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Passive Investing has broken the Market?

Three weeks ago David Einhorn was a guest on the Masters in Business Podcast: “Market structures are broken and value investing is dead. That’s the view from David Einhorn. On this episode, the president of Greenlight Capital sits down for a wide-ranging discussion with Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz“. I Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 2 yearsMarch 3, 2024 ago
Personal Finance

The Fortress Portfolio

I cannot recall how long ago I discovered @NomadicSamuel on Twitter. My definition of “Canadian Travel Blogger” might not be 100% accurate but take it as is; he’s a great chap who, for some reason, got the finance bug along his journey. In particular, he got the Picture Perfect Portfolio Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 2 yearsFebruary 23, 2024 ago
Personal Finance

Kill Your Idol

Tony Robbins just published a book about investing that is a not-so-hidden pitch to bring revenues to a Private Equity firm he’s a shareholder. Nick Maggiulli wrote a review that exposed the fact. Nothing out of the ordinary, you would say? Nick Maggiulli is a famous (? Can we say Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 2 yearsFebruary 16, 2024 ago
Personal Finance

Flexible Funds

I had some difficulty deciding whether to write about Flexible Funds (FF) in English for a broader audience, or to suggest an Italian-only guest post with FinanzaCafona. FF are definitely popular in Italy among retail investors but I have never come across them outside of my home country. However, this Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 2 yearsFebruary 8, 2024 ago
Personal Finance

No Worries

Jared Dillian just released a book about personal finance (?) called No Worries – How to live a stress free financial life. Who’s Jared? I am not sure how to describe him, he worked in finance, has a paid daily newsletter about finance but he also lives in South Carolina Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 2 yearsFebruary 1, 2024 ago
Personal Finance

Tips for Active Strategies

$CYA must be one of the best tickers ever for an ETF, innit? $CYA is the Simplify Tail Risk Strategy ETF. From their webpage: [CYA] seeks to provide income and capital appreciation while protecting against significant downside risk to investors with a standalone solution for hedging diversified portfolios against severe Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 2 yearsJanuary 22, 2024 ago
Personal Finance

A Critical Assessment of a Critical Assessment of Lifecycle Investment Advice

A few weeks ago I listened to a great episode of the Rational Reminder podcast about Professor Cederburg’s latest research. A research that seems to disrupt traditional thinking in the field of Lifecycle Investment Advice. Two main things are considered common knowledge in the field that the paper disrupts: one Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 2 yearsJanuary 16, 2024 ago
Personal Finance

Model Portfolio Quarterly Update

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

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 2 yearsJanuary 4, 2024 ago
Personal Finance

The Issue with Lazy Portfolios

What is a Lazy Portfolio? A lazy portfolio is a combination of assets (asset allocation) that is easy to maintain. It is the sort of investment you can automatically throw money into, rebalance once every quarter or year, and not have to think about daily. Minimal effort is the rule Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 2 yearsDecember 30, 2023 ago
Personal Finance

7 Predictions (plus 1) for 2024

Market predictions may appear foolish, a truth we have long acknowledged. However, dismissing them as utterly devoid of value would be an oversimplification. Though forecasts tend to err more often than not, they possess the capacity to entertain and enlighten. Musing, and writing, about the future is a way to Read more

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 2 yearsDecember 19, 2023 ago

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