Friday links: securing the bag
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
3 weeks ago
2 MIN READ
Markets
- What’s going on with silver? (capitalspectator.com)
- The case for rotating into real world companies. (latticework.com)
Quant stuff
- Renaissance Technologies’ public funds have had a volatile year. (wsj.com)
- 2025 saw big performance divergences among quant funds. (ft.com)
Fund management
- Wealthfront ($WLTH) is now public. (barrons.com)
- First Eagle Investments to acquire Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. ($DHIL). (investing.com)
- How Avantis Investors gathered $100 billion in AUM in six years. (riabiz.com)
- Fidelity is expanding access to tax loss harvesting tools. (thinkadvisor.com)
Venture capital
- Big seed rounds saw a surge in 2025. (news.crunchbase.com)
- VC-backed startup founder age is steadily increasing. (tomtunguz.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: learning the wrong lessons. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: learning something new. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- 26 big ideas from 2025 including ‘The accelerated decline of fertility among rich countries is going to have some fascinating global implications.’ (derekthompson.org)
- Insights from Colin Woodard’s new book, “Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America.” (nextbigideaclub.com)
- A review of Vanessa S. Williamson’s new book, “The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History.” (npr.org)
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