The importance of establishing your investing decisions on Excel models instead of ‘feelings’ or opinions, reminder #452. It took me more than a week while working on a post titled “one year of leverage” to realize that, actually, I opened Read more…
In April this year, I introduced The Italian Leather Sofa model portfolio. As a reminder, here is the portfolio composition: 60% stocks (via NTSX) 40% bonds (via NTSX) 20% trend (via DBMF) 10% commodities trend (via COM) 4% Tail risk Read more…
Growing up, I did not care much about Guns n’ Roses and yet it was impossible to avoid this t-shirt: Kill Your Idols is a saying of advice to artists of all sorts to eliminate the behaviors or styles of Read more…
If you landed on this blog, you probably know what target-date funds are and why they are one of the preferred instruments to save for retirement. They are designed to be a simple, one-stop solution for savers. The concept is Read more…
I struggled a bit with a post this week. Week…that’s my ideal goal, write on a weekly basis but as you can see, I am usually behind schedule. I am preparing a post around the “glidepath” but I cannot find Read more…
The starting point of my journey in personal finance and investing was trading. Trading was my first love. This is the reason why I only recently had a look at annuities; for a long time, I considered the instrument as Read more…
I discovered @MacroAlf and his YouTube/podcast only recently. Sunday morning my daughter decided to wake me up at 6.30 am and since it was the first day in almost two months I did not have any NBA game to watch, Read more…
Two weeks ago I wrote a post about the All Weather Portfolio. Since the beginning of 2022, there has been an extensive discussion about “static stock&bond allocations” because both assets suffered significant losses. We were promised uncorrelated returns and yet, Read more…
This is a port-mortem about my investment in the crypto token $LUNA. The token came on my radar after I read The Generalist briefing about it. I started reading The Generalist just a few months prior, after their infamous trilogy Read more…
I have been fascinated by Risk Parity since the day I read about it. Combining uncorrelated assets, where each contributes in the same way to the portfolio’s overall volatility, is the best way to approach the capital allocator problem, at Read more…