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Thematic equity research applying a concentrated, Pareto-style approach. Recurring subjects include power generation for data centres including geothermal, memory and semiconductor cycles, humanoid robotics and their component supply chains, and the long-run position of the US dollar. Also publishes portfolio updates.
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Recent examples: Pareto Portfolios Update — Oct 2026 · Era of Cheap Capital Is Over. Buy Cash Flows!
Written from The Pareto Investor’s own published post titles and openings in Sep 11, 2026. It describes the subjects the newsletter covers, not its views, and is not investment advice.
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Most-reacted post we have seen: Nuclear Is the New Oil: AI’s Power Bottleneck Trade — 126 reactions on Oct 12, 2026.
Recent posts
- Pareto Portfolios Update — Oct 2026
Pareto Alpha Portfolio – 12 september 2026 Dear investors, I am sending this month’s portfolio update earlier than usual because a great deal has changed in the market over the past two weeks. Higher energy prices are initially bullish for commodities, but beyond a certain point they can become self-defeating by driving inflation, tightening financial conditions, and destroying demand. Rising oil, diesel, and transport costs raise the risk that central banks cannot ease aggressively even if growth slows. That is a more difficult environment for long-duration assets, richly valued cyclicals…
- Era of Cheap Capital Is Over. Buy Cash Flows!
The regime change in one image. Effective Fed Funds has fallen to ∼3.6% while 30-year Treasury pushed above 5.2% — a bear steepener that no Treasury buyback can paper over. Dear investors, For nearly two decades, the most profitable trade in markets was simple. Borrow cheaply. Own duration. Pay high multiples for distant growth. Refinance when necessary. Assume the Federal Reserve would eventually rescue the cost of capital. That trade built fortunes. It also built an entire financial system around one assumption: Long-term money would remain cheap. That assumption is breaking. The assumption…
- Nuclear Is the New Oil: AI’s Power Bottleneck Trade
OpenAI’s audacious infrastructure buildout: Starting at 230 megawatts in 2025, the company projects reaching 2 GW by year-end and scaling to 250 gigawatts by 2033—a capacity rivaling the United States’ 488 GW and surpassing India’s 223 GW. This 1.8x annual growth trajectory represents one of the most aggressive infrastructure expansions in corporate history. Dear investors, Sam Altman just dropped the most expensive prediction in history. By 2033, OpenAI alone is projected to consume 250 gigawatts of energy —more than the entire country of India uses today. In a leaked internal memo (…
- The 30 Best Financial Quotes of All Time
Dear investors, If there is one idea that separates successful long-term investors from perpetual market tourists, it is this: investing rewards patience. Not passive ignorance. Not blind optimism. Not refusing to acknowledge mistakes. Patience. The ability to own productive assets through uncertainty . The discipline to distinguish a temporary decline in price from a permanent deterioration in value. The emotional control to avoid turning a market correction into a life-changing financial mistake. A long-term stock-market chart tells the story better than most textbooks. Data as of Jun 30…
- Pareto Portfolios Update — Oct 2026
Pareto Alpha Portfolio Performance Dear investors, This month’s portfolio update is short on action and important on context. I have made no changes to any of the three Pareto Portfolios. The energy rotation I made on 15 September remains in place. Since then, the market has moved further in the direction that rotation anticipated. Higher energy prices, tight refined-product markets, and renewed inflation risk have strengthened the case for the current positioning rather than changing it. Higher energy prices are initially bullish for commodities, but beyond a certain point they can become…
- Pareto Portfolios Update — Sept 2026
Pareto Alpha Portfolio – 24 august 2026 Dear Investors, August was the month Treasury blinked - not the Fed. For the first time in this cycle, the marginal buyer of long-duration risk was not Powell, but Bessent . The implications for equities, the 60/40 portfolio, and for real assets were immediate. This update covers what happened, why it is structural, and how the three Pareto sleeves were repositioned. What we witnessed in early August was a repricing of sovereign risk. A sharp sell-off in 10-year and 30-year bonds that pushed US borrowing costs to multi-decade highs. The catalyst was…
- These Are the 40 Best Growth Stocks in the World — October 2026 Pareto Screen Results
Only a few companies have dominated historical US stock market returns. Cumulative % of wealth creation of the top 1,100 companies. Source: Hendrik Bessembinder / FT. Dear investors, The stock market is a wealth-creation machine. It is not a wealth-creation machine for the stocks inside it. That distinction is easy to miss. Every year, thousands of companies get sorted by the same variables. Cheapest first. Highest yield first. Lowest debt first. Most oversold first. Highest growth first. Those screens can be useful. But they all make the same mistake. They start with the stock. I want to…
- Refiners: the New Bottleneck Trade!
Vantor satellite captures massive blaze at oil storage facility, thick black smoke blanketing the town—Tuapse Oil Refinery in Tuapse, Russia—April 16, 2026 Dear investors, The market is staring at the wrong barrel. Everyone is watching Brent. Everyone is tracking the Strait of Hormuz. Everyone is asking whether there is enough crude oil in the ground, enough spare capacity in Saudi Arabia, enough tankers still moving through the Gulf. Those questions matter. But they are no longer the question that decides what Americans pay at the pump, what it costs to move freight, what farmers pay to…
- Could Japan Trigger the Next Debt Crisis?
Dear investors, Japan is often treated as a local macro story. A weak yen. An aging population. A cautious central bank . Government debt that has looked alarming for decades without producing the crisis investors expected. That framing is now too narrow. Japan matters because it has spent much of the past three decades exporting capital to the rest of the world. Its banks, insurers, pension funds , corporations, and households have been among the most important providers of savings to global markets. When Japanese interest rates were near zero, Japanese investors had every incentive to seek…
- Geothermal: Next AI Power Trade?
Geothermal aims to unlock gigawatts of power to fuel the data center boom Dear investors, On September 1, 2026, a company most investors had never heard of jumped 28% in a single trading session on 35 million shares of volume — roughly nine times its average. The trigger wasn’t an earnings beat. It wasn’t a buyout rumor. It was a power-purchase agreement : Alphabet’s Google had just signed on for 396 megawatts of electricity from a technology that supply under half a percent of America’s grid. The company is Fervo Energy ($FRVO). The technology is enhanced geothermal. And the reason Google is…
- The Dollar Is Near Its Final Days!
The old rules are over. The eagle is in a sling. Dear investors, On December 5, 1791, a 34-year-old immigrant with no inheritance, no family name, and no formal country of origin climbed the steps of the U.S. Congress carrying a document under his arm. His name was Alexander Hamilton. He had arrived in New York as a penniless teenager from a small Caribbean island. Fifteen years later he was George Washington’s right hand. He became the first Treasury Secretary in American history, and the document he carried — the Report on Manufactures — argued something that sounded almost heretical to a…
- Pareto Portfolios Update — August 2026
Pareto Alpha Portfolio – 25 July 2026 Dear Investors, As I flagged last update , a rotation out of AI names and into steadier, less glamorous businesses looked increasingly likely. It’s here. AI stocks are correcting, and capital is rotating into energy, healthcare, financials, and consumer staples. Samsung’s ($SSNLF) results were nothing short of extraordinary — $59 billion in quarterly operating profit on $113 billion in revenue — and Google’s ($GOOGL) were no different, with revenue up 24% to $119.8 billion and operating income up 30% to $40.8 billion. The market’s response was to sell…
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