It has been a while since I wanted to re-read and comment on Sam Hinkie’s resignation letter. Sam was the Philadelphia 76ers (an NBA team) GM and left in 2016. At the time, he took on a crappy team and tried to make it better by…making it even crappier. At Read more…
A common theme in this blog’s last few years has been the search for the perfect retirement portfolio. If you are familiar with the ideal goal, you know the challenges to achieve it: longevity and sequence of returns risks, declining cognitive capacity to manage complex assets, various left-tail events, inflation Read more…
“The world’s most sophisticated institutions invest using asset/liability matching strategies to help them properly navigate their liquidity needs over time. Banks, pensions and other large institutions don’t rely on vague “risk profiling” processes or Modern Portfolio Theory and instead use practical asset/liability matching strategies. Retail investors, on the other hand, Read more…
Being the one that “works in finance”, and more and more because of this blog, I have been asked for advice*. For this reason, and considering the dumbfounding difference between the state of the financial advisory industry in the US compared to Europe, my mind sometimes wonders why we are Read more…
“you do not eat risk-adjusted returns” How many times I have heard it. Well, not literally like this because, if you are able to frame it this way, you know it is not 100% true. Usually, it comes in the form of “stocks generate higher returns than that”. Meaning, why 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…
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…
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…
Personal finance is usually associated with investing. Often with budgeting. Sometimes with taxes. Insurances are a relevant part of the puzzle that is discussed less frequently. As with investing, my understanding of how insurances work, and how they work for me, has changed through time. Here are a few lessons Read more…
Weeks ago I read the following post, which hit straight into my soul (I left the original Italian version, you can find the English version straight after): Quante volte negli anni scorsi abbiamo ascoltato o letto che Europa e Stati Uniti si stavano avviando verso la “giapponesizzazione”.Fiumi di parole sulle Read more…