Friday links: keeping life at bay

ETFs

• He is looking for good ETF tickers. (bloomberg.com)
• Fidelity is converting two muni bond funds into ETFs. (advisorhub.com)
• Will investors opt for PE-replicating ETFs? (ft.com)

Finance

• How big is the private loan? (marketwatch.com)
• What does the new CEO of Vanguard have. (barrons.com)

Venture capital

• Why aren’t more VCs returning capital? (spyglass.org)
• How the VC industry could bifurcate. (sherwood.news)
• Mario Gabriele, “Avra Capital is a trade school that monetizes through VC.” (thegeneralist.substack.com)

Food

• How chicken tenders took over America. (nytimes.com)
• PepsiCo ($PEP) is buying Mexican American company Siete Foods for $1.2 billion. (cnbc.com)
• How Campbell ($CPB) is building the Rao’s brand. (fooddive.com)

Obesity

• Some evidence that GLP-1 drives us towards ‘maximal obesity’. (ft.com)
• Zepbound and Mounjaro are no longer in short supply. (biopharmadive.com)
• How GLP-1 use changes motivations and cravings. (theatlantic.com)

Economy

• The US labor economy is in full swing with a solid September NFP report. (calculatedriskblog.com)
• Another sign that the US economy is headed for a soft landing. (bonddad.blogspot.com)
• Pandemic-era startups are starting to pay off for the economy. (nytimes.com)

Earlier, about Abnormal Returns

• Podcast Links: AI Episodes. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed at our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Long-form links: a hierarchy of values. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Are you a financial advisor looking for out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly email newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed medium

• Do you want a promotion? Back in the office. (theatlantic.com)
• Lessons learned from 20 years of investment blogging. (rogersplanning.blogspot.com)
• 14 Life Lessons From Iron Maiden Including ‘Build A Resilient Career’ (ryanholiday.net)