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ETFs keep coming for private markets

The spaghetti cannon shoots again

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Nvidia is a single-stock active management wrecking ball

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Starling: a bank built on ‘shockingly lax’ customer checks

Senior management at UK’s premier Covid loan-arranger neobank were worse than useless, FCA finds

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Smart people prefer passive

Everyone loves having their priors confirmed

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Private equity
Apollo is now using memes to diss private equity rivals

We’re not gonna lie, we love it

Media
Carl Icahn’s cone of silence

The first rule of working for Icahn: do not talk about working for Icahn

Technology sector
A test case of the AI frenzy

Cerebras Systems needs a dose of initial public scepticism

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

Retail & Consumer industry
Walmart’s terrible, horrible, no good, very badly timed JD.com block trade

The market giveth, and the market taketh away

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