About Corporate Financier’s Notes

Every week, the world's leading business media and best financial institutions publish research that most professionals never read.

Morgan Stanley releases a 40-page outlook on global wealth. McKinsey publishes a deep-dive on the energy transition. Bain produces the definitive report on luxury market dynamics. The FT runs a series on the great wealth transfer.

Most of it sits unread. Not because you're not interested. Because you're running a business, managing a team, or advising clients — and you don't have four hours on a Tuesday morning to work through institutional research written for fund managers.That's the gap Corporate Financier's Notes exists to close.

What this is
Every Thursday morning at 7am, I read what the institutions are saying — the FT, The Economist, Morgan Stanley, McKinsey, Bain, JPMorgan, Henley & Partners, and more — and I translate it. Not summarise. Translate.There's a difference. A summary tells you what was said. A translation tells you what it means, why it matters, and what you should think about it.

Each issue takes roughly four minutes to read and has three parts: One Number — a single data point that changes how you read the week. One Argument — a plain-English essay on what that number means and why it matters. One Position — my direct read. A view you can agree or disagree with.No jargon. No forecasts dressed up as certainty. No noise. Just the data that matters and what to make of it.

Who this is for
Corporate Financier's Notes is written for one reader: a sharp, time-poor senior professional who needs to understand the financial forces shaping their world — but doesn't need another news digest.

You're probably a CEO, CFO, a lawyer, a management consultant, a senior partner, or a business owner. You subscribe to the FT and The Economist. You're financially literate — you understand a P&L, you follow markets broadly — but finance is not your specialism. It's the language of the rooms you work in.You want to walk into a board meeting, a conversation with your wealth manager, or a dinner with well-informed peers and be the person who actually has a view on what's happening. You don't have time to read the research. You need someone to read it for you and tell you what it means. That's exactly who I write for.

Who writes it
I'm Aivars Jurcans. I've spent 25 years in corporate finance — deals, markets, and the kind of work that requires understanding not just what the numbers say, but what they mean for the people making decisions. I founded Murinus Advisers to, among other things, bring that perspective to clients who need it. This newsletter is where I think out loud — every week, in public, about the data points and arguments that I believe matter most for senior professionals operating in a complex financial world. I don't sell investment products. I don't manage money. I have no agenda other than getting this right.

What you'll get
A weekly brief — four minutes every Thursday — that gives you one thing you can use. Something to bring up in a meeting. A question to ask your banker. A reframe that makes a decision you've been half-forming feel clearer.

Free. Every Thursday at 7am. No spam, ever. Unsubscribe in one click if it's not for you.

If the first issue doesn't give you something worth saying to someone, you've lost nothing but four minutes.