Let me look into my crystal ball… — The spotlight on crypto never seems to go away despite so many other major events that have happened as of late. It is easy to see why. On one hand, many retail investors associate crypto with a get-rich-quick scheme, with many instances of individuals either latching on early to a…

Another one bites the dust. — Tensions are simmering in the crypto landscape, with the two main crypto blue-chips — Bitcoin and Ethereum, down largely from their all-time highs, it is no surprise that many mainstream protocols and crypto-centred funds are facing mass fire drills. While it is little known outside the mainstream crypto audience, the…

The decision lies with the Fed. — We are more or less midway through 2022 and several growth challenges still loom large on the horizon. More notable of which include constrained supply chains arising from commodities crunches, rising unemployment and even inflated investment multiples which prevent investment managers from deploying their cash effectively. However, chief of these…

No, it’s not Michael Burry — Jim Simons did not have a fancy upbringing. He was an average kid from Massachusetts and his father was a manager of a shoe factory. Solidly middle class. But nothing else about him was really average. He graduated high school in three years before going on to skip the first…

It really pays to be one of the most powerful men — I’m sure that everyone dreamed to be either a doctor, pilot, scientist, or astronaut when they were young. Although all of these careers are respectable professions, I postulate that no career would be as profitable as that of a politician. For all average readers out there, they would expect most…

Private equity facing such issues… — The world of private equity (PE) runs on huge amounts of money. From the most minor capital injections for seed-series venture capital (VC) start-ups, all the way to the leveraged buyout (LBO) deals of mega-companies such as Twitter. A very simplified way of how PE firms work is that they…

Mind you, they were investigated for anti-monopoly — One of the highly anticipated events in the month of June had just dropped another bomb on yet another industry. This time, the payment industry. I had previously written about how Apple will disrupt the communications industry when they rolled out iOS15 here, which has since been downloaded into 85%…

The world’s first triple-listed company on NYSE, SEHK and SGX — Little did we all know that the world’s first triple-listed company would not be from the US, which currently houses 13 US stock exchanges, 12 of which are run by Intercontinental Exchange Inc’s NYSE, Nasdaq Inc, and CBOE Global Markets. It would be from a large-cap Chinese company called NIO. …

A comprehensive take on High Fashion — Haute couture is French for “high sewing”. The term is commonly used to denote the creation of exclusive, timeless, custom-fit pieces of clothing or embroidery that is constructed by hand from start to finish. To a rational human, luxury fashion is a peculiar industry where the rich seem to fork…