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Finextra
3 hours ago
- Business
- Finextra
Third Bridge and Portrait Analytics partner on AI-powered investment research
Third Bridge, the global expert network and research provider, today announced its collaboration with Portrait Analytics, a personalized AI-powered investment research platform. 0 This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. This partnership underscores Third Bridge's commitment to ensuring expert insights are seamlessly embedded within clients' existing research workflows. Among a growing number of partners, this collaboration with Portrait enables clients to derive even greater value from Third Bridge's premium content. Combining Third Bridge's unparalleled library of expert interviews with Portrait Analytics' innovative AI capabilities streamlines how institutional investors blend qualitative insights with LLM-supported analysis. Clients can now leverage Portrait's platform to discover, research, and monitor investment ideas with unprecedented depth, enriched by real-time perspectives from Third Bridge's extensive network of industry experts. Mike Grubert, Managing Director at Third Bridge, stated, 'Our commitment at Third Bridge is to equip the world's decision-makers with the high-quality insights they need, precisely when and where they need them. Partnering with Portrait Analytics allows us to deliver on this promise by embedding our trusted expert insights directly into the sophisticated, AI-driven research workflows that some of our clients are already utilizing, truly meeting them where they are.' Portrait Analytics' platform empowers investors to screen for companies based on nuanced qualitative and quantitative criteria, surfacing relevant opportunities that align with their investment objectives. This powerful combination ensures that Third Bridge subscribers on the Portrait platform can instantly access and leverage the depth and breadth of high-quality expert insights, facilitating more efficient due diligence and the development of differentiated investment theses. 'Investors are excited by AI's potential to add leverage to the research process, but are struggling to integrate this technology with critical data sources,' said David Plon, CEO and co-founder of Portrait Analytics. 'Integrating Third Bridge's extensive library of unparalleled expert insights into our leading AI platform is a major step towards helping our users fully unlock the value of this research for creative idea generation and thesis development.'
Miami Herald
7 hours ago
- Business
- Miami Herald
Portrait Analytics and Third Bridge Partner to Deliver Ai-Driven Investment Research with Human Insight
The new partnership combines Third Bridge's world leading library of expert interviews with Portrait's AI-driven research tools, streamlining how institutional investors blend qualitative insight with quantitative analysis. NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / July 29, 2025 / Portrait Analytics, the leading personalized AI-powered investment research platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Third Bridge, a leading global expert network and investment research provider. Embedding Third Bridge's unparalleled library of high-quality expert interviews directly into the Portrait platform will create a one-stop research environment for institutional investors. This collaboration addresses a growing need in public market investing: combining state-of-the-art AI capabilities with powerful qualitative insights from trusted experts. Instead of switching between siloed tools or stitching together AI workflows manually, investors can now leverage AI to seamlessly surface real-time expert perspectives at the moment they're discovering, researching, and monitoring an investment thesis. "Investors are excited by AI's potential to add leverage to the research process, but are struggling to integrate this technology with critical data sources," said David Plon, CEO and co-founder of Portrait Analytics. "Integrating Third Bridge's extensive library of expert insights and company intelligence into our leading AI platform is a major step towards helping our users fully unlock the value of this research for creative idea generation and thesis development." This partnership benefits institutional investors, particularly hedge funds and asset managers who rely on expert interviews as part of their research process. Third Bridge subscribers on the Portrait platform can now instantly leverage the collective insights from thousands of experts through Portrait's deep research workflows. For instance, an analyst researching GLP-1s can now leverage Portrait to analyze thousands of expert conversations about downstream impacts on medical devices, food companies, and insurers, uncovering non-obvious investment opportunities. "Portrait's platform is the perfect environment to unlock even more value from our trusted library of expert insights," said Mike Grubert, Managing Director at Third Bridge, "This collaboration underscores our commitment to providing the world's decision makers with access to the high-quality insights they need, whenever and wherever they need them. Together, we're giving our mutual clients a faster, smarter way to conduct due diligence and develop differentiated insight into investment opportunities." ABOUT PORTRAIT ANALYTICS: Portrait Analytics is a personalized AI-powered investment research platform that supports critical public market workflows across idea generation, context-building, and thesis monitoring. Built by former buy-side analysts, Portrait is headquartered in New York with a presence across the U.S. and Europe. Learn more at ABOUT THIRD BRIDGE: Third Bridge is a global investment research business, providing investors and business leaders with access to the unique expert insights they need to accelerate and improve their decision-making. Founded in 2007, it has 1,500+ employees who serve the world's top private equity funds, hedge funds, mutual funds, and management consulting firms. Learn more at: MEDIA CONTACT: Lauren Gill, MAG PR at lauren@ SOURCE: Portrait Analytics
Yahoo
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Charles Spencer Posts Rare Portrait of Grandmother and the Resemblance to Sister Princess Diana Is Uncanny
Family resemblances are nothing new. Maybe a daughter inherits her dad's nose or a son has his mom's eyes—you get the idea. But every once in a while, there's a family resemblance so strong, it stops you in your tracks. That's exactly what's happening with a newly shared portrait of Princess Diana's grandmother, Cynthia Spencer. On July 8, Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, posted a series of black-and-white charcoal portraits to Instagram, writing, 'Close ups of charcoal portraits of my paternal grandparents, Cynthia and Jack Spencer.' According to the caption, the portraits were drawn in 1919, shortly after the couple married. Charles simply credited the artist as 'Sargent,' and while he didn't confirm it outright, many assume it could be the John Singer Sargent, the celebrated portraitist of the time. The standout image in the post is a close-up of their grandmother Cynthia—and the resemblance to Princess Diana is uncanny. From her soft, short hairstyle to her delicate features and expressive eyes, Cynthia could easily pass as Diana's twin. One scroll through the comments and you'll see the internet agrees. 'I can see Diana in your grandmother. So beautiful,' one person wrote. Another added, 'Your grandmother looks just like Diana, gorgeous,' while a third chimed in, 'Wow. Can see where your sisters get their looks from!' But the connection goes deeper than appearances. Charles's caption reflected on Cynthia's character, writing, 'Sargent captures the soft kindness that I will always remember as the essence of my grandmother: though she died when I was 8, she left an indelible impression on me.' Anwar Hussein/WireImage He added that Cynthia was one of the Queen Mother's closest courtiers and was beloved at the family estate in Althorp for her charitable work and down-to-earth nature. Sound familiar? Between the kindness, the elegance and the effortless grace—it's easy to see that Princess Diana didn't just get her grandmother's face. She seemed to inherited her spirit, too. Want all the latest royal news sent right to your inbox? Click here. Prince William Just Hit a Major Milestone (With a Nod to Princess Diana)
Time Out
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The restaurant with the best view in London, according to Time Out
Like a view with your vichyssoise? Then you're going to eat up our recently updated ranking of the 18 London restaurants with the best views. At the hallowed number one spot is Forza Wine at the National Theatre, which is situated in a prime position on the South Bank, meaning serious views of the Thames over to Embankment, as well as a food menu so good that the restaurant has also made it onto our 2025 list of the top 50 restaurants in London. 'Forza Wine's spot at the National Theatre ticks all the boxes,' we said. 'Cocktails, natty wines and seasonal small plates from their self-proclaimed 'Italian-ish' menu. A wraparound outdoor terrace with views of the South Bank. A spot at the top of a cultural institution, in a building loved by 1960s architecture pervs across the land.' New entries into the list include Gordon Ramsay's Lucky Cat, aka the highest restaurant in Europe, which is in seventh place. Lucky Cat opened earlier this year and is on the 60th floor of 22 Bishopsgate. The food? Fine. The views? Sensational. The Portrait by Richard Corrigan is at number two, which you'll find on the very top floor of the National Portrait Gallery. We said: 'Basically every London skyline landmark is visible at once from the bright, simple and airy restaurant space, and the menu is stonking, offering modern British delights with an emphasis on the light, fresh and seasonal.' Another gallery spot, the Tate Modern Restaurant, also features on the list. We also feature a couple of spots at ground level – you don't have to be in a skyscraper for a good view, you know. Pont de le Tour next to Tower Bridge is in at number 16, and Rick Stein's riverside joint in Barnes also makes the grade (number nine!)
Forbes
06-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
A Subtle Change Is Reshaping Winemaking In Napa Valley
Ehlers Estate in St. Helena, Napa Valley, California. Alexander Rubin Photography In a converted 19th-century stone barn in northern Napa Valley, a white wine is taking shape that upends more than it preserves. It is 87% sauvignon blanc, 13% sémillon, fermented in concrete, aged 14 months on lees and filtered for stability. Its structure is saline, its edges softened by time and skin contact. It is labeled simply: Sylviane Estate Blanc. 'I almost never filter anything, including white wines,' says Adam Casto during a tasting session at Ehlers Estate in St. Helena, California. 'But I didn't want the first white wine release to have any risk of re-fermentation in the bottle. So I filtered this one.' Casto joined Ehlers Estate as head winemaker in 2023 and this upcoming harvest will be his third with the winery. He was hired not to maintain the house style, but to rebuild it. His approach favors slow fermentation, concrete vessels and extended lees aging. 'The sémillon brings a salty, sea spray character, especially from the crystal lees aging,' he says. 'The concrete adds a little more body.' The Sylviane is pressed after 24 hours of skin contact. It rests in a mix of neutral and new French oak, but not to impart flavor. 'That contact, combined with the concrete, helps turn the phenolic bitterness into a kind of structure,' Casto explains. The result is not a white wine modeled after tradition but something else: an engineered response to site and conditions. 'This was very much inspired by white wines I tasted in Hungary in 2019,' he says. 'They paired with food in a way that reminded me of red wines—so structured, so food-friendly.' This technical approach is now visible across the winery's small portfolio. The 2022 Portrait—a red blend of cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, merlot and petit verdot—was fermented in stainless steel and aged 21 months in French oak. So was the 2022 cabernet franc. But labeling now receives less attention than how each wine is built. Casto has begun stripping varietal names from the front of bottles, starting with cabernet franc. 'It's like killing off a main character in a story,' he says. 'It opens up new possibilities.' This philosophy now guides not only how the wines are made but how they are named and presented. The new flagship red, for instance, was initially named 'La Lande,' in honor of the president of the Leducq Foundation, which owns the estate. That plan was abandoned when the team learned the name was under copyright in Spain. They have since planned to rename the wine 'Perdrix,' the French term for partridge. It is traditionally associated with wine through the term 'œil de perdrix,' used to describe the pale, coppery hue of certain rosés. The word also evokes Burgundian traditions, lending a classic tone to wine naming. Perdrix blends cabernet franc and merlot, but its composition is only part of the point. The wine is designed to represent the entire estate, not a single variety. 'The wine becomes the portrait of the estate,' Casto says. 'Eventually, I'd love for this to be our flagship wine—our benchmark.' Future vineyard blocks will be planted with this in mind. Casto is training 200 vines on a high-wire system meant to handle rising temperatures. Half the estate—roughly 21 acres—is under evaluation for replanting. 'The idea is to plant a block with the intention that it will always be a blend,' he says. 'The composition of the blend will reflect the distribution of cultivars planted. And that can shift over time.' The pressures shaping Casto's work are not only philosophical. In 2024, California's wine grape harvest fell to its lowest volume in two decades, with a total crush of just 2.8 million tons—a 23% drop from the previous year. Napa Valley alone saw nearly 40 days above 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the growing season, a fourfold increase over 2023. At the same time, expectations for sustainability have become standard. More than 90% of California's wine now comes from Certified California Sustainable wineries, and over 65% of the state's vineyard acreage is certified under environmental programs. For Casto, these factors are inseparable from how wine is made. 'It has to work on multiple levels,' he says. 'It can't just solve one problem.' Quarterly reports will document the process. Soil pits, trellising design, canopy orientation and clonal selection will be shared with club members. 'My opinions will change. My mistakes will accumulate,' he says. 'That's part of it.' At Ehlers, he produces just 100 cases of Perdrix right now. But it serves as a test model. The smaller size offers control. It allows for extended aging, regular evaluation and immediate course correction. It avoids the forced consistency required in wines that must be replicated at scale. 'We need to do more, do it faster, and do it better,' Casto says. The goal is not rarity. It is refinement. Casto says he doesn't view winemaking as a search for perfection or permanence. Instead, it is process-driven, dependent on restraint, awareness and time. 'When someone asks why I take photos, I say, because I'm afraid I won't see it otherwise,' he says. 'That's how I feel about winemaking too.'
