{"id":4334,"date":"2025-02-17T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tresorcapital.nl\/the-10-holding-lessons-of-michael-gielkens\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:51:54","slug":"the-10-holding-lessons-of-michael-gielkens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tresorcapital.nl\/en\/the-10-holding-lessons-of-michael-gielkens\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 holding lessons of Michael Gielkens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, Tresor Capital partner Michael Gielkens gave a presentation for VFB trefpunt Limburg in Hasselt on holdings. On behalf of the website “De Kwaliteitsbelegger,” the Dutch-language counterpart of Compounding Quality by well-known investor Pieter Slegers, Willem Verstrepen attended the presentation. <\/span><\/p>\n

Pieter and Willem wrote a short report with ten holding classes on the website of The Quality Investor<\/span><\/a>, which we reproduce here with permission. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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Recently, Michael Gielkens<\/strong> gave a lecture on holdings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He is a friendly man with tons of experience in the stock market.<\/p>\n

Today, let’s look at Michael Gielkens’ ten holding lessons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What are Holdings?<\/h3>\n

Holdings are companies that invest in other (un)listed companies.<\/p>\n

Often they do not produce goods or services themselves. They make money by investing in other companies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just as you make money by investing in stocks, so does a holding company.<\/p>\n

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1. Holdings do better in the long run<\/h3>\n

Holdings create long-term shareholder value.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are two main reasons:<\/p>\n