Personal Finance
Leverage!
I first wrote about leverage more than one year ago, time flies! It was a good introduction at the concept and what were my initial thoughts. I am not sure how I will ‘develop’ this series of post, maybe one Read more
Personal Finance
Prof Scott Galloway Predictions for 2021
The most read post on this blog in 2020 has been this: Scott Galloway is a terrible stock picker. It is funny to me because this is a topic at most tangent with what I usually write about. I love Read more
Personal Finance
The Winner of 2020
Earlier this week I choose The Rewatchable episode on Wall Street to be my background distraction while I was exercising at home (once again…thank you Boris). Bill and Brian went through the movie and all the other finance-related movie stars Read more
P2P Platform Review
Heavy Finance
At the beginning of December I started to place some investments in EvoEstate; one day I received an email from them about a new platform they were adding to their portal and…they had me at introducing Evo Alternative. The platform Read more
Personal Finance
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
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
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
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
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
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