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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 yearsOctober 20, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

Three lessons from the UK pension fund crisis

I know, I do not write that much lately AND my last post was on the same topic. I promise you, I am not obsessing over this matter (even if some days I have to provide almost hourly updates on Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsOctober 13, 2022 ago
Portfolio construction

The UK pension debacle (and why it is interesting even if you do not live in the UK)

It has been quite a week (and counting) in the UK. On the 23rd of September, the new UK government delivered their first recipe to revive the UK economy and it was received worse than a foreigner asking for a Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsOctober 4, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

Factor Diversification

It has been a while since I wanted to write about the “low vol” factor. The reason is pretty simple, look how it performed in the last year (white line is the biggest LowVol ETF listed in the US, the Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsSeptember 25, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

Growth from Failure

I discovered Kris Abdelmessih on Twitter and his substack The Moontower not a long time ago. The more I climb the tower, the more I find him a fascinating person to follow. He arrived both at the best and the Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsSeptember 15, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

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

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