The importance of diversification in the stock market. Looking for the needle in the haystack Many people wrongly believe that the stock market is akin to the lotto with one…
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How Much Money Do You Need?
How do you know how much money you need to invest in order to be financially independent? The total amount you need to have invested in order to live off…
Blackrock’s New UCITES iBond ETFs
What does this mean for investors? I just found out that Blackrock launched a new suite of iBonds ETFs on August 9th that are UCITS and domiciled in Ireland. This…
Financial Advisors and Active Fund Managers
Active vs Passive The “Active vs Passive” debate was settled long ago – passive is better in the long run mathematically and empirically, e.g. SPIVA. Investing is a “solved” game!…
Living the YOLO Life
If you are around my age (Gen X), you may not know that “YOLO” stands for “You Only Live Once”, popularized by the Canadian rapper Drake in his 2011 song…
BNPL is an Evil Business Model
I hate the “Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)” business model – it’s evil!! When I first heard of the Buy Now Pay Later model that many fintech companies were getting…
Diversification: how to prevent financial collapse
Over the weekend in the US, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) went under. Banks fail all the time, but this was a rather large one with a correspondingly larger effect on…
Understanding Investing
“It takes above average intelligence to understand index investing” -Tuan Phan Index Investing is Simple Being a passive investor is simple and straightforward. The strategy can be implemented by any…
Buying Vs Renting: Beyond the Numbers
If you want to see what the numbers say, check out my previous post: Buying Vs Renting: The Numbers. Types of Data Having taught the scientific method for many years,…
Buying Vs Renting: The Numbers
“I don’t want to be throwing away all that money on rent.” Land ownership has been the most common way of building wealth throughout history, though this opportunity was largely…