
Most Gold ETF investors in India won’t notice this But HDFC just changed something structural. And the internet is getting it half right here is my full breakdown.
Meta awards RSUs/options to senior execs tied to aggressive share targets—signals confidence but risks dilution and execution. Trade insight: buy on confirmed pullbacks. 🔍 — Viktor Kopylov, PhD, CFA More insights: t.me/si14Kopylov
“They fired 8,500 employees in one morning ‘to protect the business.’ 24 hours later: record quarterly profit plus billions stock buyback. Translation: your job was the dividend. Who’s really getting protected here?

So far this week… *BlackRock* CEO: Tokenization could update plumbing of financial system. NYSE, world’s largest exchange, partnering w/ Securitize on tokenized securities markets. Nasdaq, 2nd largest exchange, partnering w/ Talos on crypto infrastructure. Paying attention? https://t.co/TWutTJMyhd

The March 2026 US Treasury 2-year yield hit 3.93%, up sharply from 3.45% last month. This is the highest yield since May 2025. TRUMP’S TARIFF WAR AND WAR ON IRAN ARE RATTLING BOND MARKETS. https://t.co/TfJWZRALwu
When B Books fail. I still remmember the GBPJPY trade of 2005-2006 like it was yesterday. I was working for FXCM whic was teh biggest retai dealer at the time and of course like dealers the delaing room was rarely offsetting risk...
Municipal Closed End Funds feeling the Rate complex heat of higher yields as well as credit risk pressures turning up.
Aave V4 reinvestment feature enables to sweep float liquidity into DAO-approved strategies such as lower risk hubs, sGHO or t-bills. Creating better capital efficiency for Aave.

This raises an important question -- namely how should we understand ongoing demand for Treasuries from private investors abroad? 1/ https://t.co/IVZNahIfEc
10Y treasury back to where it was at Trumps inauguration. Its increased almost 0.5% since the Iran war started in a sign that the market worries do the long term effects of Trump’s chaotic presidency. That makes mortgages more expensive. 1Y...

Ares: 11.6% redemption requests. Honored 5%. Called it “aligned with the best interests of all stakeholders.” The stakeholders who wanted their money back might define “best interests” differently.

Update: 10y UST yields (blue, RS1) USDJPY*oil (red, LS) USDCNY*oil (green, RS2) Hormuz is still closed; China still has several years of oil inventories; 10y UST yields are ~20-30 bps from triggering a US & global debt spiral. What happens first? Let's watch. https://t.co/ixdOHnatCg

“Today’s 2 yr auction was terrible:” @pboockvar The bid-to-cover ratio was the weakest since May 2024 and dealers got stuck with the largest amount since October 2022. Traders are having a hard time pricing Fed policy as oil prices swing...

I never found a way to adopt the old version of Perplexity in my investment process, but the things you can one-shot in Perplexity Computer are mind bogglingly good, and it has become a daily driver for me (for the...

Help me out here. Doesn't Canal+ $CAN looks pretty mispriced right now. The market is basically valuing MultiChoice (plus all the expected synergies) at less than zero. MultiChoice is already profitable and Canal+ is targeting €400m in annual synergies over the...

Robin Energy $RBNE Announced has commenced a self-tender offer to purchase up to 1,000,000 shares. https://t.co/kGw8Y2ZS1J
The damage Trump has done to the integrity of financial markets is one of the biggest stains of this entire administration. The deregulation and financial market innovation are positive but they don't need to come at the expense of rampant...
Interesting nugget in the $ARES ASIF letter, detailing who the redeemers were (11.6% of shares outstanding) ‘The majority of repurchase requests were made by a limited number of family offices and smaller institutions in select geographies who represent less than...

“Cheapest valuation in years” … in 3 years Notice the chart “history” as well. https://t.co/2WLNIb2E8B
You can run, but you can't hide: ECB to Start Fresh Checks on Banks’ Exposure to Private Credit https://t.co/nEqJE6yYDf

"When we map recent developments onto our Valuation vs Profitability framework, we can see that the market is now trading more than one standard deviation below its long-term trend." -Duality Research
#FEVR solid results although UK still a struggle and Tax issue around glass 'packaging' (more useless government nonsense). Cash £91.1m (down a bit after Dividends and Buybacks). In line for coming year.

🔺 The "Vanguard Moment" for Crypto? Not quite. Most investors treat crypto like equities, but the data tells a different story. If you’re trying to build a crypto index that actually beats Bitcoin, you’re fighting a structural uphill battle. Delve into...

The circular relationships within the private credit ecosystem are fascinating. For example, Cliffwater invests in Carlyle's private credit fund. On the other end, Carlyle's private credit fund lends to Cliffwater (first lien loan shown below). So it appears that ultimately, Cliffwater is lending...
Of course assets would have to be pledged as collateral for any borrowings to meet redemptions, under this thought experiment. Doubtful the lenders would accept anything other than the “best” collateral. Think about it.
If you invest $10,000 today, how much of that actually gets invested after all charges? If the answer isn't close to $10,000, you should understand why. One client found out she'd been paying a 2% upfront sales charge every time she...
The hope of a short-end to the war on Iran sees the Fed funds futures market swing back to a (small chance) of a cut this year--2 bp--. It was around 7 bp of tightening before the weekend and 61...

Why are there so many redemption requests for private credit funds? Many reasons The biggest one in the wealth management space is an asset-liability-expectations mismatch in an illiquid fund structure Do you blame the advisor or the investor? https://t.co/mHPWByumnV https://t.co/ByuxkZ57Pv
I am at a stage in life where my main objective is to pass along to others the principles I have learned over the last 60 years that have helped me and that I think can help others. I believe...
a16z made a 312x return on Instagram. $250k invested. $78 million returned. In under 2 years (!) And it 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 didn't matter. a16z had raised over $1B+ across its funds. At $250k checks, they'd need 12+ Instagrams just to break even. One of...
Roboadvisors: set it and forget it Agentic finance: set it and it never forgets The difference is memory, context, and execution across protocols
Very Big Volume in Treasury Complex. Dimes (UST Classic 10 Yr Note Futures) have traded over 3.5 Million Contracts as of 1:40 pm EST.
The thing to look at in biotech is your reagent costs as a % of your total research spending - inclusive of lab space, EHS, equipment maintenance, lab labor costs, etc. Lab data is the concrete output of biotech...
Most SaaS finance teams are still working with delayed metrics… - Closing the books weeks after month-end - Reporting shaky metrics and data - And stitching everything together in spreadsheets That doesn’t scale. Tomorrow, I’m joined by NetSuite to break...

LT USTs are now a "risk-on" asset: 10y UST yields UP on risk-off, DOWN on risk-on. This is the price action you would expect when 37% of net issuance of UST notes & bonds since 2022 have been bought by "Cayman...

Treasury bears tried to claw back after the 705am ET yield plunge, but the 2yr yield is back on the session lows... down 10bps to 3.81% https://t.co/Cq2pe8M3wf

This is a US Treasury auction schedule and it’s actually a liquidity map in disguise. Here’s the simple breakdown:

One budget. Three jobs: set targets, reflect reality, and allocate resources. Pieter van Loosbroek asks: Is the issue really discipline—or budget design? 🔗 Read here: https://t.co/t2jvTdo9Fq #fpatrends #planning #budgeting https://t.co/NqZNGPdDAK

HEDGE FUNDS and other money managers purchased the equivalent of 120 billion cubic feet (bcf) in the two major gas futures and options contracts based on prices at Henry Hub in Louisiana over the seven days ending on March 17....

Gilts face worst month since Liz Truss as oil spike jolts UK market https://t.co/hvaQFGeXXa via @greg_ritchie https://t.co/K33eBm9D5V
New to the name... why have multiples continued to compress since IPO? 13x next years earnings $DLO
The re-Post Officication of telecoms was not something I expected to read this morning: Poste Italiane launches €10.8bn bid for Telecom Italia via @FT https://t.co/gR3vmnrlkX

BofA: Weaker stock prices were behind the jump in share buybacks and M&A spending in 2015 and 2018. https://t.co/zOxaox8YSB

The Financial Times’ Katie Martin: “It is hard, in that environment, to pick the market moves that really matter. This week’s wild ride in UK government bonds is, I think, one of them. It is an early warning sign of...
Oh no! US airlines are no longer hedged against oil price shocks. Now we will all be paying in higher fares. Just like PJM states who didn't hedge against the recent increase. And California in 2000-2001. Hindsight is 20-20 but...
1/4 Yesterday I posted the thread below arguing that the market is repricing an inflation shock, not a recession scare. 10-year yields are rising, bond volatility is exploding, inflation expectations are jumping, and Fed pricing has swung from cuts toward hikes. Follow up...
What’s behind the UK’s £30bn share buyback boom? - The Times and The Sunday Times https://t.co/ajOCo5YkMa
I think this is the earliest I’ve ever finished my taxes. BTW if you have bookkeeping chops, you can ditch Intuit products and just use open source GnuCash. It’s free.
Excel has checkboxes. Most finance teams have no idea. Here's what they're missing. Not filters. Not dropdowns. Checkboxes. Click a box. Dashboard updates. That's it. Sounds simple because it is. Let me show you two dashboards where this actually matters. First one. Comparison Dashboard. Check...
This is maybe not this week or even next month, but this is a failed auction waiting to happen. #TreasurySupply