value and opportunity

Interesting deep dive into the London Stock Exchange Group and its current problems

Already a few weeks ago, Rob Vinall published a very detailed 6M letter including a post mortem of Ryman

OpenAI has released interesting usage data for ChatGPT

The Valuelytica Substack (for some reason) backtested my own old BOSS Score method

Streaming services are jacking up prices on an ongoing basis without delivering more value 

Again, in 2025, Momentum investing is the way to gain Alpha (for the time being)

Secret Sauce Investing Substack with a deep dive into Novo Nordisk

Microsoft has analyzed which business activities are easiest performed by AI (FT Link)

Great paper from AQR analyzing that “Buffer funds” using options to “improve” the risk return of stock portfolios underperform against simple stock & cash alternatives

Surprisingly, alcohol consumption has dropped most among Republican voters in the US. 

Noise Cancelling is the new sunscreen

An interesting glimpse into the past when some people thought that the Sony Walkman was a grave danger to humanity

And a look even further back: 1910, the year the Modern World lost it’s mind

Thomas Pueyo tries to answer the question why “Moskow is so weird”.

The “Mr. Market Miscalculates” Substack does a very decent “monthly recap” post. I really like this format.

The “Secret Sauce Investing” Substack with a decent post on the Global Spirits industry

Interesting Podcast with Dan Rasmussen from Verdad on Private Equity as a liquidity trap

Some deep thoughts on the role of a repeatable process in investing and other areas

Diet Sodas are anything but clearly not healthy

Richard Beddard on a few UK stocks including Mortgage Advice Bureau

Klement on Investing with an interesting post on the sources of negative alpha for active stock funds (hint: Do not time the market)

Ben Thompson (Stratechery) thinks that “community” is to only answer for content creators in the age of AI

Rubicon Stockpicker 6M report with some interesting new positions (Novem, Stratec, Hgears update)

Verdad Capital on increasing buybacks and dividends in Japan

An interesting pitch on an GLP-1 “stock basket” (Novo etc.)

Plus a pretty decent analysis if GLP-1 is indeed a wonder drug or not

Even more than 100 years ago, price momentum seems to have been a relevant factor in stock investing

A recent paper on low volatility stock alpha 

A great deep dive into the messy situation at Vivendi with some fascinating details on French Corporate Governance

Very interesting FT Alphaville deep dive on highly secretive PC Gaming platform Valve/Steam

Clarke Square Capital pitch on Grupa Pracuj, a classified player from Poland

Partners Fund (formerly known as TGV Partners) with its 10 year anniversary letter to investors

Accountants might be safe for a while from being replaced by an LLM (Twitter thread)

An optimistic report on Spain as a country

The Private Equity industry keeps innovating: They now invented “Continuation vehicles Squared” that invest into….other Continuation Vehicles.

Some (deep) thoughts on the current AI Datacenter Capex boom

Must read: The FT has a fantastic (free) article on the regulatory Shenanigans that Apollo, KKR & Co play with their Life Insurance operations

As an equity analyst competing against AI, the best strategy to stay relevant seems to be to look where little information is available on the web

The DB_Silver_Fox substack with a great write-up on Bossard from Switzerland

The “No deep dives” Substack with an interesting write-up of Belgian company Bekaert

A pretty comprehensive presentation from Drum Hill Partners why Private Investors might want to stay away from Private Equity & Co

Whenever Andrej Karpathy has something to say about AI, you should listen. Programming 3.0 is a great concept.: Slides, Youtube

Great write-up on how Booking.com became the behemoth it is right now

Andrej Karpathy on the opportunities and dangers of the new AI Video generation tools

David Einhorn pitches Lanxess at the Sohn conference

BCG with an interesting report on investment opportunities in Climate Resilience & Adaptation

The Midyear Private Equity report from Bain shows how PE firms have been “liberated from exit options”

The “Patient Capital” Substack with a book review of “The Nvidia Way”

Richard Beddard with short reviews of a few UK contrarian stocks

Outside the US, Value Investing seems to be still working according to Morningstar

AI “Pioneer” Klarna paddles back on AI use for customer service

Highly recommended: Conversation between Nikolai Tengen and legendary investor Chris Hohn (TCI)

Wintergems has 3 new positions. I do like the Vintage year/Cohort approach a lot.

The “Wonder Stock” Substack has a great write-up on UK smallcap Kitwave

Arranging portfolio companies like players on a football tactic screen is a very nice idea

Robin’s Substack on Misitano & Stracuzzi, a potential “Mini Robertet” from Sicilly 

Behind the Balance Sheet with (among other stuff) a deep dive into the catastrophic Walgreen & Boots take-over

The largest Battery company of the world, CATL, is going public in HongKong

The “Top 40 UK dividend stocks” list is a good starting point for dividend fans

A pretty pessimistic take on the future of Google’s search business from a former employee

Large language models are really hard to understand

For Offshore Wind farms, the so called “wake effect” can be quite relevant

Interesting article on Mytheresa’s CEO and their approach to online luxury shopping

Antti Ilmanen (AQR) with an interesting paper on return expectations