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Active Fund Managers Cite AI as Alpha Killer as Passive Strategies Gain Ground

Prominent value investor Guy Spier declares traditional stock-picking "doesn't work any more" as AI tools erode active managers' research edge. Spier warns his probability of outperformance has declined further as automation makes overlooked market opportunities scarce. Passive vehicles now command higher analyst ratings, with Vanguard's S&P 500 Growth ETF carrying 40%+ upside targets.

LM Salvado•Mar 30, 2026

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AI Funding Surge: Capital Floods Fintech, Foundation Models, and Autonomous Systems

A concentrated burst of AI-linked funding on 2026-08-28 pushed well over $1.5B into companies spanning fraud/identity fintech (Socure, which also acquired Fravity), foundation models (Stability AI), AI agents and enterprise tooling (Instinct, Generalist AI, Emerald AI, Owner), and AI-adjacent autonomous/aerospace ventures (Gatik, Regent Craft). The breadth and simultaneity of these rounds signal that investor appetite for AI is not concentrated in a single vertical but is broadening into applied and infrastructure-adjacent domains, with consolidation (Socure-Fravity) beginning alongside fresh capital formation.

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EPKINLY Regulatory-Clinical Success Cascade

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Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

The same metric (eps) for the same entity (Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC) reported for the identical fiscal period (Q1 2026) and observation date (2026-03-31) has two conflicting values: 3.43 USD_per_share vs 3.08 USD. This is not a temporal change — both observations claim to measure the same point in time. The ~10% discrepancy (0.35 USD difference) is material for a financial metric.

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