“We have offsets in the portfolio, so that we can benefit from rising interest rates. But we don’t base our thesis on it, meaning that even if interest rates don’t go up, the value that we see in the companies that we buy is high,” says Chaudhari. “What we do is we construct the portfolio so that in various economic scenarios, we have companies that have a tendency to benefit from those scenarios.”
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