Steven Romick
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Steven Romick reads as The Navigator because he charts across multiple outcome scenarios rather than steering toward a single fixed destination. At FPA Crescent, his explicit rejection of volatility as a risk proxy in favor of capital-structure resilience shows a leader reading terrain rather than trusting instrumentation. His framework, base-case viability, upside optionality, downside containment, is cartographic thinking applied to markets, probability mapped before capital moves, routes held open when conditions shift.
“We don't know what is going to happen. We create a range of outcomes, and we think that as we look at them, it's more appropriate to be more invested than not if you're looking out where the world's going to be five to ten years.”
“Volatility as a measure of risk is a bit silly. We try and create a portfolio that's robust to multiple outcomes, that doesn't go too hard one direction or another.”
“We invest across the capital structure with this goal of delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns. The investment in that business should be attractive in the base case and have upside optionality in the high case, and not get too badly hurt in the low case.”
Masters in Business: “Steven Romick on Portfolio Investments (Podcast)”
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