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2025-09-11
Founded in 2014 by Catherine D. Wood, ARK Invest is a U.S.-based asset management firm and one of the few companies in the ETF space that adopts an actively managed strategy. ARK is well known for its distinctive investment approach, focusing on disruptive innovation and emphasizing “transformational technologies.” This article provides a brief overview of the firm’s origins, highlighting its strong performance during the pandemic and offering an update on its current portfolio positioning post-pandemic. It also introduces several of ARK’s thematic ETFs, offering a simple comparison of their respective investment focuses.
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2025-07-22
SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) surged in popularity after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, offering an alternative path to traditional IPOs for companies—especially startups—seeking rapid access to capital markets. Unlike traditional IPOs, SPACs are created without any operating business, with the sole purpose of acquiring a promising private company in the future. This article explains how SPACs operate, outlines the policy shifts from the Biden administration to the current Trump administration, and presents one successful and one failed case to provide deeper insight into the opportunities and risks of SPACs.
# Fundamental Analysis
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2025-06-30
How to Read a 13F Report? This article offers a detailed breakdown of the different types of 13F filings and explains how investors can use the publicly available data to support their investment decisions. Key takeaways include tracking industry trends or popular stocks, monitoring changes in institutional AUM, and identifying which sectors are favored by different types of investors. Once investors have defined their own targets and preferences, leveraging 13F reports effectively can significantly improve their chances of success.
# Chip Analysis
2025-06-04
UC Capital is the Taiwanese firm that purchased the commemorative ball marking Shohei Ohtani’s 50 homers and 50 steals in a single season. Headquartered in Taipei, it is a quantitative proprietary trading firm. By focusing on high-frequency proprietary trading of Taiwanese stocks, ETFs, and derivatives, the firm—operating as a single quant fund—has become one of the leading institutional players in Taiwan’s financial markets. This article provides a brief introduction to the company and its investment strategies, along with an overview of its corporate culture and its strong performance in recent years.
Bridgewater Associates is one of the largest hedge funds in the world, renowned for its unique investment strategies and long-term, consistent performance. It holds a significant and influential position in the financial industry. This article shares the story behind Bridgewater’s founding, its investment approach, and the background of its founder, Ray Dalio. It also examines Bridgewater’s latest 13F filing to analyze its current holdings and infer its present investment outlook.
On May 3rd of this year, Warren Buffett officially announced at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting that he will be retiring by the end of the year. He also named Greg Abel as his successor and the company’s next CEO. This article reviews Buffett’s investment philosophy and Berkshire Hathaway’s investment approach, while also briefly introducing the background of incoming CEO Greg Abel.
# Long-term Investment
2025-03-17
Equity is a fundamental concept of business ownership that influences corporate governance, capital raising, and investment decisions. This article begins with the basics of equity, explaining how shareholders participate in a company’s operations through ownership. It outlines shareholders’ rights and obligations, including the right to profit distribution, voting rights, claims to residual assets, and access to company information. The article also explores various types of equity—such as common stock, preferred stock, and restricted shares—as well as the investment risks and responsibilities shareholders must bear. Through these discussions, readers gain a clearer understanding of how equity functions.
# Beginners Guide
2025-02-20
Unlike its intuitive meaning, goodwill in accounting refers to a key item that reflects a company’s value during a merger or acquisition (M&A). It represents a company’s intangible assets and signifies the acquiring firm's recognition of the target company's brand, customer relationships, and market position. This article provides an in-depth analysis of goodwill’s critical role in M&A, explaining its underlying significance, calculation methods, and impact on financial statements. Finally, it illustrates these concepts with the well-known case of Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram.
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2024-12-23
EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) is a widely used financial metric for assessing a company's core profitability, eliminating non-operational factors that may distort financial performance. This article explores the definition, formula, and advantages of EBITDA, along with practical applications. Additionally, the article discusses the limitations of EBITDA, including its exclusion of capital expenditures and comparability issues as a non-GAAP metric.
2024-10-18
Nvidia's 1-for-10 stock split attracted market attention by making the stock more accessible to a broader range of investors. A stock split is a way to restructure a company's shares, adjusting the price per share while altering the total number of shares without changing the company's total market capitalization. Stock splits can be either forward or reverse. Forward splits reduce the share price, increase liquidity, and attract more investors, and reverse splits works vice versa. Although a stock split does not affect the company's intrinsic value, it can influence market psychology and investor behavior.
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