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Tuesday, 8 October, 2024

Investment research
Are these the sellside’s best-ever puns?
Probably not, but that’s where you come in
Monday, 7 October, 2024

World
One of the worst charts ever
ABCs of Evil
Monday, 7 October, 2024

Chinese business & finance
Casinos are winning big on Chinese stimulus
Whale-spotting in Macau
Monday, 7 October, 2024

Chinese equities
Fade the Chinese market euphoria?
Investors need to see (much) more for this to be sustained
Monday, 7 October, 2024

And the FTAV chart quiz winner is . . .
T+1 settlement
Monday, 7 October, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Arctic shenanigans; World of Warcraft; privacy; a ghost ship; X; Grenfell; Forbes; and ETFs
Friday, 4 October, 2024

FTAV’s Friday chart quiz
Somewhere in my chart there is a star that shines for you
Friday, 4 October, 2024

Investing in funds
ETFs keep coming for private markets
The spaghetti cannon shoots again
Friday, 4 October, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Immigration; exotics; AI ambulance chasing; AI mediocrity; and lunch; and brunch
Thursday, 3 October, 2024

Investing in funds
Nvidia is a single-stock active management wrecking ball
Drag show
Thursday, 3 October, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Bailey; Trump; Ellison; Coates; tariffs; deportation; Russia; nonbanks; and tunespotting
Wednesday, 2 October, 2024

Starling Bank Ltd
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
Wednesday, 2 October, 2024

Investing in funds
Smart people prefer passive
Everyone loves having their priors confirmed
Wednesday, 2 October, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Sand; Internet Archive; US political polarisation; sovereign debt reform; books; and main character syndrome
Wednesday, 2 October, 2024

Style
Cut a figure (while stirring emotions) in our new ‘Outsize Cut’ shirt
Rate expectations
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

Private equity
Apollo is now using memes to diss private equity rivals
We’re not gonna lie, we love it
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

Media
Carl Icahn’s cone of silence
The first rule of working for Icahn: do not talk about working for Icahn
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

Technology sector
A test case of the AI frenzy
Cerebras Systems needs a dose of initial public scepticism
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

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
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

Retail & Consumer industry
Walmart’s terrible, horrible, no good, very badly timed JD.com block trade
The market giveth, and the market taketh away
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Social security; UMich; China; sports betting apps; SoftBank; AI; research fraud; griefbots; and scenes from a nerd quiz
Monday, 30 September, 2024

White collar crime
Deadlines, schmeadlines
Wall Street regulator Finra has yet to respond to questions about its dwindling fines
Monday, 30 September, 2024

Global Economy
Is Harris vs Trump impacting the economy?
All the uncertainty — in five charts
Monday, 30 September, 2024

And the winner isn’t . . .
No shirt
Monday, 30 September, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Public disorder; liquidity; real wage growth; AI; The London Standard; bicycle physics; Greta Thunberg; AI; and recipes

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