David Main - Talisman Advisors

Where Europe should win next

Old people, new grids, retiring machines, rising water, arriving robots, rails and rules — Europe's next big markets are in plain sight. The recipe for a winning start is clear. Talisman Advisors © 2026 Kalundborg is a town of sixteen thousand people on a fjord in western Zealand, an hour

Where’s the money in AI?

AI - The biggest listings in history, and the puzzle of profitability © Talisman Advisors 2026 Two weeks ago, the public stock market accelerated its path to being dominated by AI. Elon Musk’s SpaceX entered the stock market at a valuation of $1.75 trillion and almost immediately hit a valuation

Read the Hand Before the Numbers Do

Reading the cards on leadership On the evening of 26 May 2026, BP's board turned its chairman's cards over. Albert Manifold had held the seat ten months, brought in to run a reset and backed by the activist investor whose pressure had forced it. The board

The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

An ecosystem ready to fail? This piece first appeared on LinkedIn, where it reached over 365,000 readers. It opens this publication. Four weeks ago, on the A4 to Heathrow, my Uber driver explained why the £47 trip I had booked was cancelled — and why he had then accepted the