“Retail investors have won the battle of fees. Brokerage accounts are free. Trading commissions are history. Anyone can own the entire stock market through a single exchange-traded fund for basically nothing. It’s a huge win for investors and terrible for the investment industry.” I copied this paragraph from…I do not Read more…
A few days (? weeks?) ago, this image made the rounds on Twitter: It is taken from a BlackRock presentation, where they were trying to push the case for an investment in Bitcoin. You were most likely already familiar with the LHS graph, it is the sort of info doomsayers Read more…
More than three years ago I wrote this post about SONG, a closed-end fund listed in London that invests in music royalties. I would not explain again why I think investing in music royalties is a good idea, if you are curious, read that post. Many things happened in these Read more…
What’s the risk that the FED next move would be a rate increase? I just listened to The Compound and Friends podcast and someone mentioned this. I do not think is a far-fetched idea, considering that we had three months of increasing CPI above 3%. Do you remember all those Read more…
Did I buy a billion of bonds, as notional amounts, in my career? Probably. For sure if I consider various bond buyback exercises. Did I buy every single one on Bloomberg? YES (or…no? I recall once I implemented TradeWeb but I am not 100% certain I ever use it outside Read more…
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…
$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…
The title of this post is a sentence Corey Hoffstein said in a recent podcast episode with Meb Faber. Jeeez how much I miss Pirates of Finance. It is a very simple sentence that highlights how, in many cases, finance adages are not that “simple” to adopt. Corey concluded that Read more…
Last week I read this FT article about copy trading. I was expecting the routine stories of users that started full of hopes and eventually got rugged: the first part of the piece did not disappoint me. After referring to the usual suspect in this field, eToro, the author mentioned Read more…
The good news: I finally managed to buy US-listed ETFs (in a 100% legit way. I have a cousin who pretended to live somewhere by photoshopping utility bills to bypass regulations/restrictions; amazingly, he never encountered any issue by willingly taking “risks” that his local Regulator deemed to be too big Read more…