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Spotting implausible growth assumptions in US large-caps
By backing out market-implied earnings growth for US large-caps, we highlight where valuations depend on implausible growth assumptions — and adjust our Titanium Birch portfolio accordingly.
Inside my first 100 days at Titanium Birch
What’s it like to start at Titanium Birch? Zsolt reflects on his first 100 days, from onboarding and tackling big projects to learning every single day.
“Lazy” bookkeeping: Our approach to automating bookkeeping and reconciliation
TJ explains how we’ve automated bookkeeping and reconciliation with a “lazy” approach that ensures the highest quality possible given the data available at different points in time.
Open-sourcing our code for getting data from banks and brokers
Announcing the open-sourcing of SFTP Wrangler, code to make it easy to receive files via SFTP using the AWS Transfer Family service.
Using Arch to streamline oversight of our alternative investments
TJ walks us through the challenges of wrangling data about our private market fund investments — and how we’ve integrated Arch to reduce toil.
How a generalist like me found a home at an investment firm
Justina here. I never expected I’d end up at an investment firm. Here’s how my unconventional career led me to Titanium Birch (and how being a generalist has turned out to be useful!).
Introducing Titanium Birch’s new office
We’ve moved into our new office in downtown Singapore! This post shares how we chose the space, designed it for deep work and collaboration, and what we learned along the way.
Ode to accounting: A lesson from my time as an entrepreneur
Peter Burchhardt sings the praises of fast and machine-accessible accounting for businesses.
TJ’s talk on automating accounting and investment reporting at Singapore dbt Meetup event
On Thursday, August 29, 2024, TJ gave a talk on automating accounting and investment reporting with dbt at a Singapore dbt Meetup event. 🍕🍺🤖
Standardising disparate data feeds for investment reporting and accounting
TJ P discusses some challenges of handling data from banks and brokers, then explains our standardisation and automation processes for streamlining bookkeeping and creating accurate financial statements.
Portfolio accounting and investment reporting
Peter Burchhardt discusses Titanium Birch’s approach to solving challenges in accounting and investment reporting consolidated across multiple entities.
50% of companies we know have domains that are vulnerable to email spoofing
We’ve been running due diligence on the various companies we interact with, including vendors and investment targets. One element of our process has been to assess a firm’s email security risks.
Our investment firm’s cyber threat model
Peter Burchhardt shares insights about the cyber threats facing our firm and our mitigation strategies for a few particularly relevant ones. We hope what we share here will help others reduce their risks.
Our chain of IT tools
In this blog post, you’ll find a list of IT tools we use to run Titanium Birch