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…
Working with, and now also writing about, investing stuff necessarily exposed me to things that I do not understand. Not because they are complicated (there are but they are not the topic of this post) but because they are stupid. At least for me. As Matt Sperling would say, “I Read more…
A little bit more than a year ago, Andrea invited me to participate in his InCassaforte podcast after we had a brief exchange on Twitter on why it was reasonable or not to invest in bonds when rates are at zero or negative. This morning (which might not be your Read more…
Global X just launched two “defined-outcome” ETFs that are UCITS compliant (i.e. can be bought by European Investors): I thought I already wrote about this strategy, but I realised I only did a generic piece on structured products here. Innovator ETFs launched the first defined-outcome strategy ETFs about three years Read more…
Today I will review the ASYMmetric S&P500 ETF, ticker ASPY, in an unconventional way. I still remember when I listened to the very first episode of the Animal Spirit podcast because I was on holiday in Costa Rica, traveling by bus from the capital to a surf spot on the Read more…
A week ago I received a message from a reader, who just finished university and is starting his first internship in a few months. Considering the new phase of his life, he wanted to discuss saving and investment strategies. I immediately felt the guy deserved the very best answer I Read more…
When I tell people that Twitter is one of my best working tools, most of them think I am joking. Most of them do not use Twitter. Years ago, when FB was still a thing for under-65, someone correctly said that on FB you find the friends you have while Read more…
In order to save optimize time (which I do not have), I thought I could browse for new, interesting ETFs available for European investors, meaning UCITS compliant, and then write a post about them. This is a search I do regularly, mostly because my Twitter feed talks only about US-listed Read more…