Markets How major asset classes performed in August 2025. (capitalspectator.com) A look at the performance of European equities YTD. (mailchi.mp) Private assets The venture capital market is working through its overvaluation...

Quant stuff Some recent academic research including ‘Cross-Sectional Spillovers of Earnings Surprises and Asset Price Anomalies.’ (alphainacademia.substack.com) A round-up of recent white papers including ‘The Next Frontier in Private...

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In the current ‘AI Race’ environment between the US and China, the question often asked is who is ahead. In an ‘infinite game’ of tech waves like this AI Tech Wave, that question is academic. AI tech is going to change society globally, and take decades...

Markets The S&P 500 returned 2.03% in August 2025. (on.spdji.com) Retail investors are flexing their collective muscles. (wsj.com) Some performance charts that might surprise you. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Fund management Big fund inflows...

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Podcasts Josh Brown talks with Kevin Thompson of 9i Capital Group about how to best train young advisers. (youtube.com) Brendan Frazier talks with Shannon Harris, Managing Partner and an advisor at Ecclesiastes Wealth Partners, about values based...

We’re going to have to turn up the volume in AI compute, even beyond 11, as the popular Spinal Tap clip goes. And we’re seeing the reason in the current environment around pricing for AI beyond training of the LLM AI models. On the ‘inference side’ of the...

Private assets Even the best endowment managers are seeing disappointing private equity performance. (wsj.com) The track record of sovereign wealth funds isn’t great. (barrons.com) Wealthy investors are pouring money into private credit....

Here’s a preview of what we’ll cover this week:  Macro: The US Economy Shows Resilience Markets: How Is September For Markets?; NVIDIA’s Earnings Reaction Wasn’t Like-NVIDIA; Alibaba- Filling the NVIDIA Void; Small Caps In Action Digital Assets: FIS Bets...