infrastructure/picks-and-shovels names.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that the current AI/capital-expenditure boom is being priced as if capital were still free, and that many hyperscaler and mega-cap tech investments will fail to earn adequate returns. He prefers businesses with moats, strong balance sheets, durable cash flow, and reasonable valuations, and he extends that preference into hard assets and resource-linked ideas like gold, silver, copper, uranium, and insurers.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that spending less than you make is a practical source of financial optionality: it lowers stress, avoids debt, and lets compounding work. He frames frugality as disciplined capital allocation rather than deprivation.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that index funds and passive ETFs have become too crowded, weakening price discovery and creating opportunities for active stock pickers with high active share. He recommends focused portfolios, selective exposure to resilient businesses, and meaningful allocations to precious metals and certain commodities as hedges against debt, currency debasement, and supply shortages.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that during a 10–20% market drawdown advisors should stay disciplined: control emotions, revisit valuations, keep capital allocation balanced, and avoid unnecessary trading so compounding can work.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues for ignoring headline-driven trading and focusing on 3–5 year fundamentals. His core view is that the Iran war and broader geopolitics reinforce long-duration opportunities in North American energy, uranium, gold, silver, and select commodity-linked Canadian producers, while raising caution about banks and overextended macro assumptions.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues the market is vulnerable to a retrenchment driven by fundamentals: higher energy costs, more inflation, tighter rates, geopolitical disruption from the Iran war, and a heavily indebted global system. He recommends staying disciplined, trimming only if a position is oversized or speculative, and keeping a meaningful allocation to high-quality precious-metals and royalty businesses that he thinks remain attractively valued despite recent volatility.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum outlines six questions to ask before hiring a financial adviser: investment philosophy, fiduciary status, compensation/expenses, credentials, breadth of services, and communication style/frequency.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum says AI is disrupting markets unevenly, creating both real threats and selective value opportunities. He remains constructive on moat-protected businesses, energy/infrastructure, and gold, while warning that expensive markets, tariff noise, and large drawdown risk justify caution, cash, and discipline.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues the commodity space may be in a multi-year supercycle driven by deglobalization, AI/data-center buildout, robotics, energy demand, and long-running underinvestment. He urges investors to avoid leverage and speculation, focus on quality businesses and diversification, and use pullbacks to build positions rather than chase volatility.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that the right way to handle volatility is not to predict swings but to build a portfolio around competence, quality, margin of safety, diversification, and temperament. He says investors panic when they own things they do not understand, overpay for assets, concentrate too heavily, or expect unrealistic returns. He also says good advisors should continuously rebalance and adapt, because no portfolio is static.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues the rally in gold and silver is being driven by a deeper monetary and debt regime problem, not just speculative froth. He says the right response is not to chase the move, but to maintain or build exposure gradually, rebalance if overweight, and avoid low-quality miners.
Preview:This Wealthion market recap is a broad, multi-guest discussion arguing that the old passive, US-only playbook is breaking down in a more multipolar world. Jacob Shapiro and Marco Papic are the clearest macro voices: both see geopolitics, sovereignty, energy transition, and industrial policy as investable themes, with Latin America, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, and parts of Europe singled out as beneficiaries. Jonathan Wellum then shifts the conversation toward valuation discipline, saying the big AI/mega-cap names are expensive, but that investors can still participate through infrastructure, energy, royalty companies, insurance, and selected software and industrial names. The second half turns more explicitly bearish on the structure of the US economy and financial system. The speakers argue that fiscal deficits, not the Fed, are driving the economy; that monetary policy has become less effective because of debt; and that inflation may be tolerated because it helps manage the debt burden. Marc Faber adds a strong warning that markets are complacent, asset prices are stretched, and that investors should consider diversification across gold, bonds, cash, and non-dollar assets rather than relying on tech-heavy US portfolios. The tone is opinionated and thematic rather than data-heavy, with a recurring message that geopolitics, valuation, and capital allocation matter more now than they did during the last 30 years of globalization.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that 2025 confirmed two big themes: precious metals were far stronger than expected, and AI-linked equities became expensive very quickly. He stays constructive on the U.S. versus Canada, expects Trump-era policies and a likely dovish Fed to support growth, and remains heavily positioned in gold, silver, royalties, and select infrastructure/commodity names rather than the headline AI winners.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that Canada’s Liberal government has damaged growth, capital formation, and the Canadian dollar, and says the recent election was driven less by policy approval than by NDP collapse and Donald Trump-related backlash. He is also cautious on the US economy: growth is still positive but slowing, trade uncertainty is hitting freight, travel, housing, and guidance, and investors should keep liquidity, short-duration bonds, and precious metals exposure.
Preview:Adam Taggart interviews Jonathan Wellum about how he is positioning Rocklink for 2026. Wellum’s core message is cautious: he thinks broad U.S. and global equity indexes are expensive after several strong years, so he expects weaker or at best flat index performance next year and would prefer capital preservation over chasing momentum. He argues that the best opportunities are below the surface in undervalued businesses and sectors tied to durable trends such as AI infrastructure, industrials, insurance, energy, and precious metals.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that rising global debt, deficits, weak growth, and easier monetary policy will keep supporting precious metals. He says he remains constructive on gold and silver despite big gains, preferring to rotate within the sector toward better-valued royalty companies and selected miners rather than exit altogether. He is cautious on Bitcoin, skeptical on expensive mega-cap tech, and favors undervalued, cash-generative businesses—especially in the U.S.—over the crowded AI/mag-7 trade.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that today’s market is still too expensive for comfort, so Rocklink is staying disciplined, holding elevated cash, and favoring businesses with real moat, pricing power, and better valuation support. He is constructive on the U.S. relative to weaker global economies, but warns that debt, credit stress, and AI-driven valuation excess could lead to a reckoning in overhyped names.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues the U.S. is structurally stronger than Canada because it is attracting capital, cutting taxes/regulation, and encouraging production, while Canada is overregulated, overtaxed, and undermining its resource base. He is constructive on U.S. equities and banks, cautious on AI valuations, and strongly bullish on precious metals, especially gold and silver, as a hedge against persistent debt, inflation, and currency debasement.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that runaway sovereign debt, persistent deficits, weak growth outside the U.S., and underinvestment in resources are keeping fiat currencies under pressure and supporting a strong case for gold, silver, and select mining stocks. He also ties the precious-metals thesis to AI, data-center buildout, and the need for much more energy and electrical infrastructure, which should keep demand high for copper, silver, and other hard assets.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that value investing wins because it focuses on business fundamentals, valuation, patience, and tax efficiency rather than short-term price noise. The interview contrasts that discipline with day trading, momentum, and speculative behavior, while repeatedly using Buffett, Peter Lynch, and historical drawdowns to show why emotional trading often underperforms.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues the U.S. economy is slowing toward stall speed and that recession risk is rising, but he is not calling for an immediate collapse. His base case is that stretched valuations, debt, policy changes, and weaker growth could pressure stocks materially, while gold, silver, and selected hard-asset/industrial names remain his preferred hedges and opportunity set.
Preview:Adam Taggart interviews Jonathan Wellum about the breakout in gold and silver. Wellum says the move is being driven by a mix of fiscal/monetary stress, central bank buying, trade disruptions, de-dollarization, and rising retail/Western interest, and he believes the precious-metals bull market is still early rather than exhausted. He thinks the best opportunities now are shifting from the metals into quality royalty companies and eventually into quality miners, while warning that valuation, jurisdictional risk, and volatility still matter a lot.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum of Rocklink Investment Partners compares Canadian vs. US stock markets, highlighting the US market's overwhelming size (~$50T vs ~$2.5T), liquidity advantage, and tech dominance. Canada's TSX is heavily concentrated in resources (~30%) and financials (~31%), limiting diversification and driving structurally lower returns (6-7% vs. double-digit S&P). He advises US investors not to overlook Canadian gems — particularly in energy, royalties, and uranium — where quality companies trade at discounted valuations partly due to passive-flow neglect. He allocates ~60-65% US, remainder mostly Canada. Currency risk is significant: the CAD can swing 30-40% against the USD over cycles.
Preview:Jonathan Wellum argues that U.S. equity valuations are stretched, but he still likes the market selectively and remains invested. He is cautious on broad indexes, prefers bottom-up stock picking, and sees value in financials, royalty companies, infrastructure, and certain AI beneficiaries rather than expensive mega-caps like Nvidia. He is constructive on U.S. policy direction, skeptical of Fed central planning, and very negative on Canada’s growth model and bureaucratic approach.
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