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The Boring Case for Bonds - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

Bonds are boring. Right now, that's the point.
On 1 October the 30-year gilt yield went above 6% for the first time since 1998. On 7 October it peaked at 6.04%, and the 10-year was at 5.48%. Short bonds aren't left out either. Britain's 5-year auction on 27 October paid an average of 5.04%, the highest since 2008. Yields dipped slightly after the Budget, but they're still high.
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

Drowning in AI Content? How to Stay Informed, and How to Be Worth Reading - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

The flip side is that you want to be one of those trusted sources.
Trust is the goal. Google describes E-E-A-T (experience, expertise, authoritativeness, trustworthiness) as a way to understand good content. It says trust is the most important of the four. It also says E-E-A-T isn't a single ranking factor, so there's no "E-E-A-T score" to game. It matters most on topics affecting health, financial stability or safety, which is why my finance clients need to take it seriously. Google's "Who, How...
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

The Mirror on the Wall: What the AI Consciousness Debate Really Tells Us About Ourselves - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

A few days ago, the New York Timespublished a piece that stopped me mid-scroll. The headline: Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
The story that followed was remarkable. According to reports, for months, Anthropic has been hosting private meetings, shuttling in numerous religious scholars from around the world and requiring them to sign nondisclosure agreements — all to discuss whether their AI system, Claude, might be conscious. Some participants reportedly beli...
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

What Does Effective Financial Content Look Like in 2026? - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

Here is the problem that most financial brands are not yet willing to state plainly: the volume of financial content published online has increased by several orders of magnitude since 2023, and almost none of the increase represents any measurable improvement in the quality of financial information available to professional readers. Language models can produce grammatically correct, structurally complete, topically accurate financial content at essentially zero marginal cost.
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

What Is a Finance SME? Guide to Financial Subject Matter Experts - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

It is a picture well known to many CFOs: staring at spreadsheets that won't reconcile. A regulatory deadline looming on Monday morning, but the complexity of new IFRS standards has everyone second-guessing their work. Meanwhile, your board wants a strategic assessment of a potential acquisition by Monday's emergency meeting.
This scenario plays out across organisations worldwide as approximately 83% of financial executives report facing a talent shortage according to recent surveys. The question...
Photo by www.kaboompics.com on Pexels
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

The Double Standard of Innovation: How China's Technology 'Theft' Saves The World

The West has a complicated relationship with intellectual property. We celebrate it when it protects our inventions. We condemn it as theft when others use the same techniques we employ ourselves. Nowhere is this tension more visible than in two industries that will define this century: renewable energy and artificial intelligence.China has now played a pivotal role in the world twice through what Western companies call intellectual property theft. First, by manufacturing solar panels at a scale...
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G.C. Wagner, CFA | Financial Modeling, Content & S •

Is AI causing another ‘mass formation psychosis’?

I recently read an article in the Guardian that OpenAI is looking to float at a $1trn (a trillion, yep!) valuation. My initial cynical and satirical reaction to it was:
“AI — the greatest grift: First steal millions of copyrighted works, then pay poor people $2 an hour to annotate the data, make absurd claims about AGI and curing cancer and finally float at 1trn.”
But while this may be satirical and cynical, I am interested in what is really going on, on a deeper level as well, and not only in...
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Financial Modeling, Content & S •

If Cows Can Fly: What to Expect from the Beyond Meat Short Squeeze - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Financial Modeling, Content & Strategy

I remember 2019, I was in Greece for a friend's wedding, and Beyond Meat was the most anticipated IPO of the year. As both a vegan and a stock market investor, this was a company I was deeply passionate about. I sat by my phone on the Interactive Brokers mobile app for hours, waiting for the stock to finally open for trading to snipe it at first print.
The IPO was massively oversubscribed, and when it finally printed, it was far higher than the IPO price or where I thought it would open. Nevert...

Views on my blog are my own

G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

The Boring Case for Bonds - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

Bonds are boring. Right now, that's the point.
On 1 October the 30-year gilt yield went above 6% for the first time since 1998. On 7 October it peaked at 6.04%, and the 10-year was at 5.48%. Short bonds aren't left out either. Britain's 5-year auction on 27 October paid an average of 5.04%, the highest since 2008. Yields dipped slightly after the Budget, but they're still high.
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

Drowning in AI Content? How to Stay Informed, and How to Be Worth Reading - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

The flip side is that you want to be one of those trusted sources.
Trust is the goal. Google describes E-E-A-T (experience, expertise, authoritativeness, trustworthiness) as a way to understand good content. It says trust is the most important of the four. It also says E-E-A-T isn't a single ranking factor, so there's no "E-E-A-T score" to game. It matters most on topics affecting health, financial stability or safety, which is why my finance clients need to take it seriously. Google's "Who, How...
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

The Mirror on the Wall: What the AI Consciousness Debate Really Tells Us About Ourselves - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

A few days ago, the New York Timespublished a piece that stopped me mid-scroll. The headline: Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
The story that followed was remarkable. According to reports, for months, Anthropic has been hosting private meetings, shuttling in numerous religious scholars from around the world and requiring them to sign nondisclosure agreements — all to discuss whether their AI system, Claude, might be conscious. Some participants reportedly beli...
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

What Does Effective Financial Content Look Like in 2026? - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

Here is the problem that most financial brands are not yet willing to state plainly: the volume of financial content published online has increased by several orders of magnitude since 2023, and almost none of the increase represents any measurable improvement in the quality of financial information available to professional readers. Language models can produce grammatically correct, structurally complete, topically accurate financial content at essentially zero marginal cost.
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

What Is a Finance SME? Guide to Financial Subject Matter Experts - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

It is a picture well known to many CFOs: staring at spreadsheets that won't reconcile. A regulatory deadline looming on Monday morning, but the complexity of new IFRS standards has everyone second-guessing their work. Meanwhile, your board wants a strategic assessment of a potential acquisition by Monday's emergency meeting.
This scenario plays out across organisations worldwide as approximately 83% of financial executives report facing a talent shortage according to recent surveys. The question...
Photo by www.kaboompics.com on Pexels
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

The Double Standard of Innovation: How China's Technology 'Theft' Saves The World

The West has a complicated relationship with intellectual property. We celebrate it when it protects our inventions. We condemn it as theft when others use the same techniques we employ ourselves. Nowhere is this tension more visible than in two industries that will define this century: renewable energy and artificial intelligence.China has now played a pivotal role in the world twice through what Western companies call intellectual property theft. First, by manufacturing solar panels at a scale...
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Financial Modeling, Content & S •

Is AI causing another ‘mass formation psychosis’?

I recently read an article in the Guardian that OpenAI is looking to float at a $1trn (a trillion, yep!) valuation. My initial cynical and satirical reaction to it was:
“AI — the greatest grift: First steal millions of copyrighted works, then pay poor people $2 an hour to annotate the data, make absurd claims about AGI and curing cancer and finally float at 1trn.”
But while this may be satirical and cynical, I am interested in what is really going on, on a deeper level as well, and not only in...
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Financial Modeling, Content & S •

If Cows Can Fly: What to Expect from the Beyond Meat Short Squeeze - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Financial Modeling, Content & Strategy

I remember 2019, I was in Greece for a friend's wedding, and Beyond Meat was the most anticipated IPO of the year. As both a vegan and a stock market investor, this was a company I was deeply passionate about. I sat by my phone on the Interactive Brokers mobile app for hours, waiting for the stock to finally open for trading to snipe it at first print.
The IPO was massively oversubscribed, and when it finally printed, it was far higher than the IPO price or where I thought it would open. Nevert...

Views on my blog are my own

G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

The Boring Case for Bonds - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

Bonds are boring. Right now, that's the point.
On 1 October the 30-year gilt yield went above 6% for the first time since 1998. On 7 October it peaked at 6.04%, and the 10-year was at 5.48%. Short bonds aren't left out either. Britain's 5-year auction on 27 October paid an average of 5.04%, the highest since 2008. Yields dipped slightly after the Budget, but they're still high.
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

Drowning in AI Content? How to Stay Informed, and How to Be Worth Reading - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

The flip side is that you want to be one of those trusted sources.
Trust is the goal. Google describes E-E-A-T (experience, expertise, authoritativeness, trustworthiness) as a way to understand good content. It says trust is the most important of the four. It also says E-E-A-T isn't a single ranking factor, so there's no "E-E-A-T score" to game. It matters most on topics affecting health, financial stability or safety, which is why my finance clients need to take it seriously. Google's "Who, How...
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

The Mirror on the Wall: What the AI Consciousness Debate Really Tells Us About Ourselves - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

A few days ago, the New York Timespublished a piece that stopped me mid-scroll. The headline: Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
The story that followed was remarkable. According to reports, for months, Anthropic has been hosting private meetings, shuttling in numerous religious scholars from around the world and requiring them to sign nondisclosure agreements — all to discuss whether their AI system, Claude, might be conscious. Some participants reportedly beli...
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

What Does Effective Financial Content Look Like in 2026? - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

Here is the problem that most financial brands are not yet willing to state plainly: the volume of financial content published online has increased by several orders of magnitude since 2023, and almost none of the increase represents any measurable improvement in the quality of financial information available to professional readers. Language models can produce grammatically correct, structurally complete, topically accurate financial content at essentially zero marginal cost.
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

What Is a Finance SME? Guide to Financial Subject Matter Experts - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial Modeling

It is a picture well known to many CFOs: staring at spreadsheets that won't reconcile. A regulatory deadline looming on Monday morning, but the complexity of new IFRS standards has everyone second-guessing their work. Meanwhile, your board wants a strategic assessment of a potential acquisition by Monday's emergency meeting.
This scenario plays out across organisations worldwide as approximately 83% of financial executives report facing a talent shortage according to recent surveys. The question...
Photo by www.kaboompics.com on Pexels
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Content & Strategy, Financial M •

The Double Standard of Innovation: How China's Technology 'Theft' Saves The World

The West has a complicated relationship with intellectual property. We celebrate it when it protects our inventions. We condemn it as theft when others use the same techniques we employ ourselves. Nowhere is this tension more visible than in two industries that will define this century: renewable energy and artificial intelligence.China has now played a pivotal role in the world twice through what Western companies call intellectual property theft. First, by manufacturing solar panels at a scale...
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Financial Modeling, Content & S •

Is AI causing another ‘mass formation psychosis’?

I recently read an article in the Guardian that OpenAI is looking to float at a $1trn (a trillion, yep!) valuation. My initial cynical and satirical reaction to it was:
“AI — the greatest grift: First steal millions of copyrighted works, then pay poor people $2 an hour to annotate the data, make absurd claims about AGI and curing cancer and finally float at 1trn.”
But while this may be satirical and cynical, I am interested in what is really going on, on a deeper level as well, and not only in...
G.C. Wagner, CFA | Financial Modeling, Content & S •

If Cows Can Fly: What to Expect from the Beyond Meat Short Squeeze - G.C. Wagner, CFA | Financial Modeling, Content & Strategy

I remember 2019, I was in Greece for a friend's wedding, and Beyond Meat was the most anticipated IPO of the year. As both a vegan and a stock market investor, this was a company I was deeply passionate about. I sat by my phone on the Interactive Brokers mobile app for hours, waiting for the stock to finally open for trading to snipe it at first print.
The IPO was massively oversubscribed, and when it finally printed, it was far higher than the IPO price or where I thought it would open. Nevert...

Disclaimer: This content is intended for general informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, legal, tax or accounting advice. I make no representations or warranties about the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of the information provided. The author has a position in Beyond Meat (BYND). Please conduct your own research and/or consult with a qualified professional for advice tailored to your individual circumstances before making any investment decisions.