In April this year, I introduced The Italian Leather Sofa model portfolio. As a reminder, here is the portfolio composition: 60% stocks (via NTSX) 40% bonds (via NTSX) 20% trend (via DBMF) 10% commodities trend (via COM) 4% Tail risk (via TAIL) -34% cash The idea behind the portfolio is Read more…
It has been quite a week (and counting) in the UK. On the 23rd of September, the new UK government delivered their first recipe to revive the UK economy and it was received worse than a foreigner asking for a capuccino-and-steak for dinner in an Italian restaurant. TILS opinion on Read more…
In April this year, I introduced The Italian Leather Sofa model portfolio. As a reminder, here is the portfolio composition: 60% stocks (via NTSX) 40% bonds (via NTSX) 20% trend (via DBMF) 10% commodities trend (via COM) 4% Tail risk (via TAIL) -34% cash The idea behind the portfolio is Read more…
Growing up, I did not care much about Guns n’ Roses and yet it was impossible to avoid this t-shirt: Kill Your Idols is a saying of advice to artists of all sorts to eliminate the behaviors or styles of their “idols” or what they took influence/inspiration from (Urban Dictionary). Read more…
If you landed on this blog, you probably know what target-date funds are and why they are one of the preferred instruments to save for retirement. They are designed to be a simple, one-stop solution for savers. The concept is straightforward: pick the fund that matches your desired retirement date, Read more…
Two weeks ago I wrote a post about the All Weather Portfolio. Since the beginning of 2022, there has been an extensive discussion about “static stock&bond allocations” because both assets suffered significant losses. We were promised uncorrelated returns and yet, not only did they move in the same direction, they Read more…
I have been fascinated by Risk Parity since the day I read about it. Combining uncorrelated assets, where each contributes in the same way to the portfolio’s overall volatility, is the best way to approach the capital allocator problem, at least to me. Nice theory bruv, how do you implement Read more…
It has been a month or two since I got back the “build and test trading strategies” bug. A bug that my very first, real gig gave me. Thinking about that job now, it was pretty absurd. It was a six months internship for what at the time was a Read more…
The typical dose of daily financial news is something like “Stock XYZ did this today”; if we are lucky, is something more general like “Stocks went up/down” or, more likely these days, “Bonds did this and that”. For the average investor, there is little value in that information. Their holdings Read more…
Last week, the @WifeyAlpha account appeared on my timeline: for once, Twitter algo did the right thing. Not only did Twitter put the account in front of me, it chose one of the best Tweet I read in a long time: 15 tactical asset allocation models? Is it Christmas yet?!? Read more…