Simpson Thacher: California’s Venture Capital Diversity Reporting Deadline Approaches
Simpson Thacher: California’s Venture Capital Diversity Reporting Deadline Approaches February 25th, 2026
AICA Member Profile: XA Investments
XA Investments (XAI) is a Chicago-based investment management and consulting firm founded in early 2016 by Kimberly Flynn and the founders of XMS Capital Partners (XMS), Ted Brombach and John Spence. XAI focuses on listed closed-end funds (CEFs) and interval funds across two distinct practice areas:
ASA Gold’s Merk on how precious metals will respond in a coming recession
Axel Merk, chief investment officer for the ASA Gold and Precious Metals fund, says that gold prices are most tightly correlated to "the confidence the market has in the central bank to manage inflation over time," so gold's rally over the last six weeks...


