Financial Essentials

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Extreme valuations for the S&P 500

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/110625-Chart_v2.pdf

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

2026 earnings expectations revised up for Magnificent 7 and down for everyone else

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/110525-Charts.pdf

Friday, October 31, 2025

Profit margins rising for the S&P 7 and declining for the S&P 493

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/10312025-Chart_v2.pdf

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

A rising number of public companies are taken private

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/10292025-Chart_v2.pdf

Monday, October 27, 2025

The Future of Fintech October 2025

https://www.svb.com/globalassets/trendsandinsights/reports/future-of-fintech-report-2025.pdf

Thursday, October 23, 2025

US stock market cap as a share global stock market cap

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/102325-Chart.pdf

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Many fintech companies are offering higher yields on deposits than the banking sector

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/New101225_Chart.pdf

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Every person with a 401(k) account puts on average $2,358 into the Magnificent 7 stocks every year

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/100925_Chart.pdf

Friday, October 3, 2025

Market Concentration At New Record High

https://www.westendadvisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/WEA-Macroeconomic-Highlights-PRES-Q4-2025.pdf

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Bitcoin's Volatile Journey to $1 Trillion Market Cap

https://advisor.morganstanley.com/the-arc-vision-group/documents/field/a/ar/arc-vision-group/Primer_-_Investing_in_Cryptocurrency.pdf

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

It is all about the Mag 7: No upward revisions to 2026 EPS for the S&P 493

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091725-Chart_v2.pdf

Monday, September 15, 2025

Active funds have lagged their respective benchmarks

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/091525-Charts_v2.pdf

Sunday, August 31, 2025

U.S. ECM Activity

https://cdn.hl.com/pdf/2025/cs-ecm-q2-2025.pdf

Friday, August 8, 2025

The weight of the biggest stock in the S&P 500

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/080825_Chart.pdf

Saturday, July 26, 2025

S&P 500 returns are extremely concentrated

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/072525-Chart_v2.pdf

Sunday, July 20, 2025

The market has a short memory

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/072025-Chart_v2.pdf

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

US Equity Market Analysis

https://www.aranca.com/assets/docs/US-Capital-Market-Newsletter-2Q25.pdf

S&P 500 Sector Performance

https://www.sifma.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/SIFMA-Insights-Monthly-Metrics_June_Final.pdf

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Major Secular Dynamics Have Fueled A Regime Shift From Free-Market Globalization To Mercantilism

https://crain-design-hub.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/pi/CalSTRS+PDFs/TRB+2025-07+Item+11+Pres+01.pdf

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Disconnect between Fed expectations and equity markets

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/New070825-Chart_v2.pdf

Sunday, July 6, 2025

Asset Class Signals

https://srlglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Q32025-_Family_Office_Data_Driven_Insights_2.pdf

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Could this wave be bigger than SaaS?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Srl8Y4pBoKtNVYZBxmfj2TEMYM5tp1mE/view

We think a new class of AI winners may take center stage

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Srl8Y4pBoKtNVYZBxmfj2TEMYM5tp1mE/view

Restaurant Industry Market Map

https://cdn.hl.com/pdf/2025/us-restaurant-industry-update-spring-2025.pdf

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Major Booking Centers Will See Strong Growth Through 2029

https://web-assets.bcg.com/56/26/ecb7a6634088816480a6c245cc6f/2025-globalwealthreport-june2025.pdf

CIO ASSET CLASS VIEWS AS OF JUNE 3, 2025

https://grapevinesix.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/d8800a31-c24b-4bf4-96ec-db80da0e9cb5.pdf

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Record-High Foreign Ownership of the US Equity Market

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/061825_Chart.pdf

Deglobalisation and US exceptionalism

https://fundhub.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/MTM2025-Sygnia-Iain-Anderson-v2.pdf

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Global Top 100 companies - by market capitalization

https://www.pwc.co.uk/audit/assets/pdf/global-100/companies/global-top-100-companies-2025.pdf

Thursday, May 29, 2025

The heat map shows key metrics across private equity asset classes.

https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/private%20equity%20and%20principal%20investors/our%20insights/mckinseys%20global%20private%20markets%20report/2025/global-private-markets-report-2025-braced-for-shifting-weather.pdf

More Than 80% of Active Managers in Public Markets Underperform Their Index

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/052925_Chart_V2.pdf

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Software Market Overview

https://www.jefferies.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/05/TMT-IB-Software-Market-Growth-Conference-April-2025-v2.pdf

AI is the tech theme of the decade

https://www.coppercouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/JM25-Sundip-Gantori-UBS.pdf

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

S&P 500 Index Since 1970

https://www.ftportfolios.com/Commentary/Insights/2025/5/2/market-minute---may-2025

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Traditional Portfolio Scorecard by Decade

https://www.calstrs.com/files/b7a0300ec/INV+2025-05+Item+03a+-+Bridgewater+Associates+Prensentation.pdf

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

S&P 500 revenue from China is roughly four times the US trade deficit with China

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/050725_Chart_V3.pdf

Sunday, April 27, 2025

S&P 500 Valuations Remain Elevated Despite the Recent Sell-Off

https://www.alliancebernstein.com/content/dam/global/insights/insights-cmo-gcmo/2q-2025-alliancebernstein-capital-markets-outlook.pdf

Saturday, April 26, 2025

Market Observations - Largest US Equities

https://www.psprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-24-2025-Investment-Committee-Meeting-Materials-1.pdf

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Market impact under different macroeconomic scenarios

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/042325_Chart.pdf

Monday, April 21, 2025

Average Decline in GDP and EPS During Recessions

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/042125_Chart.pdf

Monday, April 14, 2025

The 60/40 portfolio is not doing well

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/041425_Chart.pdf

Saturday, April 12, 2025

The US equity market has seen its market capitalisation outpace its economy, reaching a record-high valuation relative to GDP

https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/2025/04/08/0bf285f5-8d4a-478c-843f-4b4ea81256d5.pdf

Monday, April 7, 2025

Magnificent 7 Hit Harder by Global Slowdown and Potential Retaliation

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/040725-Chart_new2.pdf

Monday, March 17, 2025

Why has the market been resilient amid so many potential disruptions?

https://www.newyorklifeinvestments.com/assets/documents/perspectives/gms-macro-pulse-mar-2025.pdf

How We Look at the FinTech Opportunity

https://cdn.hl.com/pdf/2025/capital-markets-technology-market-update-hl-2025.pdf

Friday, March 7, 2025

S&P 500 put volume buying is near record-high levels

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/030725-Charts_v2.pdf

Sunday, March 2, 2025

multiples of Digital Services companies

https://www.arthos.de/fileadmin/template/public/pdf/arthos-digital-services-02-2025.pdf

Monday, February 24, 2025

Concentration Keeps Growing in Equity Markets

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/022425_Chart.pdf

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Seven questions for investors

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/021925_Chart.pdf

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Almost all the variation in returns in the 60/40 portfolio comes from the equity market

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/021425-Chart.pdf

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