Weekly Investing Roundup – News, Podcasts, Interviews (08/01/2025)
Thursday, July 31, 2025 · Johnny Hopkins
This week’s best investing news:
Cliff Asness: ‘The Problem Was Never Beta. The Problem Was Paying Alpha Fees for Beta’ (Long View)
Chris Davis – Why Behavior Is So Important for Investors (Rubenstein)
Ray Dalio: The Risks Are NOT Priced In – Here’s What Happens Next (MIP)
Factors: The Good and the Bad (Verdad)
Mario Gabelli on media landscape, regulatory environment and M&A outlook (CNBC)
Yet Another Munger Masterclass: The 2003 Wesco Financial AGM (Kingswell)
Wall Street’s Big, Bad Idea for Your 401(k) (Jason Zweig)
The Big Secret to Long-Term Investment Success (Morningstar)
The Active Management Paradox: Why Skill Improvements Haven’t Translated to Better Returns (Swedroe)
Nothing Works All the Time (Ben Carlson)
Sustaining the disconnect from fundamentals (Havenstein)
What is the Illiquidity Premium? (BI)
Like the stock market, the jobs market has a history of adapting to destructive tech (TKer)
MiB: Sonal Desai, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income CIO (MiB)
Investing and the Paradox of Skill (Safal)
Five Signs of a Market Bubble Investors Are Tracking (WSJ)
Busting Three Myths (Carson)
The S&P 500 inclusion effect springboard is back in a big way (Sherwood)
July Views from First Eagle Global Value Team (FEIM)
Weitz Investment Management Q2 2025 Commentary (Weitz)
Markel Group reports 2025 second quarter and six months results (Markel)
Third Point Q2 2025 Investor Letter (TP)
Pzena Investment Management Q2 2025 Commentary (Pzena)
This week’s best value investing news:
Why value investing has worked better outside the US (Yahoo)
2025 Mid-Year Global Outlook for Value Webinar (Pzena)
The power of combining value and momentum factors (DSGMV)
This week’s Fear & Greed Index:
This week’s best investing podcasts:
10X Microcaps and Multibaggers – What Really Drives High Returns? (MCC)
KKR’s Henry McVey – Regime Change is Here: Think Differently About Asset Allocation (Meb)
Episode 368: Jim Rowley & Andy Maack – Implementing Index Funds at Vanguard (RR)
The Bubble No One Can Sell | Dan Rasmussen on the Private Equity Trap (ER)
Why “Old Boring Companies” Benefiting from Data Center and AI Trends (PMC)
Kent Daniel — From Physics to Finance: Exploring Market Inefficiencies (VIWL)
Covered-Call ETFs Are Booming. But Not All Yield Is Good (Morningstar)
The Final Phase of the Debt Supercycle | Edward Chancellor (HF)
Venture Capital Is the Wild West of Investing (Stansberry)
Ramtin Naimi – Building Abstract (ILTB)
The DNA of a great growth stock – Jared Pohl (EM)
This week’s Buffett Indicator:
This week’s best investing research:
The Risks of Passive Investing Dominance (AA)
Frankenstein’s Index Fund (CFA)
Tech, Trust & Tangible Assets: A New Efficient Frontier for Pensions (AAA)
This week’s best investing tweet:
Stunning. The 7 largest U.S. stocks reached a combined $20 trillion in market value, an unprecedented 37% of the S&P 500. That’s 55% larger than the index at its 2000 and 2007 peaks. It matches where the index first traded in April 2017 and larger than the March 2020 Covid low.… pic.twitter.com/QMYJjGI7TW
— Christopher Bloomstran (@ChrisBloomstran) July 31, 2025
This week’s best investing graphic:
History’s Biggest Companies vs. The Magnificent Seven (Visual Capitalist)
