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2025-06-04
UC Capital is the Taiwanese firm that purchased the commemorative ball marking Shohei Ohtani’s 50 homers and 50 steals in a single season. Headquartered in Taipei, it is a quantitative proprietary trading firm. By focusing on high-frequency proprietary trading of Taiwanese stocks, ETFs, and derivatives, the firm—operating as a single quant fund—has become one of the leading institutional players in Taiwan’s financial markets. This article provides a brief introduction to the company and its investment strategies, along with an overview of its corporate culture and its strong performance in recent years.
# Investment
# Taiwan
# Investment Strategy
Bridgewater Associates is one of the largest hedge funds in the world, renowned for its unique investment strategies and long-term, consistent performance. It holds a significant and influential position in the financial industry. This article shares the story behind Bridgewater’s founding, its investment approach, and the background of its founder, Ray Dalio. It also examines Bridgewater’s latest 13F filing to analyze its current holdings and infer its present investment outlook.
# Financial Lessons
# Stocks
On May 3rd of this year, Warren Buffett officially announced at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting that he will be retiring by the end of the year. He also named Greg Abel as his successor and the company’s next CEO. This article reviews Buffett’s investment philosophy and Berkshire Hathaway’s investment approach, while also briefly introducing the background of incoming CEO Greg Abel.
# Long-term Investment
2025-03-17
Equity is a fundamental concept of business ownership that influences corporate governance, capital raising, and investment decisions. This article begins with the basics of equity, explaining how shareholders participate in a company’s operations through ownership. It outlines shareholders’ rights and obligations, including the right to profit distribution, voting rights, claims to residual assets, and access to company information. The article also explores various types of equity—such as common stock, preferred stock, and restricted shares—as well as the investment risks and responsibilities shareholders must bear. Through these discussions, readers gain a clearer understanding of how equity functions.
# Beginners Guide
2025-02-20
Unlike its intuitive meaning, goodwill in accounting refers to a key item that reflects a company’s value during a merger or acquisition (M&A). It represents a company’s intangible assets and signifies the acquiring firm's recognition of the target company's brand, customer relationships, and market position. This article provides an in-depth analysis of goodwill’s critical role in M&A, explaining its underlying significance, calculation methods, and impact on financial statements. Finally, it illustrates these concepts with the well-known case of Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram.
# Fundamental Analysis
# Editor's Pick
2024-12-23
EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) is a widely used financial metric for assessing a company's core profitability, eliminating non-operational factors that may distort financial performance. This article explores the definition, formula, and advantages of EBITDA, along with practical applications. Additionally, the article discusses the limitations of EBITDA, including its exclusion of capital expenditures and comparability issues as a non-GAAP metric.
2024-10-18
Nvidia's 1-for-10 stock split attracted market attention by making the stock more accessible to a broader range of investors. A stock split is a way to restructure a company's shares, adjusting the price per share while altering the total number of shares without changing the company's total market capitalization. Stock splits can be either forward or reverse. Forward splits reduce the share price, increase liquidity, and attract more investors, and reverse splits works vice versa. Although a stock split does not affect the company's intrinsic value, it can influence market psychology and investor behavior.
# Financial Tools
Enron was an energy company once hailed as the most innovative company in the U.S. However, as its business expanded, Enron began using "mark-to-market" accounting and set up Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) to hide debt and manipulate its financial statements. This manipulation made the company's financial health appear strong, causing its stock price to soar, while in reality, it faced serious financial difficulties. In 2001, Enron's financial practices came under scrutiny, leading to its bankruptcy. In the aftermath of the Enron scandal, the U.S. passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to strengthen financial regulation and revised accounting standards.
# Investment Analysis
# USA
ROA and ROE are indicators, as they help assess a company’s long-term investment value. ROA (Return on Assets) reflects how efficiently a company uses its assets, showing how well the business converts assets into profits over a specific period. ROE (Return on Equity) measures a company’s ability to generate returns for shareholders, indicating how efficiently the company uses shareholders' capital to make profits. Both ROA and ROE are useful for comparing companies within the same industry, revealing management capability and long-term trend shifts.
A narrow-based security index refers to an index dominated by a small number of constituent stocks, leading to a higher concentration. According to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), an index is considered narrow-based if it meets any of the following criteria: it has fewer than 9 constituent stocks, a single stock accounts for more than 30%, or the top 5 stocks together exceed 60% of the total index weight. In contrast, a broad-based index has a larger number of constituents and covers a wider market scope. Recently, due to the rise in TSMC's stock price, the Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Index (TAIEX) has been reclassified as a narrow-based index, drawing significant market attention.
