5 must read posts

How to create an Ivy League endowment fund using UK ETFs

May 28, 2009

The endowment funds of Ivy League universities like Yale and Harvard have historically achieved excellent returns, with less volatility than an index tracker fund.

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Seven psychological quirks that destroy investment returns

April 30, 2009

This is a guest post from Tim who authors the Psy-Fi blog, an excellent take on psychology and finance. Making money from stocks is easy enough if we can defeat the main enemy – ourselves. There’s no getting around the fact that us humans are subject to lots of biases and psychological quirks that combine [...]

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Why a little passive income from a side project is worth a lot more than you think

February 13, 2009

It’s very easy to become disheartened when you first set up a side project with the aim of earning some passive income. You might well only make a few pounds or dollars a day, even after weeks or months of work to get your passive income stream up-and-running. Most passive income projects fail to make [...]

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Seven surprising things you may not know about Warren Buffett

December 4, 2008

I have just finished the The Snowball, the first biography Warren Buffett has cooperated with. It’s full of surprises, such as how Buffett had three leading ladies for two decades, and how his 1960s home was an accidental outpost of the counterculture. But I’m more interested in how Buffett made his money. And while there’s [...]

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