The starting point of my journey in personal finance and investing was trading. Trading was my first love. This is the reason why I only recently had a look at annuities; for a long time, I considered the instrument as ‘too boring to bother’ and an area so full of Read more
I discovered @MacroAlf and his YouTube/podcast only recently. Sunday morning my daughter decided to wake me up at 6.30 am and since it was the first day in almost two months I did not have any NBA game to watch, I decided to give this interview a go while Frozen Read more
Two weeks ago I wrote a post about the All Weather Portfolio. Since the beginning of 2022, there has been an extensive discussion about “static stock&bond allocations” because both assets suffered significant losses. We were promised uncorrelated returns and yet, not only did they move in the same direction, they Read more
I have been fascinated by Risk Parity since the day I read about it. Combining uncorrelated assets, where each contributes in the same way to the portfolio’s overall volatility, is the best way to approach the capital allocator problem, at least to me. Nice theory bruv, how do you implement Read more
It has been a month or two since I got back the “build and test trading strategies” bug. A bug that my very first, real gig gave me. Thinking about that job now, it was pretty absurd. It was a six months internship for what at the time was a Read more
If I was going to live forever, I would be set. Financially speaking. I watched too many movies and series to know that being immortal provides more issues than joys. Anyway, the concept should be easy to grasp, within the financial sphere: you save and invest, compounding does its thing, Read more
I probably wrote too many posts about inflation, recently. Writing another one was definitely not my intention; then, yesterday I went running and listened to the latest podcast episode of The Compound and Friends, where Nick Maggiulli echoed a concept I had in my mind for some weeks. My idea Read more
Last week we had our last ‘family of three’ trip and went to visit a friend in Lisbon. The short, five-day holiday was great, with the added kicker that while we were sunbathing on the beach it was snowing in London. Great market timing! Our friend is a French painter Read more
It was ‘convexity week’ on TILS. After this tweet, a lengthy and insightful debate started on what convexity means. At the same time, PortfolioCharts posted a link to this Italian blog where the author explains…convexity (there is an English version of the blog but I couldn’t find the link to Read more
In my previous post on how to trade during a bear market, I used Tencent as a prime example. The stock actually bottomed the day after I published the post and since has rebounded more than 30%. The rebound was ignited by the news of Beijing’s strong push to stabilize Read more