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Practical analysis for investment professionals

Managing Client Fear: The Cognitive Skill Every Financial Advisor Should Master

A simple cognitive trick helps advisors reframe client fear, restore perspective, and guide decisions grounded in long-term goals.

How to Value Digital Tokens: A 5-Step Fair Value Framework

How financial analysts can approach digital asset valuation through a structured, five-step fair value framework.

From Risk to Resilience: What Finance Can Learn from the Futures

From forecasting to foresight: how scenario thinking enhances risk awareness and long-term resilience in finance.

Mind the Cycle: From Macro Shifts to Portfolio Plays 

Markets move on change, not levels. Spot shifts in growth, inflation, and liquidity early to stay ahead of the global cycle.

Private Credit Secondaries: From Niche Strategy to Core Portfolio Tool

Private credit’s resale market is booming. Secondaries offer liquidity but reveal growing strain in traditional exits.

Private Markets: Why Retail Investors Should Stay Away

Retail access to private markets is growing, but opacity, illiquidity, and weak governance raise serious concerns for investors.

From Sharpe to Pedersen: Why Active Management Isn’t Zero-Sum After All

Sharpe’s arithmetic explained markets at rest. Pedersen’s model shows markets in motion and how active management creates real economic value.

Book Review: On Progress and Prosperity

A collection of witty insightful essays by Larry Siegel explore progress, investing, and the ideas shaping modern economics.

Design Beats Luck: How AI Taxonomy Can Help Investment Firms Evolve

Without an AI taxonomy, investment firms risk overrelying on agentic AI and underutilizing it for optimal capital allocation.

China Inc. Returns: What’s Driving HKEX’s Boom

Chinese Mainland firms shift from Wall Street to HKEX as reforms, delistings, and policy alignment drive record listings and new investor access.