Personal Finance
The Rob Arnott Trade
A few days ago, I saw this tweet: I couldn’t picture in my mind what the purpose was and simply filed it away as “another meme ETF”. Then Katie Greifeld mentioned it in her podcast Read more…
Personal Finance
Tail Risk – A Quick Guide
I’ve been incorporating ‘Tail Risk’ ETFs into my portfolios for some time now, specifically TAIL in the Model Portfolio and TAIL, CAOS, and BTAL in my personal portfolio. Given the current market conditions, it feels Read more…
Personal Finance
Model Portfolio Quarterly Update
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…
Personal Finance
Regime-Based Investing, ep 2
Man AHL dropped a new paper on regime-based investing (link). Think of it as the overachiever’s version of lazy portfolios. Instead of building a portfolio that’s resilient across economic regimes—like the Permanent Portfolio—this approach tries Read more…
Personal Finance
Dissecting the 60/40
The CFA Institute produced a detailed report on the historical performance of the 60/40 portfolio (here the link). While the breadth of this study is not as ample as other works, think of the UBS Read more…
Personal Finance
Black Mirror IRL
I want to talk to you about a crazy experiment. Years ago, an Italian blogger-now-YTer started sharing all his “financial life” in the open, to everyone. I virtually met him because of this experiment, and Read more…
Personal Finance
Investing is an Inherently Probabilistic Activity
Ever since I devoured “The Success Equation” on a sun-drenched beach in Malaysia, I’ve eagerly anticipated every new piece from Michael Mauboussin. There’s something about his work that push the intellect, perhaps tinged with the Read more…
Personal Finance
Why your retirement calculator is broken
I wrote the below post more than 4 years ago. And it still feels super relevant. Ok, enough with the excuses. It is a busy period and it’s been two months at least I do Read more…
Personal Finance
How to Choose an Asset Allocation
As someone who runs (hahaha) a podcast, I am in awe of how the guys behind the Rational Reminder continue to find interesting topics to review after more than 300 episodes. Someone said that personal Read more…