This week, I read a post from my pal Finanza Cafona on how he manages his money and budget. I call this type of content “finance porn” because I think in many cases the author wants to humblebrag how successful (?) they are and draw attention to their public persona. Read more
Every video/post about dividend investing should start with a big, clear disclaimer that says “This investment strategy is suboptimal; it might help you behaviourally but you are going to pay for the privilege”. Like those ads against piracy before a movie or the banners on cigarette packs. Imaging investing using Read more
It is almost the two-year anniversary of this post I wrote about the role of gold in a portfolio. A few days ago, someone re-posted on Twitter the research piece that prompted me to write my post (well, half of it) and I enjoyed it like it was the first Read more
I read a post from Ben Carlson about lifestyle creep and had a few thoughts. Mainly two, to be exact. “Feeling rich” and “being worried about money” are emotions, therefore exist because everyone is also exposed to the opposite. Can you know what happiness is if you have never been Read more
Does an asset intrinsic risk/return profile change based on where I sit? Let’s start with an example. I live In Switzerland with my best friend. He is a really good sports bettor and he generates rather stable returns out of this passion. We are good friends and he let me Read more
Index: a sign or measure of something I have been reading complaints about market capitalisation-weighted indexes for a while. The latest reason is the over-exposure of the World Index to the US stocks…according to European investors; because if you ask Americans, there is never enough US stuff you can put Read more
This post is a behind the scene compendium of my first (?!?) guest post on BankerOnWheels.com; or…whatever did not make the cut there but I did not want to throw it away (I wrote it while on holiday so it would have been double the waste). You can definitely read Read more
Taxes are a thorny topic to cover, even for a finance blog. A 1% saving on taxes equals 1% more in (net) returns, and we all know how hard is to increase returns even by just 1%. But taxes serve a social purpose: they are used to run schools and Read more
In April 2022, I introduced on this blog The Italian Leather Sofa Model Portfolio. As a reminder, here is the portfolio composition: The idea behind the portfolio is stolen from here. The link offers the best explanation to what I think is the most common question related to it, i.e. Read more
I do not remember how and when I discovered HonestMath.com, it must have been on Twitter. Talking about Twitter, I fool myself all the time by thinking I can use it like a sort of RSS feed: someone posts a nice link, I go and read it. It happens very Read more