I discovered Kris Abdelmessih on Twitter and his substack The Moontower not a long time ago. The more I climb the tower, the more I find him a fascinating person to follow. He arrived both at the best and the worst possible point in my life: being a parent of Read more
*This post is 100% fiction, even more than past ones. Nothing here is financial advice, please use your own judgment about reading from a rando on the internet that does not update his About page for ages. A week ago, the girlfriend of one of my best friends had to Read more
Do you know the frequency illusion? It is a concept in psychology that describes, for example, once you purchase a new car you start seeing it everywhere. It is also called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon but well, I guess “frequency illusion” was a better idea from a marketing point of view. Last Read more
The importance of establishing your investing decisions on Excel models instead of ‘feelings’ or opinions, reminder #452. It took me more than a week while working on a post titled “one year of leverage” to realize that, actually, I opened the Interactive Broker account in 2020 and not 2021. I Read more
In April this year, I introduced The Italian Leather Sofa model portfolio. As a reminder, here is the portfolio composition: 60% stocks (via NTSX) 40% bonds (via NTSX) 20% trend (via DBMF) 10% commodities trend (via COM) 4% Tail risk (via TAIL) -34% cash The idea behind the portfolio is Read more
Growing up, I did not care much about Guns n’ Roses and yet it was impossible to avoid this t-shirt: Kill Your Idols is a saying of advice to artists of all sorts to eliminate the behaviors or styles of their “idols” or what they took influence/inspiration from (Urban Dictionary). Read more
If you landed on this blog, you probably know what target-date funds are and why they are one of the preferred instruments to save for retirement. They are designed to be a simple, one-stop solution for savers. The concept is straightforward: pick the fund that matches your desired retirement date, Read more
I struggled a bit with a post this week. Week…that’s my ideal goal, write on a weekly basis but as you can see, I am usually behind schedule. I am preparing a post around the “glidepath” but I cannot find the right angle to write it. Plus, I got busy Read more
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