Founder & portfolio manager, Fin Capital Management
3 dated public stances tracked since 2025-09-17, most recently 2025-09-17. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Ben Finser's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Ben Finser is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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Raw direction-aware returns on public statements — long calls credited when the price rose, shorts when it fell, shorts capped at −100% — in a rising market this mostly measures who was long, not who has skill. Returns run from the stance date; calls are rarely closed publicly, so fixed 90-day / 180-day / 1-year horizons are used. A horizon shows only once it has fully matured, and only at 5+ scored stances. “% correct” is the share of those scored calls whose direction-aware return was positive at the horizon — in a rising market a bullish call is correct by default, so read it beside the market, not alone.
Scored calls
Every tracked call with at least one matured horizon: the rows behind the Returns
line above. A dash is a horizon that has not matured yet.
| Date | Name | Call | 90d | 180d | 1y |
|---|
| 2025-09-17 | SPX | bearish | -3.3% | -2.1% | -17.0% |
| 2025-09-17 | Japan Equities | bullish | +3.3% | +8.7% | +25.8% |
| 2025-09-17 | International Dev | bullish | +2.9% | +8.7% | +20.8% |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|
| International Dev | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-09-17 |
| Japan Equities | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-09-17 |
| SPX | 1 | | 1 bearish | 2025-09-17 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2025-09-17
International Dev
bullish
Planet MicroCap · video
~15,000 listed companies in developed markets outside the US are structurally undercovered — zero sell-side analysts, tiny trading volumes, no capital-markets culture — creating persistent mispricing that a fundamental investor can exploit by applying US…
“it's such a target-rich universe... I seem to never run out of finding really interesting little undiscovered companies”
90d +2.9% · 180d +8.7% · 1y +20.8%
Why International MicroCaps Are a Target-Rich Universe with Ben Finser, Fin Capital Management
2025-09-17
Japan Equities
bullish
Planet MicroCap · video
Japan's listed company count has doubled to match the US total while remaining deeply undercovered, with fragmented industries not yet consolidated like the US, improving corporate governance, and low-multiple quality companies beginning to attract…
“in Japan alone there are as many public companies as there are in the US”
90d +3.3% · 180d +8.7% · 1y +25.8%
Why International MicroCaps Are a Target-Rich Universe with Ben Finser, Fin Capital Management
2025-09-17
SPX
bearish
Planet MicroCap · video
US outperformance since the financial crisis is a cyclical phenomenon that has already far exceeded the historical 7–9 year average, while US equities now trade at a structural multiple premium to developed-market peers that is partly cyclical rather than…
“we're very long into this US outperformance theme... historically the average period has been 7 to 9 years and we've far exceeded that”
90d -3.3% · 180d -2.1% · 1y -17.0%
Why International MicroCaps Are a Target-Rich Universe with Ben Finser, Fin Capital Management
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