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21 AugFri
  1. Aswath Damodaran:Musings on Markets59

    AI's Coming-of-Age Moment: From Hype and Vision to Business Questions

    NYU valuation professor Aswath Damodaran published a lengthy article proposing a four-stage framework for revolutionary change, arguing that AI is currently entering its coming-of-age phase, shifting from investment and infrastructure building to commercial implementation. The article notes that since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the Mag Seven contributed 45% of the total increase in U.S. stock market capitalization from 2022 to 2025. Six leading AI companies have cumulatively spent $1.7 trillion in capital expenditures, while the current upper bound of total revenue from AI products and services is only about $250 billion.

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15 AugSat
  1. EDGAR 13F: Bridgewater17

    Bridgewater Files 13F-HR Quarterly Holdings Report

    Bridgewater Associates submitted a 13F-HR quarterly holdings report to the SEC on 2026-08-14, covering the period ending 2026-06-30. The filing was received by the SEC at 16:08:20 on the same day. This submission includes the main document and holdings information table. The complete submission text file is numbered 0001350694-26-000003.txt. Bridgewater's registered address is located in Westport, Connecticut.

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  2. EDGAR 13F:AQR14

    AQR Files 13F-HR Quarterly Holdings Report

    AQR filed its 13F-HR quarterly holdings report on 2026-08-14, with a reporting period ending 2026-06-30, accepted by the SEC on the same day. This filing includes the main document and the holdings information table. The complete submission text file number is 0001167557-26-000226.txt, and AQR's contact address is ONE GREENWICH PLAZA SUITE 130 GREENWICH CT 06830.

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14 AugFri
  1. EDGAR 13F:Two Sigma Investments17

    Two Sigma Investments Submits 13F-HR Holdings Report for the Quarter Ending 2026-06-30

    Two Sigma Investments submitted a 13F-HR quarterly holdings report through EDGAR on 2026-08-14, with the reporting period ending 2026-06-30 and the document taking effect on the same day. The report includes a main document and a holdings information table, and the submitting entity is registered at 16th Floor, 100 Avenue of the Americas, New York.

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  2. EDGAR 13F: Renaissance Technologies23

    Renaissance Technologies files 13F-HR quarterly holdings report as of 2026-06-30

    Renaissance Technologies filed a 13F-HR quarterly holdings report with the SEC on 2026-08-13, with the reporting period ending 2026-06-30. The document was received by the SEC at 16:34:33 on the same day. The report consists of two types of documents: the main document and the holdings information table, totaling 2 documents. The registered address of the filer is 520 Madison Avenue, New York.

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30 JulThu
  1. Aswath Damodaran:Musings on Markets54

    Aswath Damodaran: Disclosure and Timing – The Earnings Guidance Game

    Aswath Damodaran, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, wrote an article analyzing the SEC's proposal to replace quarterly reports with semi-annual reports alongside new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's proposal to reduce forward guidance, arguing that both are essentially reducing the amount of public information that markets have become accustomed to receiving.

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19 JunFri
  1. Aswath Damodaran:Musings on Markets55

    SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic: S&P 500 Inclusion Controversy and Investment Implications

    NYU Professor Aswath Damodaran analyzes whether SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic should be included in the S&P 500 after their IPOs. He breaks down index construction, including constituent selection, weighting methods, and index unit conversion mechanisms. He notes that the S&P 500 uses free-float market capitalization weighting, and that the June 15, 2026 closing level of 7554.29 corresponds to an index unit of 0.1190.

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8 JunMon
  1. Robot Wealth45

    How Independent Traders Should Allocate Resources for a Triangulated Statistical Arbitrage Business

    This article is the sixth part of a series on statistical arbitrage for independent traders. It explains the three core modules of triangulated statistical arbitrage and their resource allocation priorities. High-quality pair screening is the core foundation: using 24 months of historical data, the top 10% of pairs are screened monthly and divided into 5 quality tiers, with the best tier achieving a Sharpe ratio of 1.6 and the worst only 0.42. The author discloses only the general methodology and does not reveal specific implementation details.

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1 JunMon
  1. Robot Wealth54

    Triangulated statistical arbitrage: how to identify genuine pricing deviations rather than mispricing

    This article is the fifth in a statistical arbitrage series for independent traders, focusing on the triangulated statistical arbitrage method. Using the energy sector spread network as an example, the author explains how to cross-validate multiple overlapping spreads to identify genuinely mispriced individual stocks, rather than treating deviations in a single spread as a direct trading signal.

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22 MayFri
  1. Robot Wealth53

    From Pairs to Portfolios, Part 4: A Triangulated Statistical Arbitrage Approach for Independent Traders

    This article introduces a triangulated statistical arbitrage approach. Using 8 spread groups constructed from 6 energy stocks as an example, the z-score signal of each spread is decomposed into opposite votes for the two individual stocks, which are then aggregated into long-short signals at the individual stock level. This allows direct trading of undervalued or overvalued stocks, replacing the traditional pairs-trading model of hedging both legs simultaneously. The approach can improve capital efficiency, reduce transaction costs, and increase signal utilization, while achieving variance control similar to pairs trading through a long-short basket portfolio. The article will further explain how to evaluate the quality of aggregated signals.

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  1. Bridgewater: Research & Insights55

    Bridgewater Research: The Macroeconomic Impact of the AI Capital Spending Boom

    Bridgewater released a research report on January 7, 2026, estimating that AI capital spending will contribute about 140 basis points to U.S. GDP growth in 2026 and about 150 basis points in 2027, a scale comparable to the contribution of business investment to growth during the dot-com bubble.

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26 NovWed
  1. Bridgewater: Research & Insights42

    The Release of Google Gemini 3 Signals the Start of an AI Industry “Resource Grab” Phase

    Bridgewater Co-Chief Investment Officer Greg Jensen and AIA Labs Chief Scientist Jas Sekhon released a viewpoint arguing that Google Gemini 3 is currently the strongest publicly available general-purpose large AI model, with pre-training compute at least 2–3 times higher than GPT-4o, validating that the path of scaling pre-training remains sustainable. This development will drive the AI industry to continue increasing investment in compute, chips, and power, with significant implications for capital markets and the economy.

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4 NovTue
  1. EDGAR 13F:Scion16

    Scion (Michael Burry) filed its 13F-HR holdings report for the quarter ending September 30, 2025

    Scion (Michael Burry) filed its 13F-HR quarterly holdings report on November 3, 2025, for the reporting period ending September 30, 2025. The report consists of 2 files, with the submission number 0001649339-25-000007, and the institution's registered address is located at 20665 Fourth Avenue, Suite 201, Saratoga, California.

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22 SeptMon
  1. Bridgewater: Research & Insights52

    Bridgewater: Inflation Risks Enter a New Era of Structural Uptrend

    Bridgewater released a research report, arguing that the inflation center in the post-pandemic era has risen compared with that before the pandemic, 2% is more like a bottom than an upper limit, and the distribution of inflation outcomes is wider and skewed upward. The report compares the current environment with that in the 2010s, pointing out that restraining factors such as China's export of low-priced goods, shale oil production, and post-crisis deleveraging have weakened; while the medium-term expansion deficit of about 7% of US GDP, the compromised independence of the Federal Reserve, tariffs and trade restructuring, potential depreciation of the US dollar, and AI power and commodity demand constitute structural inflationary pressures.

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10 JulThu
  1. Bridgewater: Research & Insights34

    What Does It Take to Revive U.S. Manufacturing? Part 2: Boosting U.S. Manufacturing Productivity

    Bridgewater, in collaboration with Eclipse, released the second part of its series on reviving U.S. manufacturing, pointing out that U.S. manufacturing lacks competitiveness due to high labor costs and a weak industrial base, and tariffs cannot bridge the cost gap. The report proposes leveraging mature technologies such as automation, computer vision, and additive manufacturing, as well as cutting-edge technologies like generative AI and embodied AI, to boost manufacturing productivity by 1 to 2 orders of magnitude. Scaling the application of these technologies is expected to take nearly a decade.

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2 JulWed
  1. Bridgewater: Research & Insights42

    What Does It Take to Revive U.S. Manufacturing? Part 1: Structural Headwinds Facing the United States

    Bridgewater, in partnership with industrial technology investment firm Eclipse, released a study exploring the structural challenges of reviving U.S. manufacturing. Currently, about 40% of goods consumed in the U.S. rely on imports, with a manufacturing job gap of nearly 5 million over the past 20 years. For some product categories, even a 25% tariff cannot close the gap between domestic and foreign production costs. U.S. manufacturing productivity has stagnated for 15 years, and boosting productivity is the core path to enhancing the competitiveness of domestic manufacturing.

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17 SeptTue
  1. Bridgewater: Research & Insights54

    Bridgewater Research: Drivers of U.S. Stock Outperformance and Conditions Needed for Future Repeats

    Bridgewater research indicates that since 2010, the excess returns of U.S. stocks relative to developed markets have been roughly equally driven by revenue growth, margin expansion, and rising P/E multiples, with a stronger U.S. dollar further boosting returns for unhedged global investors. The technology sector contributed 54% of the excess returns, of which 22% came from index overweights in technology and 32% from U.S. tech companies significantly outperforming their global peers.

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10 SeptTue
  1. Bridgewater: Research & Insights45

    Bridgewater Research: Is the AI Bubble Ahead of Us or Behind Us?

    The Bridgewater research team believes the AI bubble has not yet arrived, noting that the transformative technology and mature macro monetary environment needed to fuel a major bubble are already in place. This view addresses market concerns about AI valuations, commercialization, and slowing technological progress, while also highlighting risks of AI misuse and regulatory uncertainty. Bridgewater established AIA Labs in early 2023 with the goal of building a fully AI-driven investor that can outperform humans.

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