April 2011

Weekend reading: Free your mind and your future with Free Capital

April 30, 2011

A great book if you want to find your inner ambitious investor, plus lots of other good reads from around the web.

The Investor’s 2020 vision

April 28, 2011

After knocking off half a bottle of port and some over-ripe Stilton, I had the most peculiar dream. Share prices actually went up for a decade – and stayed up!

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Synthetic ETFs could pose a threat to global financial stability, say regulators

April 26, 2011

Rapid growth and financial engineering of synthetic ETFs has created a cocktail of poorly understood emerging risks for investors and global markets warn reports from the IMF and others.

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Weekend reading: The Economist does pensions

April 23, 2011

We can’t get enough of pensions at the moment. But unfortunately, we’re not paying enough into them, either.

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Rebalance with new contributions to save on grief and cost

April 21, 2011

Rebalancing with new contributions is the best way for investors with small portfolios to hit their target asset-allocation without excessive cost.

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An update on 2007′s high yield portfolio

April 19, 2011

I’d rather not review the HYP, in that it was a portfolio of shares bought just before the crash. But needs must, and you might be surprised at how it’s fared, however.

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Weekend reading: Black Swan blues

April 16, 2011

Excellent reading from the Worldy Wise Web. Once upon a time, Black Swans were rarer than golden geese. But then Nicholas Taleb wrote his bestseller The Black Swan (not to be confused with the pouting Natalie Portman vehicle) and Black Swans have ever since been ruffling feathers everywhere. I have nothing against Taleb’s dark tome, [...]

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Pay off the mortgage or invest?

April 14, 2011

It’s the age old question – pay off the mortgage or invest? And there’s no simple answer, which is my excuse for writing an exhaustive post on the subject.

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