Personal Finance
The Plateau
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…
Personal Finance
FAKE Passive Income
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…
Personal Finance
I won Fantasy Football (again)
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…
P2P Lending
Viventor Update
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…
P2P Lending
P2P platforms update
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…
Personal Finance
How to F.I.R.E. outside the USA – a currency primer
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…
Personal Finance
Considerations on the “Retire Early” part of the F.I.R.E. equation
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…
Personal Finance
Capital Efficiency (or…another post about leverage)
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…
Personal Finance
The Deliveroo IPO
This is a quick, lazy post. I do not own any single name stock since almost four years (lie! I owe uncle Warren stock actually!), last IPO I participated in was in 2006. It is a part of the market Read more…
P2P Platform Review
Loanpad
You do not have the time to finish to write about ‘a legit Go&Grow‘ that you find it on Seedrs…or not? Loanpad is a new UK p2p platform that aims to offer the operational simplicity and control of an online Read more…