As an allocator, I always challenge consultants that model assets like Absolute Return Credit: they give me an expected return and volatility profile based on average results of managers in the space without considering that you can invest in one, Read more…
So it is time for me to write about something I have very limited experience with and most importantly no success to date: start-up investing. Even this definition might be loose since Mintos was founded in 2015 and at a Read more…
The great majority of posts about strategies to F.I.R.E. focus on the single individual, you. What if you are in a couple? Trying to force a particular lifestyle into anyone is a recipe for disaster but at the same time Read more…
This post from Morgan Housel provides me a good introduction to discuss a thought I have in my mind since a while. I started trading and investing quite early, at least early for an Italian in the ’90s: very few Read more…
Days ago I received a request of collaboration from Lendary, a lending platform that I did not know; the message was the classic copy/paste p2p community managers send to all bloggers but in this case they started with I am Read more…
Kristaps Mors sent me three questions about my experience investing with p2p lenders that he is sharing with various p2p bloggers. The questions are simple but informative, I could only share a couple of lines with him but I thought Read more…
Few things recently happened that made me (re)think about the concept of passive income. The Italian stock broker I use since forever decided I cannot trade anymore multiple US listed ETFs, some of which I already own, because…of a regulation Read more…
Couple of weeks ago Bondora posted on their blog the company 2019 results. As far as I know, it was the first time they disclosed G&G historic return and my mind started to spin. I opened my account with them Read more…
Before joining my current company I worked a couple of years for a cruise liner. When I started, my boss explained to me how great of a business it was. Demand for cruises was steadily increasing every year and was Read more…
I was thinking about the pros (or not) of having p2p investments in my portfolio during the recent stock market downturn and recovery, in the end they performed as truly alternatives: meaning it is really hard to say how they Read more…