Friday links: securing the bag

MarketsWhat's going on with silver? (capitalspectator.com)The case for rotating into real world companies. (latticework.com)Quant stuffRenaissance Technologies' public funds have had a volatile year. (wsj.com)2025 saw big performance divergences among quant funds. (ft.com)Fund managementWealthfront ($WLTH) is now public. (barrons.com)First Eagle Investments to acquire Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. ($DHIL). (investing.com)How Avantis Investors gathered $100 billion in AUM in six years. (riabiz.com)Fidelity is expanding access to tax loss harvesting tools. (thinkadvisor.com)Venture capitalBig seed rounds saw a surge in 2025. (news.crunchbase.com)VC-backed startup founder age is steadily increasing. (tomtunguz.com)Earlier on Abnormal ReturnsPodcast links: learning the wrong lessons. (abnormalreturns.com)What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)Longform links: learning something new. (abnormalreturns.com)Don't miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newslett