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Industry Primer: Alternative Asset Managers

Alternative asset managers earn durable fees on committed capital, but 2026 losses followed retail-credit redemptions, lender-fraud allegations and AI fears around portfolio software…

BN $94BBX $151B
Latticework by MOI Global 2 clicks

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David Orr on X

Yes, I really do think Hikari Tsushin $9435 is really worth at least double. I also really thought $NVDA could become the most valuable company in the world in 2023. And I also really thought Credit Suisse was insolvent before 2023. What, I shouldn't be allowed to voice these opinions? Why? Because some compliance guy wants to invent reasons to keep me on edge and charge me money? Or because some government regulator needs to justify his job? To them I'd say: you're picking the wrong target, this one actually punches back.
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Convequity on X

Been thinking about the $ANT Anthropic IPO and I keep coming back to a couple of things that don't quite add up for me. Anthropic works hard to come across as a company for everyone else. It set up the Long-Term Benefit Trust so the mission, not money, elects the board, and the founders are giving 20% of their shares away to the public. Then the IPO. The book is reportedly ~6x oversubscribed on up to $64B, yet $26B goes to suppliers: Google, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Microsoft, TSMC. With that much public demand, that feels inconsistent. It sits next to the other contradiction: leadership warns that frontier AI is dangerous without regulation, yet keeps racing the frontier. So why the suppliers? My guess: Anthropic isn't a consumer-facing company. Maybe they worry retail holders would be fickle and sell at the first wobble, while suppliers give them a steady, long-term shareholder base. That's the opposite of $TSLA Tesla, where a diehard retail base helped the company weather storm after storm. Apple too, to a degree. Those are consumer brands, though. The flip side is $PLTR Palantir. Not consumer-facing at all, and it still built a diehard retail following that stuck with it through plenty of storms. Anthropic says it's built for everyone, then hands a big slice of its IPO to its suppliers. It warns about the AI race, then keeps racing. That's the mixed messaging I can't get past.

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QXO Inc Earnings Update: Q3 2026

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Trading Post November 5, 2026

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Intel: The CPU Comeback, Discounted

Intel's Q3 2026 results were hit by memory costs and an Israel shutdown, but enterprise AI inference could lift CPU demand as server…

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VSH Earnings Review

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Thursday Tailwinds #13: Nov 5, 2026

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