What age you should start investing? Drumroll… “It depends!” Who could have guessed, uh? This is a very interesting and very complex topic. Interesting because, if you nail it, your future self will be very happy. Complex because there is no universal answer (beware those people that tell you otherwise) Read more…
I know, I do not write that much lately AND my last post was on the same topic. I promise you, I am not obsessing over this matter (even if some days I have to provide almost hourly updates on where UK rates are…); in fact, I was mid-way writing 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…
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…
This is a port-mortem about my investment in the crypto token $LUNA. The token came on my radar after I read The Generalist briefing about it. I started reading The Generalist just a few months prior, after their infamous trilogy on FTX. I would not say at that point I 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…
The other day I was listening to Ryen Russillo telling the story of how his father is convinced he could score if he would participate in an NBA game. I obviously do not know Ryen’s father but I thought “sure, they would eat you alive…if you ever manage to touch Read more…
I hate periods when markets dive but not for the obvious reasons. After years of panics, I managed to become pretty zen about it…and by zen I mean I do not trade single name stocks. I hold bonds. I have a diversified portfolio. I zoom out. Even if I am Read more…
It’s been a while that we do not talk about your favorite topic, me (ah!). In the last few months I made some investments that would for sure perform nicely in what it looks like, now, the incipit of a new bear market (ah ah!). Enjoy the ride. A premise Read more…