My end-of-week morning practice WFH reads:

• How Vanguard plans to play disruptor once more: Low charges made the group a passive investing powerhouse. But it surely wants to enhance tech and repair because it pushes into wealth administration and money accounts. (Financial Times)

• The American Con Man Who Pioneered Offshore Finance: How a now-obscure financier turned the Bahamas right into a tax haven—and created a cornerstone of worldwide plutocracy (The Atlantic)

• How Many Grownup New Yorkers Are Secretly Sponsored by Their Mother and father? Boomers are transferring trillions of {dollars} to their youngsters, one down cost at a time. (New York Magazine)

• How Spain’s financial system grew to become the envy of Europe: The tourism business’s post-COVID enlargement is a significant purpose why the eurozone’s fourth-biggest financial system has been simply outgrowing the likes of Germany, France, Italy, and the UK, posting a rise in GDP of three.2% final 12 months. In contrast, the German financial system contracted by 0.2% in 2024, whereas France grew by 1.1%, Italy by 0.5%, and the UK by an anticipated 0.9%. This all helps clarify why the Economist journal has ranked Spain because the world’s best-performing financial system. (BBC)

• Can Brief Promoting Survive Trump 2.0? Market contributors predict much less enforcement of fraud, doable adjustments to the SEC whistleblower program, and avoidance of Trump’s pals. (Institutional Investor)

• Make America Rich Once more: Inside company America’s ‘quiet’ marketing campaign to vary Trump’s thoughts on mass deportations. (Business Insider)

• Who’s Watching What on TV? Who’s to Say? Folks now watch so many applications at so many alternative instances in so many alternative ways in which measuring viewership has develop into a sizzling debate within the business. (New York Times)

• How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics: Emmy Noether confirmed that basic bodily legal guidelines are only a consequence of easy symmetries. A century later, her insights proceed to form physics. (Quanta Magazine)

• How Lorne Michaels’ Biographer Satisfied ‘SNL’ Chief to Reveal Uncommon View of Life Off-Digital camera: Issues typically boil right down to the 90 minutes between the tip of gown rehearsal and the beginning of the actual broadcast, when Michaels takes a bevy of notes he utters about staging, jokes and costumes, and makes the final word choice about what sketches get on air and which forged members seem on display screen. He’s caring and but cruel, abruptly. (Variety) see additionally The Unfunny Man Who Believes in Humor: How Lorne Michaels grew to become the arbiter of humorous. (The Atlantic)

• Tremendous Bowl 2025: How the Eagles dominated the Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes: Full and utter dominance. On the most important stage, with the Chiefs dominating the headlines of their try and win a 3rd consecutive title, the Eagles comprehensively manhandled them in New Orleans. The 40-22 ultimate rating in Tremendous Bowl LIX appears unfair each to a Philadelphia protection that shut down Kansas Metropolis till a few garbage-time touchdowns within the fourth quarter and to a Kansas Metropolis protection that battled gamely earlier than lastly getting overwhelmed by quick fields and the sheer quantity of snaps it needed to play. (ESPN)

Remember to take a look at our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Christine Phillpotts, Portfolio Supervisor at Ariel Investments. She manages  Ariel’s Rising Markets Worth methods. and covers shopper and actual property shares throughout Asia, Latin America, Center East and Jap Europe. Beforehand, she launched Alliance Bernstein’s “Subsequent 50 Rising Markets Fund,” in addition to their inaugural frontier markets technique.

Tesla shares tumbled ~11% final week, weighed down by shockingly unhealthy gross sales experiences from world wide

Supply: Bloomberg

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