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The FIRE Escape Door

I have watched seven episodes of the series Fleishman is in trouble. With Atlanta, is one of the best I watched in the last year. While Atlanta was fun but I couldn’t relate to any of the characters (a bit Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsMarch 10, 2023 ago
Personal Finance

Personalized Inflation Hedging

Inflation is like beauty. Despite thinking, or being deceived into thinking, that a universal measurement is possible, what I see is different from what you see. Last year I wrote a couple of posts on the effects of the recent Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsMarch 3, 2023 ago
Personal Finance

A Portfolio of Diversified Assets

This post was born as a quick reaction to the 2022 Golden Butterfly portfolio performance and then morphed into a collection of thoughts about portfolios, diversifiers, cash vs trend, a levered version of the Permanent Portfolio and…probably other things that Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsFebruary 26, 2023 ago
Portfolio construction

Why Investors Like Hedge Funds

If you regularly read trading/investing/personal finance stuff, there is a high chance you would, at least once, have stumbled across a title like “Hedge Funds underperform and yet continue to attract capital from investors”. At first (which means 20 years Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsFebruary 17, 2023 ago
Personal Finance

ETF Review: ASYMmetric S&P500 (ASPY)

Today I will review the ASYMmetric S&P500 ETF, ticker ASPY, in an unconventional way. I still remember when I listened to the very first episode of the Animal Spirit podcast because I was on holiday in Costa Rica, traveling by Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsFebruary 10, 2023 ago
Personal Finance

How To Make Money Investing In A Ponzi

I had this post in my ‘queue’ for a while; I was hoping to ride a bit of the Netflix wave about the Madoff doc but I had other 3k things going, including surgery so…here we are, finally. The initial Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsFebruary 3, 2023 ago
Personal Finance

The Magic Box

A week ago I received a message from a reader, who just finished university and is starting his first internship in a few months. Considering the new phase of his life, he wanted to discuss saving and investment strategies. I Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsJanuary 27, 2023 ago
Personal Finance

The Safe Withdrawal Rate is dead. Long live the Safe Withdrawal Rate

The Safe Withdrawal Rate is one of the most debated concepts about retirement. Why? The human being is a creature that needs certainty. Assurance. Certitude. We cannot accept that what happens to us is simply…random. The existence of humanity itself Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsJanuary 17, 2023 ago
Personal Finance

Model Portfolio Quarterly Update

In April last year, I introduced 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 explanation to what I think is Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsJanuary 11, 2023 ago
Personal Finance

ETF Review: UBS ETF CMCI Commodity Carry SF (UEQC)

When I tell people that Twitter is one of my best working tools, most of them think I am joking. Most of them do not use Twitter. Years ago, when FB was still a thing for under-65, someone correctly said Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsJanuary 4, 2023 ago

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