Wed.May 17, 2023

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120,000

The Reformed Broker

Just wanted to take a moment to recognize the incredible work my media and research teams have been doing to propel The Compound channel past 120,000 subscribers this month. And that 120k is just a fragment of the audience because almost everything we do on video is also on the audio podcast channels too. For those who are new to what we’re doing at the Compound YouTube channel each week, below is the schedule of w.

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Inflation Expectations Are Useless

The Big Picture

Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve spend a lot of time worrying about Inflation Expectations. They shouldn’t. Sentiment surveys in general are mostly useless (except at the extremes). They aren’t merely lagging, backward-looking indicators, but instead, tell you what the public experienced 3- 6 months ago. Beyond short-term extrapolation, they have little to no ability to provide insight into intermediate-term (6-12 months) inflation.

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Animal Spirits: The Only Game in Town

A Wealth of Common Sense

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by Global X ETFs: See here for more information on Global X ETFs suite of thematic strategies On today’s show, we discuss: Real estates lead as best investment shrinks, gold rises Investors are nervous – and that could support stocks There is nothing typical for stocks when the Fed stops raising rates Robinhood to launch 24-hour trading on weekdays in stocks and ETFs.

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M&A crackdown a ‘disaster’ for pharma sector, Pfizer executive warns

Financial Times M&A

Development chief raises worry over innovation after FTC sues to block Amgen-Horizon deal

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10 Wednesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My mid-week morning train reads: • The Rise of FTX, and Sam Bankman-Fried, Was a Great Story. Its Implosion Is Even Better. About a year after the author Michael Lewis began to shadow Bankman-Fried, the founder of the crypto exchange FTX, Bankman-Fried was arrested. As the story evolved, Lewis has had a front-row seat to the drama. ( New York Times ) • The Return to the Office Has Stalled : Offices remain half empty as companies settle into hybrid work plans. ( Wall Street Journal ) see also Is

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Rising tide for $1bn water start-up

Financial Times: Moral Money

Also in today’s newsletter, investors look to the next health crisis on the horizon

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The Private Debt and Commercial Real Estate Crash Nobody Sees?

Pension Pulse

Harriett Agnew and Eric Platt of the Financial Times report Oaktree’s Howard Marks warns of crunch time for private credit: Howard Marks, the co-founder of $172bn investment group Oaktree Capital Management, has warned that the boom in private credit will soon be tested as higher interest rates and slower economic growth heap pressure on corporate America.

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Advisor Pet Peeves

Integrity Financial Planning

We all have things that bother us. What kinds of things bother financial advisors like Brian? In this episode, Brian shares his biggest pet peeves in the financial industry, such as hidden fees, and how he advises his clients about them. But first, Brian answers a question from the mailbag from someone who doesn’t know what to do when selling an apartment building.

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The Financial Advisor’s Guide to Facebook

FMG

Facebook is one of, if not the most popular social media platforms of our time. With a staggering active user base of around 2.9 billion people worldwide , it’s no surprise to find that financial advisors are making use of the platform to engage with clients, market their business, and much more. All this makes Facebook a prime place for financial advisors to set up accounts and really start communicating with their audience.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Court Square Invests in Team Select

The Healthcare Investor

Court Square Capital Partners has made a strategic capital investment in Team Select Home Care, according to a news release. Team Select , based in Phoenix, Ariz., is a home care platform that provides care primarily to protected pediatric patient populations. Established in 2008, the company operates in 11 states. Court Square , based in New York, is a middle market private equity firm.

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Can biodiversity funds help investors protect wildlife?

Financial Times: Moral Money

The idea sounds good but the reality is complicated and unclear

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UBS details lower than expected $35bn gain from Credit Suisse rescue

Financial Times M&A

Swiss bank expects asset writedowns and litigation provisions to total $17bn

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Blackstone to Present at Bernstein’s 39th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference

Blackstone News

NEW YORK, May 17, 2023 – Blackstone (NYSE:BX) announced today that Jon Gray, President and Chief Operating Officer, is scheduled to present at Bernstein’s 39th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 10:00am ET. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Shareholders section of Blackstone’s website at [link].

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Amgen/FTC: deal bar ignores realities of pharma food chain

Financial Times M&A

The US trust buster’s opposition to the tie-up focuses on so-called pharmacy benefit managers

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Index Ventures leads USD26m Round for Latin America’s Liquido

Private Capital Investment in Latin America

Liquido, a payments platform for businesses operating in Latin America, raised USD26m from Index Ventures, Base Partners, Restive Ventures, Mantis VC and UpHonest Capital.

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VistaJet: get rich or fly trying

Financial Times M&A

Plus, a chill descends on the biotech industry and Adani courts his bankers

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An introduction to Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT)

Quiet Growth

Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is an investment theory developed by Harry Markowitz in 1952. He was later awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in this area. The theory attempts to maximise portfolio expected return for a given amount of portfolio risk, or equivalently minimise risk for a given level of expected return. The investor can attempt this by carefully choosing the proportions of various assets.

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Of Ashley, Asos, and unconventional sources

Financial Times M&A

Blogwatching the tag-trade rumourtrage

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An introduction to reversion to the mean

Quiet Growth

‘Reversion to the mean’ is a statistical phenomenon where a variable that deviates significantly from the mean or average will likely move closer to the mean over time. This is an outcome of the law of large numbers. In investments, ‘reversion to the mean’ or mean reversion refers to the idea that the performance of a particular investment or asset class will tend to normalise over time or revert to the long-run mean.

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Martin Franklin: blank-cheque vehicle is a bet on a veteran deal maker

Financial Times M&A

Flotation will test London’s new rules for Spac-style fund raisings

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NUBURU Delivers World’s First Blue 3D Printer Light Engine to Its Technical Partner for US Air Force Contract in Q1 2023

Anzu Partners

CENTENNIAL, Colo.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–NUBURU, Inc. (“NUBURU” or the “Company”) (NYSE American: BURU), a leading innovator in high-power and high-brightness industrial blue laser technology, today announced that in Q1 2023, NUBURU delivered the world’s first blue laser powered area 3D printer light engine to its technical partner under a contract with the U.S.