We have some news to share with you.
We are launching a short-biased fund. We are thrilled to announce that @michaeljburry will act as a senior advisor to our fund, Minerva Investment Management LLC.
An abridged note below.
US pension funds are heavily concentrated in technology stocks:
The technology sector accounts for 44% of total US pension fund equity allocation, according to a Bloomberg analysis of more than 70 pension funds.
This percentage has more than doubled since 2015.
Pension fund equity allocation to technology is now larger than that of the next 3 sectors combined.
By comparison, Financials represent 16%, followed by Healthcare at 12%, Industrials at 11%, and Consumer stocks at 10%.
To put this into perspective, the Consumer sector was these funds' largest allocation in 2014, at ~20%.
US pension funds are more exposed to technology stocks than ever.
Looking like some asset protection. Now my question is: Protecting it from what? And who? Because if I were to listen to the media/talking heads (I don't) all is good?
Musings of a $QQQ short day 63.
Bring on the circuit breakers..........
"Look at the last 5 years of performance of this", that's the total extent of the analysis.
"Double in the last year, I gotta get on that" also the total extent of the analysis.
@davidein@jamesfishback@davidein Rob MacArthur and I have high respect for you. We have known you for a long time and I’m glad you and your fund won this case.
Stay well, and hope to see you soon.
Jefferies has now been tied to financing at least 4 alleged frauds including the infamous First Brands.
Indiana’s pension is suing after putting $100mm into a Jefferies-backed fund (where it was the largest investor). The fund’s big bet was bonds of Water Station a water vending machine company that turned out to be a Ponzi (alleged).
The pension alleges that while Water Station was collapsing, Jefferies sold the bonds it held into the fund at “fraud-inflated prices,” moving its losses onto the pension
“When you see one cockroach, there are probably more.”
I wish people were as concerned about the Chinese spies in our universities, governments, megacorps, etc as they were about some honeypot fucking Jensen.
Maybe this can help boost some awareness.
BREAKING: Nasdaq 100 futures fall over -1% in their first reaction to Nvidia, $NVDA, CEO Jensen Huang confirming his "romantic relationship" with a Chinese spy.
CLOs: You have 10x levered CLOs, buying the $CRWV SUNs which fund the equity into SPVs which borrow at 80% LTV to buy Nvidia chips. Insane. CDO Squared of 2026