Thematic Reading: Week of August 12, 2019
Each week Team Tematica consumes a voracious amount of content as we look to stay on top of the latest data and mine it for tailwind and headwind signals for our 10 investment themes. For those that are less familiar with our investment themes, we’d suggest you visit or in some cases revisit this before proceeding further.
Below we’ve cobbled together a subset of the articles that caught our thematic eye over the last several days. As you can see this list not only touch on several aspects of our investment themes but the sources of these articles are rather diverse as well. In our view, this confirms not only the pervasive nature of our investment themes but the degree to which they are recognizable in the world around us, provided that one is seeing, listening and thinking thematically.
- Aging of the Population and Middle-Class Squeeze: The boomers going bust: why elderly bankruptcy is rising in America (FT)
- Cleaner Living: Lidl joins the war on plastic with reusable fruit & veg bags (Retail Gazette)
- Cleaner Living: The Impossible Burger Is Coming To More College Campuses With New Launch (Forbes)
- Cleaner Living: America Wins Act proposes to tax carbon pollution, invest over $1 trillion into infrastructure development (Transportation Today)
- Digital Innovators: Business travel startups are transforming the industry (Raconteur)
- Digital Innovators: Postmates expects to land first-ever permit to test sidewalk delivery robots in San Francisco (TechCrunch)
- Digital Infrastructure: Armstrong Turns to Plume for Managed Wi-Fi (Telecompetitor)
- Digital Lifestyle: Nearly 25% of households will ditch traditional TV by 2022 (CNBC)
- Digital Lifestyle and Middle-class Squeeze: Department stores could have a ‘sobering’ Christmas, Credit Suisse warns (CNBC)
- Digital Lifestyle and Middle-class Squeeze: Fashion rental competition is increasing (Fortune)
- Guilty Pleasure: Liquor Ties Wine as Second-Favorite Adult Beverage in
U.S. (Gallup) - Guilty Pleasure: Hershey announces price hike on chocolate bars as
company’s top line continues to improve (Confectionary News) - Living the Life and The New Middle-class: Tiffany & Co. to Open in India With Local Billionaire(Fortune)
- Middle-Class Squeeze: US retailers ‘at war’ with suppliers over price increases (FT)
- Middle-Class Squeeze: Car dealers struggle to sell 2018 new-car inventory to make room for 2020 cars (CNBC)
- Middle-Class Squeeze: That offer to make you debt free? (WSJ)
- Safety & Security: Cyberattacks find
easy target innation’s schools (The Hill) - Safety & Security: New Risk Guidance Being Developed for Cybersecurity, Compliance (WSJ)
- Safety & Security: Staying on the Cutting Edge of Cybersecurity (InfoSecurity)