Most probably I had the trader bug since I was born. Do you have a memory about your early adolescence that you are not sure if it happened for real? Obviously this only works if you are Gen X like Read more…
One year ago I signed my first mortgage in UK; in less than one year, I will have to renegotiate it. For everyone not living on the-perennial-rain island (no, not that one, the one on the right, the one with Read more…
I am quite bad with dates, as remembering the day something happened…not a date like going out with my wife, in that I am pretty good at that, just look at my wife! To be more precise I am bad Read more…
I found this blog one year ago thanks to Nick Maggiulli; I am quite fond of it because it provided me the solution to my quest for leverage: Interactive Broker. I spent some years looking for a bank that would Read more…
I decided to try something different for this post. I always thought that are some affinities between investing and Fantasy Football and wanted to write about my approach to it since a while. What prompted me to do it now Read more…
This morning I received below email from Viventor: We are pleased to announce that the acquisition of Twinero & Presto by Gielen Group is now final and investors are given 2 recovery options.As we informed you last year, the following Read more…
It has been a while since I wrote about my p2p investments. Nothing relevant happened, just few good and bad news here and there. The main disappointment is that initially, p2p was meant to ‘democratise’ an asset class that was Read more…
When I was 17 I went to the US for a 1 month basketball tour with my Italian team; every two nights we were sleeping with a different family in a different town, but there was a ritual that happened Read more…
I do not have a lot of inspiring thoughts these days. I spent the last two weeks teaching my daughter how to pee in a pot: despite the huge effort needed, there are not big lessons to get out of Read more…
This is my third post about leverage, you can find the first introduction here and a second, practical implementation, here. In particular, I want to comment this recent paper from JPMorgan that I found really interesting (spoiler alert: I agree Read more…