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Wednesday, 2 October, 2024

Investing in funds
Smart people prefer passive
Everyone loves having their priors confirmed
Wednesday, 2 October, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Sand; Internet Archive; US political polarisation; sovereign debt reform; books; and main character syndrome
Wednesday, 2 October, 2024

Style
Cut a figure (while stirring emotions) in our new ‘Outsize Cut’ shirt
Rate expectations
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

Private equity
Apollo is now using memes to diss private equity rivals
We’re not gonna lie, we love it
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

Media
Carl Icahn’s cone of silence
The first rule of working for Icahn: do not talk about working for Icahn
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

Technology sector
A test case of the AI frenzy
Cerebras Systems needs a dose of initial public scepticism
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

Asia-Pacific equities
Could the balloon shooting have taken the gas out of Chinese stocks?
Inflated expectations, blown away, losing altitude, full of hot air, free float; pump-and-dump, strings attached, etc
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

Retail & Consumer industry
Walmart’s terrible, horrible, no good, very badly timed JD.com block trade
The market giveth, and the market taketh away
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Social security; UMich; China; sports betting apps; SoftBank; AI; research fraud; griefbots; and scenes from a nerd quiz
Monday, 30 September, 2024

White collar crime
Deadlines, schmeadlines
Wall Street regulator Finra has yet to respond to questions about its dwindling fines
Monday, 30 September, 2024

Global Economy
Is Harris vs Trump impacting the economy?
All the uncertainty — in five charts
Monday, 30 September, 2024

And the winner isn’t . . .
No shirt
Monday, 30 September, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Public disorder; liquidity; real wage growth; AI; The London Standard; bicycle physics; Greta Thunberg; AI; and recipes
Monday, 30 September, 2024

Watches
What does Trump’s $100k watch tell us about the future of luxury goods?
Think like a tourbillonaire
Friday, 27 September, 2024

Just Eat Takeaway
Food delivery companies’ kinky shift of gear
The Joy of Snacks
Friday, 27 September, 2024

FTAV’s Friday charts quiz
Louis Bachartlier
Friday, 27 September, 2024

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How would you have fared?
Friday, 27 September, 2024

US Dollar
The next carry trade to blow up?
When corporate treasurers take an FX punt
Friday, 27 September, 2024

Grifols SA
Short seller in market abuse probe over research on alleged market abuser, which also faces probe
The skew-whiff scales of Spanish justice
Friday, 27 September, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Space-time; Bermuda insurance; Europa life search; WordPress vs WordPress
Thursday, 26 September, 2024

A crystal ball wouldn’t make most of us rich
Time travel and pick up a sports almanac instead
Thursday, 26 September, 2024

Private equity
Private equity just smashed another record
Recapping and backslapping
Thursday, 26 September, 2024

Emerging markets
FTAV’s further reading
Fake Bridgerton ball; online scams; UK PE; Moo Deng
Wednesday, 25 September, 2024

European companies
Mario Draghi is wrong about European startups
In a very, very narrow sense
Wednesday, 25 September, 2024

Financial services
A taxonomy of sovereign wealth funds
Would a state pool of money by any other name smell as sweet?

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