Private Credit Market Monitor - Q2 2026

Anton Heese and Matas Vala explore the Quantitative Duration Strategy Model, one of the proprietary tools the team uses to enhance their investment process, as it helps provide structure and rigour with identifying and processing relevant and important data.

Humanoid robots sit at the intersection of hardware, AI, manufacturing, real-world data and customer integration. Longer-term value may depend more on intelligence, software and fleet learning. Jerry Pang and Rose Kim examine how China’s humanoid robots are beginning to move from televised spectacles to manufacturing and commercial roles.

Use The BEAT™ as your timely resource for the markets. Each edition gives you ideas and insights that show you how to navigate the current investment environment.

We review the wisdom of crowds in the context of prediction markets, sports betting markets, parimutuel betting markets, and the stock market. For each, we describe the market, give a history, examine its accuracy, see how it aggregates information, check for diversity breakdowns, and consider the role of incentives. The betting markets are zero-sum, but the stock market has positive expected returns. Understanding how markets work is useful for evaluating opportunities for excess returns.