When Passive Money Meets Mega IPOs | Protect the Pile Episode 13

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of liquidity on market strength and the implications of massive IPOs on passive investing.

In this episode of Protect the Pile, the team covers liquidity-driven market strength, record S&P levels, resilient global equities, and oil’s strange weakness despite tightening inventories. Patrick Kent, Sam Rahman, David Salem, and new HAM portfolio manager Brooks Cutright discuss index mechanics, free-float rules, profitability tests, and how massive IPOs could reshape passive buying. Sam shares takeaways from Bernstein’s conference, including AI data-center delays, power constraints,...

People in this episode

Hosts: Patrick Kent, Sam Rahman, David Salem

Guest: Brooks Cutright

Topics covered

• liquidity-driven market strength
• S&P levels
• global equities
• oil inventories
• index mechanics
• massive IPOs

Keywords

• liquidity
• S&P
• global equities
• oil
• IPO
• index mechanics
• AI
• data-center

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bernstein

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