Why is there still no third option?
For fifty years you got two: overpay a manager who might trail the market, or buy the index and give up all choice in what you own.
Vanguard made the first one cheaper. Nobody made the third one exist, the one where you get the tools to decide yourself, no middleman, no slice taken off the top.
The rails for moving money are already software. The tools for knowing what to do with it are the piece finance never handed the individual.
That is what we are building. New piece on the next disintermediation, and it is not the fee. It is the manager.
Read it here... link below
#fintech #investing #fintwit #WealthTech #ETFs #GCC #MENA
Hormuz declared closed. Crude +5.9%. Payrolls at 57k, half of consensus. Two shocks, opposite directions. Supply destruction and demand erosion arriving together. Equities still rose. Gold didn't move. Our framework's read on where conviction went this week... 1/2
57,000.
That was June payrolls. Consensus wanted 115,000. The economy delivered roughly half.
The market did not panic. It rotated. Bonds rallied, gold surged, the dollar slipped, equity breadth widened beyond tech, and our systematic scan pulled conviction out of energy and international and concentrated it in domestic US themes with rate sensitivity.
One print, and the whole cross asset complex repriced around a slowing economy. We break down what the framework saw, and where it leaned in, in this week's Vivé Macro Weekly.
Link to the full article below...
Why is there still no third option?
For fifty years you got two: overpay a manager who might trail the market, or buy the index and give up all choice in what you own.
Vanguard made the first one cheaper. Nobody made the third one exist, the one where you get the tools to decide yourself, no middleman, no slice taken off the top.
The rails for moving money are already software. The tools for knowing what to do with it are the piece finance never handed the individual.
That is what we are building. New piece on the next disintermediation, and it is not the fee. It is the manager.
Read it here... link below
#fintech #investing #fintwit #WealthTech #ETFs #GCC #MENA
A generation of savers and investors finally want to invest for themselves. The only thing standing in their way is the one thing the industry has always sold them.
American households are sitting on roughly 3.2 trillion dollars of cash above where the pre pandemic trend says they should be.
That is not a rounding error. It is one of the largest pools of idle capital in modern financial history, and almost nobody is talking about what it actually costs to leave it there.
The Fed's own accounts confirm it. The Investment Company Institute puts retail money market fund assets at 3.085 trillion dollars as of mid June 2026, with total money fund assets at a record 8.28 trillion. The pile gathered for a good reason: cash paid close to 4 percent and people who had lived through a decade of zero rates finally got paid to wait.
That reason is fading. Rates are easing, yields are drifting toward 2 to 3 percent, and the long run record on holding cash is brutal. Barclays modelled twenty years of it: after inflation and fees, cash fell 40.5 percent in real terms while a diversified portfolio rose 21.6, a gap of 62 percentage points.
So why does the money sit still? Part of it is fear. Part of it is that the industry built to move this money charges so much to do it. A typical wealth arrangement runs 0.5 to 2 percent a year, and an advertised 1 percent quietly becomes 1.6 once fund fees and account charges stack up. PwC found 89 percent of asset managers under profitability pressure and nearly three fifths of institutional investors ready to fire managers purely over fees.
That is the gap we built Vivé to close. The same systematic research institutions guard behind high fees, delivered for a fraction of the cost, so the investor can reach their own conclusions instead of paying a slice of everything they own to have those conclusions reached for them.
We are a commentary publication, not an adviser, and nothing here is a recommendation. But the case is on the public record, in the Fed's accounts and J.P. Morgan's tables and Barclays' twenty year model. We just laid the whole picture out, honestly and cheaply.
Full piece available on SubStack soon...
American households are sitting on roughly 3.2 trillion dollars of cash above where the pre pandemic trend says they should be.
That is not a rounding error. It is one of the largest pools of idle capital in modern financial history, and almost nobody is talking about what it actually costs to leave it there.
The Fed's own accounts confirm it. The Investment Company Institute puts retail money market fund assets at 3.085 trillion dollars as of mid June 2026, with total money fund assets at a record 8.28 trillion. The pile gathered for a good reason: cash paid close to 4 percent and people who had lived through a decade of zero rates finally got paid to wait.
That reason is fading. Rates are easing, yields are drifting toward 2 to 3 percent, and the long run record on holding cash is brutal. Barclays modelled twenty years of it: after inflation and fees, cash fell 40.5 percent in real terms while a diversified portfolio rose 21.6, a gap of 62 percentage points.
So why does the money sit still? Part of it is fear. Part of it is that the industry built to move this money charges so much to do it. A typical wealth arrangement runs 0.5 to 2 percent a year, and an advertised 1 percent quietly becomes 1.6 once fund fees and account charges stack up. PwC found 89 percent of asset managers under profitability pressure and nearly three fifths of institutional investors ready to fire managers purely over fees.
That is the gap we built Vivé to close. The same systematic research institutions guard behind high fees, delivered for a fraction of the cost, so the investor can reach their own conclusions instead of paying a slice of everything they own to have those conclusions reached for them.
We are a commentary publication, not an adviser, and nothing here is a recommendation. But the case is on the public record, in the Fed's accounts and J.P. Morgan's tables and Barclays' twenty year model. We just laid the whole picture out, honestly and cheaply.
Full piece available on SubStack soon...
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