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Is S&P500 the right benchmark for you?

(especially if you do not live in the US) Last week the biggest US tech names reported their Q2/21 results: Tesla, and to a lesser extent Netflix, starting point was low enough that an almost triple-digit growth is still in Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsAugust 5, 2021 ago
Personal Finance

Seedrs, my adventures as an angel (investor)

The early days My relationship with the start-up world had some highs and lows. Ten years ago I was dating this girl that had some friends involved in Rocket Internet: in her eyes, it was the chance to join the Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsJuly 25, 2021 ago
Personal Finance

Interactive Brokers slashes fees! (and other considerations on stock brokers)

I had to read and re-read the email three times. I then found some confirming tweets: IB is indeed removing the $10 monthly inactivity fee it was charging its poor (with less than $100k balance) clients. In 25 years of Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsJuly 15, 2021 ago
Personal Finance

The Everest Formula

or…The Italian Leather Sofa for the community. Commenting a recent post, Luca suggested me to have a look at The Everest Formula website and…why not! I wish there will be more interaction on this blog, if you post your questions, Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsJuly 7, 2021 ago
Personal Finance

Custom Indexing

A quick peak into the future (while I wait for my boss to approve some trades and then I dash to the gym). If you are interested in factor investing, you probably know that beauty is in the eye of Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsJuly 2, 2021 ago
Personal Finance

A trader story, chapter 1

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsJuly 1, 2021 ago
Personal Finance

A Mortgage Primer

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsJune 23, 2021 ago
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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsJune 15, 2021 ago
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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsJune 7, 2021 ago
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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsMay 30, 2021 ago

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