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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, 4 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, 4 yearsJune 1, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

Pitfalls of the All Weather Portfolio (and other static allocation portfolios)

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsMay 25, 2022 ago
Crypto

$LUNA fall

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsMay 16, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

The All Weather Portfolio Guide, for everyone, for free

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsMay 10, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

How to run a backtest

It has been a month or two since I got back the “build and test trading strategies” bug. A bug that my very first, real gig gave me. Thinking about that job now, it was pretty absurd. It was a Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsMay 3, 2022 ago
Personal Finance

Invest in Yourself: the Health edition

If I was going to live forever, I would be set. Financially speaking. I watched too many movies and series to know that being immortal provides more issues than joys. Anyway, the concept should be easy to grasp, within the Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsApril 26, 2022 ago

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