value and opportunity

The Brooklyn Investor with an long all-round post and another one on Bubbles

The “Made in Japan” Substack with a nice guide to get started in the Japanese stock market

A great summary from the Latticework 2025 conference with various “Value Investing Legends”

The French Focus Investing Substack with a nice deep dive into Safran

The current LLM’s models do not think highly of Private Equity as an Asset Class

A nice and easy CEO checklist from the Dutch Investors Substack

Thomas Puyo on why Argentina is not doing much better economically

Finally, 5X leveraged single Stock ETFs are available

The maybe most consistent financial blog out there, Abnormal Returns, celebrated it’s 20th Birthday this week.

Another OG, 20 Year Blogger, Eddie Elfenbein, has been on the Meb Faber Podcast

Good Morningstar article on “Performance Shenanigans” of Private Equity Secondary Funds

Liquid Air Energy storage is a very interesting concept

For some strange reason, horizontal paintings trade at a (significant) discount to vertical ones

Govro from Wintergems dives even deeper into Alcohol Stocks 

Govro from WIntergems with a deep dive into Pernod Ricard’s brands

Interesting writeup on Wise Plc from Ennismore (h/t Govro)

The East72 Synasty Trust Quarterly letter is always worth reading (Exor, Swatch, Bolore, Man United)

The Flyover Stocks blog with a great post on why Management Integrity is so important

Interesting article on some high end Cooperage (Barrel making) operations and their issues

A very detailed deep dive on the worrying Capex Mania in AI/LLM land

John Hempton on “Crypto Bucket Shops”

Fantastic profile of Thomas Peterffy, the legendary founder of Interactive Brokers

Nice write-up on UK stock Johnson Matthey from the Modern Investing Substack

The Oracle of Oslo Substack on “sum-of-parts” play F.I.L.A. Spa 

Maynard Payton with a “Super Deep Dive” on FW Thorpe

A great summary of Andrej Kaparty’s LLM talk (Twitter/X link)

Bain’s 2025 Tech report is an interesting read
A critical look into the “Quantum Bubble 2.0” from the recommended Shorts & Squeezes Corner Substack

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