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| AI รber Alles, Gaping Holes, and Searching for the Right Valuations 05/08/23 Fortnightly |
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In addition to the headline items, dig into readings about shadow banks, direct indexing, the research settlement twenty years on, regulatory arbitrage, ESG debates, “BuyIRR Beware,” and more. |
| EPS Maximizers, Investment Beliefs, and Knowing Everything 04/24/23 Fortnightly |
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This edition of the Fortnightly features a few items about private equity, context on Silicon Valley Bank, and a peek in a black book about the new investment regime. Plus a wide range of other readings of interest. |
| Cognitive Diversity, a Whole Bunch of Risks, and a Secret Third Thing 04/10/23 Fortnightly |
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This edition explores risk-mitigating strategies, group effectiveness, investor psychology, the culture of busyness, and GPT coming to the investment world. But thatโs just a slice of whatโs here. |
| Anticipating Change (and Calibrating Confidence) 03/27/23 Fortnightly |
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The latest biweekly collection of curated articles runs the gamut from anomalies to Z-Scores (with M-Scores somewhere in the middle). Asset classes, organizations, people, and flux. |
| Investor Identities, Availability Cascades, and Unknown Unknowns 03/13/23 Fortnightly |
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It didn’t even take two weeks (since the last edition of the Fortnightly) for things to change in a big way. A bit about that, plus a wide-ranging set of reads about other important ideas in the ecosystem. |
| Managers, Machines, and the Conveyor Belt of Finance 02/27/23 Fortnightly |
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Included in this issue are readings about machine learning, meeting with asset managers, black swans, private equity, technical analysis, liquidity challenges, ESG, failures of due diligence, and much more. |
| Causal Factor Investing, Created Value Attribution, and Numbers That Lie 02/13/23 Fortnightly |
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In each Fortnightly, there’s something that will provide a new perspective that will be of value to you. Which of these many readings does so? |
| Gaslighting, Chatting with Machines, and the Biggest Change in Forty Years 12/19/22 Fortnightly |
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In advance of a break from the action, the Fortnightly crew has produced another edition packed full of great investment reads. |
| The Next Fracture, Structural Impediments, and Losing Track of Things 12/05/22 Fortnightly |
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Each edition of the Fortnightly is free to all, and full of great reads from around the investment ecosystem. |
| Responsible Due Diligence and Careful Decision Making (Just Kidding) 11/21/22 Fortnightly |
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The seismic events at FTX and Twitter, a hungry mouth to feed in the advice industry, the most important skill in finance, and many interesting investment reads. Plus, Stevie Wonder gives some great advice. |
| The Factor Zoo, an Industry in Flux, and Turning Water into Wine 11/07/22 Fortnightly |
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This edition includes writings about the circular economy, investing in political influence, a short primer on investment banks, investigating social investing sites, and many other intriguing stories. (And a puzzle from the art world.) |
| From Treat to Trick: A Tale of Two Octobers 10/24/22 Fortnightly |
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Private markets, hedge funds, passive investing, small caps, real estate, due diligence! Manager survival, trust, talent versus culture! And Penn Jillette!?! |
| Drawdowns, Changing Times, and Professionalism 10/10/22 Fortnightly |
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There’s something for everyone in this latest edition of ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ค๐ฐ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ’๐ด regular look at good reads from around the investment world. |
| Shock, Communication, and the Velocity of Learning 09/26/22 Fortnightly |
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From burned-out hedge fund managers to new standards of VC due diligence, crowded stocks, a Renaissance man, and an amazing set of podcasts too. Plus four feature topics and more. |
| Asset Classes, Strategies, Organizations, and Behavior 09/12/22 Fortnightly |
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This issue includes sections on liquid venture capital, fixed income, a new data alliance, family offices, portfolio manager attributes, plus a bumper crop of other readings. |
