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Innovator ETFs

Last year I wrote a post about weird ETFs I own. I love these products, they allow you to take specific, sometimes exotic, exposures in a simple and cost effective manner (if you know what you are doing). When Michael Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsDecember 20, 2020 ago
Personal Finance

Retire in Progress

I do not remember how I found this blog but I got hooked for several reasons. The writer lives in Switzerland and I am curious to see how another person approaches a country that has multiple idiosyncratic aspects, like headline Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsDecember 13, 2020 ago
Crypto

Bitcoin: here we go again

From the idea to the actual post, it generally takes me more than a week to publish something. When four (?) weeks ago the price of Bitcoin started to break-out and the bulls roared back on Twitter, I started to Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsNovember 30, 2020 ago
P2P Lending

After the crisis (too soon???): some considerations about P2P investing

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsNovember 22, 2020 ago
P2P Lending

Mintos is crowdfunding

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsNovember 17, 2020 ago
Personal Finance

A barbell approach to FIRE

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsNovember 9, 2020 ago
Personal Finance

Compounding and lessons learned

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsOctober 25, 2020 ago
P2P Lending

Lendary

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsOctober 11, 2020 ago
P2P Lending

My P2P experience so far

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsSeptember 26, 2020 ago
Personal Finance

How passive is Passive Income?

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsSeptember 13, 2020 ago

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