Bruce Packard

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knowledge.sharescope.co.uk/2025/10/15/b... companies covered #DIA, #IHC & #TSTL Riding the wave across the pond, and mixing my metaphors with US bubbles versus UK outflows

Three poor deals for trust investors Small shareholders need protection in related-party deals, says Bruce Packard

moneyweek.com/investments/... #OCN #HAN

When buying bank stocks, think small for the best value Bankers love to build bloated global empires, but that rarely rewards their investors, says Bruce Packard

moneyweek.com/investments/... #BGEO #TBCG

At least you're not "cautiously optimistic" - a phrase that became the equivalent of "strong balance sheet" in 2007/8.

Mapped: Renewable Electricity’s Share Across Europe Albania and Norway generate nearly 100% of their electricity from renewables, while the EU average is around 42%.

See also, this map from www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-renew... Renewable energy share across Europe

With Natural Gas down -20% YTD, renewable energy sources could be replacing demand for fossil fuels, reducing risk of 70’s style stagflation. Companies covered PLUS, MHA and ZTF.https://knowledge.sharescope.co.uk/2025/08/20/bi-weekly-market-commentary-20-08-2025-plus-mha-ztf-a-look-at-energy-costs

knowledge.sharescope.co.uk/2025/08/06/b... A look at the valuations achieved by US-listed dog walking apps, Wag and Rover. Companies covered #STVG, #GRG, #CBG and #OCN.

I was at Iron Maiden playing live in Berlin and stood next to a father and his teenage son.

Not quite "Bring your daughter to the slaughter"

...but almost

When to buy shares in NatWest, Britain's worst bank Rising interest rates should lift profits for the banking sector if inflation doesn’t get out of control, says Bruce Packard.

UK banks have had a strong 18 months AND it is the lowest quality banks, #MTRO +240% and #NWG +138% that have performed best. You read it here first in 2022: moneyweek.com/investments/...

Filtronic: a UK success story cashing in on the space race Filtronic has become an all-too-rare Aim success story since it moved down to the junior market

#FTC Bored of reading all the doom and gloom about the UK and #AIM stocks? Here's an AIM listed UK tech success story! moneyweek.com/investments/...

Bi-Weekly Market Commentary | 23/07/2025 | DOCS, BKS, CRL | Gilts to crowd out UK mortgages? - ShareScope Articles The FTSE 100 rose to just above 9,000, up +0.8% in the last 5 trading days. The Nasdaq 100 was up +1.4% while the S&P 500 was up +0.6% over the same time

knowledge.sharescope.co.uk/2025/07/23/b... Companies covered #DOCS, #BKS, #CRL

An Israeli family office (possibly Mirilashvili?) wanted to commit the final $2 million to his $100m seed round...

... for a chap whose parents are from Iran.

The Man With the Hot Hand The dizzying rise, brief fall, and white-hot resurgence of Abstract’s 34-year-old Founder, Ramtin Naimi

joincolossus.com/article/ramt... "Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, David Sacks, Keith Rabois, Michael Ovitz, Kevin Hartz, Bill Ackman, Stanley Druckenmiller, and Kevin Warsh bought 20% of his management company, for $10m" Blimey.

Revisiting some chat transcripts after Tom Hayes’ exoneration What are the lessons of the Libor scandal?

It's up! A delicately and subtly lawyered review of whether or not there was something kind of scuffed going on in LIBOR rates trading.
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We could cancel all weekends and public holidays - which would be "good for the economy" and terrible for actual people.

Bi-Weekly Market Commentary | 09/07/2025 | MANO, AOM | Are we asking the right questions about LLMs? - ShareScope Articles How confident can we be that the tech companies spending hundreds of billions of capex on LLM will generate adequate returns? Companies covered MANO and AOM.

knowledge.sharescope.co.uk/2025/07/09/b...

When I started work in equity research, I had to learn to think in UK bank balance sheet amounts, and that now helps me visualise orders of magnitude.

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’ Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods

NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes.

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Funnily enough, Gary Lineker sent his son to Charterhouse. Despite having some excellent teachers who managed to get me into Durham, young George Lineker failed to get into university. www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

This already happened in finance 20 years ago.

Algo's beat human traders, but then algo's had to compete against other algo's.

We're now just seeing the same tech applied to job hunting and dating websites.

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Aha - I should have guessed that you are a fan of Mary Douglas' Cultural Theory of Risk amzn.eu/d/8QlPSfI

Lars Windhorst’s Tennor Holding declared bankrupt Company that borrowed billions from investors collapses into insolvency over unpaid Dutch tax

Tennor Holding, Tennor International, Tennor Group...

www.ft.com/content/90d0... @bondhack.ft.com

...but will anyone lend Lars a tenner?

What a chart!

Shows the changing share of S&P 500 assets which are intangible vs tangible, from a CFA institute report

H/t Matteo Lombardo on LI

How amateur investors could rescue UK stocks Private investors must be the beneficiaries of a stock market recovery, says Bruce Packard – not brokers and fund managers

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An implicit assumption in financial regulation is that professionals with Bloomberg terminals and access to company management have an advantage. People should hand their money to someone in The City to manage because they can't trust themselves.

I disagree.

Tesco and Sainsbury's banking JV's didn't work in the UK. I'm not sure why not? Customer inertia? Or something else?

- I would have expected after 2009 supermarket-banks could have attracted more UK customers and been viable.

Bi-Weekly Market Commentary | 11/6/2025 | FTC, GHH, RFX | Who is buying a thousand tons of gold a year? - ShareScope Articles As concerns rise about the outlook for government debt, a look at what could be driving prices in the precious metals sector. Companies covered FTC, GHH and

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As government debt fears grow, precious metals are surging. Who's buying 1,000 tons of gold a year and why?

Spotlight on #FTC, #GHH & #RFX

I have a dumb question:

how can Calastone still be reporting monthly fund outflows from UK equities, while AIM has bounced +22% since the start of April?

Is this retail money going directly into AIM, as professional fund mgrs are forced sellers?

"In order to build up the successful cluster in the first place, you need to provide a stable, rule-of-law environment in which people can be confident that they’re going to be able to enjoy the benefits of the investments they’re making."

This is also why we don't move to Minsk to found start-ups

If fining bank shareholders was an effective way to regulate banks, you have to wonder why regulators kept fining taxpayer owned RBS for bad behaviour.