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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. why Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 1 monthApril 5, 2025 ago
Personal Finance

Regime-Based Investing, ep 2

Man AHL dropped a new paper on regime-based investing (link). Think of it as the overachiever’s version of lazy portfolios. Instead of building a portfolio that’s resilient across economic regimes—like the Permanent Portfolio—this approach tries to front-run reality. If we’re in stagflation, why hold anything but cash? Or managed futures, Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 1 monthMarch 30, 2025 ago
Personal Finance

Model Portfolio Enhancements Update

Here at The Italian Leather Sofa I run a Model Portfolio, an empirical summary of all the concepts around asset allocation and diversification discussed on the blog. It is a short, and hopefully understandable, recap to the “ok, but how do I apply all the theories I read on the Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 monthsJanuary 18, 2025 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. why Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 monthsJanuary 1, 2025 ago
Personal Finance

The Risk of using Volatility as a Risk Proxy

These days, chaps are busy thinking about Xmas gifts…and I am thinking about bonds. This post is highly unstructured, as it is a sort of stream of consciousness. I have collected many thoughts about bonds this year from reading papers, looking at portfolios and listening to podcasts. Bonds can provide Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 monthsNovember 28, 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. why Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 7 monthsOctober 6, 2024 ago
Personal Finance

Context Matters

We are preparing a podcast episode where the three of us talk about our personal portfolios, how we invest our savings. As you can imagine, my part is a bit complex. Especially if you consider that we target the podcast for an audience who has basic to no financial knowledge. Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 8 monthsSeptember 20, 2024 ago
Personal Finance

The Model Portfolio and the 2024 Teddy Bear

The first days of August have been engaging. I am unsure if many people were waiting so eagerly for some action for so long that they jumped at the first opportunity or if what happened was short but meaningful. For the right or wrong reasons, everyone had to comment. I Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 9 monthsAugust 15, 2024 ago
Personal Finance

Are Target Date Funds Dead?

I honestly do not know why the “holy s*&t Target Date Funds must have had an awful period” just came to my mind. I wrote a post on the infamous the Cederburg’s paper, A Critical Assessment of Lifecycle Investment Advice, not a long time ago. One of the (few?) reasonable Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 9 monthsJuly 31, 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. why Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 10 monthsJuly 8, 2024 ago

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