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Tax Evasion

Do you like my click-bait attempt? You will hate me even more when you realise this post is basically relevant only to people living in the UK (ok…not exactly…every country in the world incentivise saving and investing via tax reductions Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsAugust 22, 2021 ago
Personal Finance

Family Office faite maison

There are two categories of people in the world: the ones that love Packy McCormick and the ones that do not know Packy. Howard Marks (I think) said that good stock traders are optimist while good bond traders are pessimist. Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsAugust 15, 2021 ago
Personal Finance

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

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