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Build a Barbell — Closelook Heresy III

Why the orthodox toolkit of the asset management industry is structurally broken — what replaces it — and a worked example that delivers a live XIRR of +109%.

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Thomas Look
May 16, 2026
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Why the orthodox toolkit of the asset management industry is structurally broken — what replaces it — and the only worked example we know that delivers a live XIRR of +109%.

In Heresy I, we said don’t buy US stocks. The standard rebuttal was: “Fine, diversify globally.”

In Heresy II, we showed why that rebuttal fails — Bessembinder, Chen, Choi, and Wei (2…

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