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Will AI surpasses human-level intelligence? And when is this likely to happen? We are taking about Human-level AI, often referred to as...
Arjan Bartlema
Jan 9, 20242 min read
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๐ ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ค๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฒ
In just 50 years, the microprocessor technology experienced a 100-billion-fold improvement, right on schedule for Moore's Law. Hereโs a...
Arjan Bartlema
Jan 9, 20241 min read
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๐๐จ ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ซ
Strange that. But not strange at all. If you go to first principles, every individual is driven by incentives: pain and pleasure. So when...
Arjan Bartlema
Oct 11, 20231 min read
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๐๐ข๐ญ๐๐จ๐ข๐ง ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ-๐ซ๐ข๐๐ก ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ
After El Salvador, Costa Rica and Bhutan, Indonesia has recently joined the list of countries that have already started or soon intend to...
Arjan Bartlema
Oct 11, 20232 min read
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๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฌ
I spent my previous life in corporate finance buying and selling companies this was in the 1990s and the word EBITDA was not yet...
Arjan Bartlema
Oct 11, 20232 min read
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๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐๐%
It was only a few months back that we reported on Majorel being acquired leading to a spike in price of 40%. Now on 10 July 2023 another...
Arjan Bartlema
Oct 11, 20231 min read
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SBM is a sharemarket darling, but a Sell with us
SBM Offshore is rated a Buy or Strong Buy by many analysts. In the magazine for investors Effect (issue 6 June 2023), SBM Offshore is...
Arjan Bartlema
Jun 27, 20231 min read
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Majorel shoots up 40%
On Wednesday 26 April 2023 after a takeover bid the price of the somewhat unknown Majorel Group Luxembourg S.A. spiked. Just a month...
Arjan Bartlema
Jun 7, 20231 min read
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๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ค๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐ง ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐๐ฌ
Giffen goods are a peculiar phenomenon in economics where an increase in the price of a good leads to an increase in its quantity...
Arjan Bartlema
Jun 7, 20232 min read
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Momentum is your friend
Our Quant model generates an active return of ~10% p.a. on average, over the medium term. And now Momentum is an additional filter that...
Arjan Bartlema
Jun 7, 20231 min read
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Build a best of breed company in a dematerialising world (cont)
I used the Christmas break to ponder what such a company would be. As this is the follow-up of the last post please see the earlier post...
Arjan Bartlema
Jun 7, 20232 min read
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Build a best of breed company in a dematerialising world
First of all, there is no perfect company. Only a company that responds perfectly to its ever changing environment. And boy, is our...
Arjan Bartlema
Jun 7, 20231 min read
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๐๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ซ
Randstad NV has been performing solidly since it has been an Outperform in Sept '22 and was added to our portfolio. It has a fortress...
Arjan Bartlema
Nov 30, 20221 min read
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Arjan Bartlema
May 3, 20220 min read
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Creative destruction Squared
We live in a changing world, massively changing. Where business models need to adapt to digital or falter. When Joseph Schumpeter coined...
Arjan Bartlema
Apr 15, 20221 min read
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PEAD-effect - another trap to avoid
In financial economics and accounting research, postโearnings-announcement drift or PEAD (also named the SUE effect) is the tendency for...
Arjan Bartlema
Mar 31, 20221 min read
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Why Everything That Should Hurt Bitcoin Only Makes It Stronger
Bitcoin loves being attacked. Bitcoin especially likes it when something tries to kill it. And itโs also very fond of people trying to...
Arjan Bartlema
May 25, 20213 min read
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Why Bitcoin is the Path to Economic Stability
โBitcoin is extremely volatileโ say the journalists, economists and bankers. Is it though? If you were on a boat that was being tossed...
Tomer Strolight
Apr 14, 20213 min read
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Bitcoin - digital gold
Bitcoin is growing up. It is therefore more than 10 years old and cannot be ignored. In fact, it can never be removed. It is the new...
Arjan Bartlema
Apr 14, 20211 min read
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Ctac small but cool
Ctac has been an Outperform for some time now. A great Dutch company operating in the IT / cloud sector. A clear growth market with...
Arjan Bartlema
Apr 14, 20211 min read
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