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07/18/2026

AI prices are collapsing five times faster than PC prices did.

06/21/2026

SpaceX share unlock timeline

06/12/2026

The Wealth Pyramid is Shifting: Are your strategies keeping up? 📈

The latest data from the Capgemini Research Institute gives us a fascinating, granular look at the High-Net-Worth Individual (HNWI) landscape as we wrap up a massive year of growth.

When you look at the breakdown, a few critical insights stand out for anyone in the wealth management, private banking, or luxury sectors:

🔹 The Power at the Peak: "Ultra-HNWIs" (USD 30M+) make up just 1% of the HNWI population (0.25M people), yet they command a staggering 34.8% of the total HNWI wealth. With a 9.7% wealth growth rate from 2024–2025, this segment continues to scale the fastest.

🔹 The Resilient Core: "Mid-tier Millionaires" (USD 5M–30M) represent 9.3% of the population but hold nearly 22.7% of the wealth. Their population and wealth grew hand-in-hand (~8.6% and 8.7% respectively), proving to be a highly stable, compounding engine.

🔹 The Massive Foundation: "Millionaires Next Door" (USD 1M–5M) represent the overwhelming majority at 89.7% of the population. Crucially, they still hold the largest collective slice of the pie at 42.5% of the wealth.

💡 The Big Takeaway:

Growth is accelerating across the board, but the nature of that growth differs. Tailoring your approach is no longer optional:

For Ultra-HNWIs: Hyper-personalized, institutional-grade family office services are required to match their rapid 9.7% wealth expansion.
For the Millionaires Next Door: Scalable, tech-driven wealth management tools are essential to capture and protect the massive 42.5% market share they hold.

How is your organization adapting its tiering and engagement strategies to meet these distinct growth trajectories? Let’s discuss in the comments. 👇

05/27/2026

🚨The US student loan crisis is intensifying:

Delinquent federal student loan debt surged by $12.2 billion in Q1 2026, reaching a record $171.4 billion and eclipsing the previous peak of $166.8 billion set in Q4 2019.

This figure has more than doubled since 2012, reflecting a prolonged decline in borrowers' ability to service their debt over the past decade.

Notably, 2.6 million borrowers defaulted on student loans in Q1 2026, following 1.0 million in Q4 2025.

👉🏼The average borrower entering default is approaching 40 years old, up from 36.4 prior to the 2020 pandemic, indicating that the student debt crisis is increasingly affecting middle-aged Americans beyond recent graduates.

The crisis demonstrates no indication of abating.

05/24/2026

ANTHROPIC IPO VALUATION: $850B
SAMSUNG VALUATION: $800B

ANTHROPIC REVENUE: $30B
SAMSUNG REVENUE: $230B

05/02/2026

👉🏼Berkshire Hathaway is now sitting on a staggering $397 Billion in Cash, enough to buy 479 companies in the S&P 500

04/09/2026

BREAKING: Perplexity's revenue has reportedly surged +50% in one month after shifting into AI agents, per FT.

As a result, Perplexity's revenue has doubled in one quarter to more than $450 million in ARR.

This follows Anthropic's push into the space which said its ARR hit $19 billion at the end of February.

AI agents are skyrocketing in popularity.

02/27/2026

👉🏼 We’re in the 1880s of AI where the technology exists and adoption is spreading, but the real productivity transformation hasn’t hit yet.

That lap between "invention" and "transformation" is exactly where investors lose patience.. right before the gains show up.

01/18/2026

👉🏼A substantial spike in venture capital investment in US rare earth startups has been recorded, with investments totaling $628.5 million in 2025, a close to 3,000% increase from 2024.

👉🏼This sum does not include government funding, such as the $400 million equity stake acquired by the Defense Department in MP Materials.

👉🏼The significant investment influx enabled US startups to attract roughly 90% of global funding for rare earth minerals, furthering the US's objective to lessen its dependence on China's rare earth supply, which accounts for around 60% of global mining and over 90% of refining capacity.

12/14/2025

“Once the holding period extends into the 10 year and 20 year range, returns are mostly entirely explained by fundamentals. In the long term fundamental matter”

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