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What I learned about giving financial advice* to others

*This post is 100% fiction, even more than past ones. Nothing here is financial advice, please use your own judgment about reading from a rando on the internet that does not update his About page for ages. A week ago, Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsSeptember 2, 2022 ago
P2P Lending

P2P Lending: what worked and what did not

TLDR: if you ask me, most did When I started this blog four years ago, I planned to dedicate ample space to p2p lending. I had been experimenting with investments in that space for three years and, at that time, Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsAugust 20, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

Enjoy now, Retire (a bit) later: Sabbatical musings

Do you know the frequency illusion? It is a concept in psychology that describes, for example, once you purchase a new car you start seeing it everywhere. It is also called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon but well, I guess “frequency illusion” was Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsAugust 8, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

Two years of leverage

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…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsJuly 28, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

Model Portfolio Quarterly Update

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…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsJuly 20, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

The attempted murder of the 60/40 Portfolio

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…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsJuly 13, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

The evolution of Target-Date funds

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…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsJuly 1, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

Mortgage costs to the moon

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…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsJune 20, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

Heads I win, Tails you lose

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…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsJune 10, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

MacroAlf interviews Hugh Hendry

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…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsJune 1, 2022 ago

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