My job in the last 15 (?) years has been in, generally speaking, Corporate Treasury. I contribute to the bottom line of my employer in various way: Even if I want, there is no way Read more…
“Retail investors have won the battle of fees. Brokerage accounts are free. Trading commissions are history. Anyone can own the entire stock market through a single exchange-traded fund for basically nothing. It’s a huge win Read more…
A few days (? weeks?) ago, this image made the rounds on Twitter: It is taken from a BlackRock presentation, where they were trying to push the case for an investment in Bitcoin. You were Read more…
In April 2022, I introduced on this blog The Italian Leather Sofa Model Portfolio. As a reminder, here is the portfolio composition: The idea behind the portfolio is stolen from here. The link offers the best Read more…
One aspect that has always fascinated? attracted? fooled? me about financial portfolios are Tactical Asset Allocation strategies. Rebalancing 10.0, a smarter approach to “buy low, sell high”, factors applied to asset classes, call it as Read more…
We are preparing a podcast episode where the three of us talk about our personal portfolios, how we invest our savings. As you can imagine, my part is a bit complex. Especially if you consider Read more…
AH! Leveraged ETFs, bearer of infinite deliberations, good or bad, useful tools or weapons of mass destruction. Tradr launched 2x leveraged funds that target weekly and monthly returns instead of the typical daily performance, with Read more…
I live in Europe and the majority of this blog readers are European as well. The most recurrent complaint I receive is that I focus on USD investment without acknowledging the related FX risks for Read more…
Not a long time ago I wrote a post about Target Date Funds and their struggle to survive an inflation shock. With a target post-retirement allocation of 30% stocks / 70% bonds, they are basically Read more…