Personal Finance
Portfolio Update
It’s been a while that we do not talk about your favorite topic, me (ah!). In the last few months I made some investments that would for sure perform nicely in what it looks like, now, the incipit of a Read more
Personal Finance
Subscriptions: how to kill your budget by a thousand cuts
It’s been some years that I have trouble sleeping. Not because my investments keep me awake, some nights my body simply decides that it does not want to sleep. Gone are the days when I could drink five redbulls (and Read more
Personal Finance
The Migrant (How to Boost your Income).
Passive income and investments in general are great to help you reach your financial goals but the best way to get there fast is to increase your main source of income. For all of us still ‘old school’, this means Read more
Personal Finance
No Bonds for Charlie Ellis
I read this post earlier in the week and I got quite disappointed. Humble Dollar is supposed to be one of the ‘good’ financial divulgation outlet and the author of the post, Charlie D. Ellis, wrote a seminal book called Read more
Personal Finance
Podcast
This week MrRip, the person behind retireinprogress.com (and soon mr.rip?), invited me to join one of his Twitch live streams (in Italian). I am fairly new to this ‘game’ and do not fully know the proper etiquette to thank him Read more
Personal Finance
Second Home
I have read numerous posts on the pros and cons of buying a second, vacation home and decided to write my own. My parents bought a chalet on the Italian Alps before I was born and it is probably the Read more
Personal Finance
Would you short Jesus (just because his value is faith-based)?
Religions are a bubble that will prove to be “worthless” John Paulson Religions are a fraud Paul Singer Would you believe the above quotes were real if the person said his judgement is based only on intrinsic value? What about Read more
P2P Lending P2P Platform Review
P2P great (lost?) opportunity
Listening to the latest episode of Animal Spirit podcast, the CEO of Cadre repeated at least five times that his mission is to ‘democratise finance’. Cadre offers to US accredited investors the possibility to invest in commercial real estate, an Read more
Personal Finance
How to build your own insurance company
Recently I read this article by Larry Swedroe on how after 2008 became really hard to invest in an hedge fund that will provide a meaningful overperformance (if any at all). HF were providing real alpha before that date and Read more
Personal Finance
Spending Review
My wife fell pregnant while working as a maternity cover. It was a small ooops for her employer and a big one for us, because it meant she would only receive the Statutory Maternity Pay. In short, for one year Read more