Ideas for your defensive asset allocation. What to use and why
Investing
We can’t really call equities an inflation hedge. Not when their real return falls with high inflation!
Many in the Monevator community ask about how to manage multiple portfolios, especially as part of a single family household. Reader Sunil sums up the dilemma: I understand the importance of diversification, but what about across multiple portfolios? I have a SIPP and ISA, and run a SIPP and ISA for my wife. That’s four [...]
There are safer investments and there are riskier investments, but there’s no such thing as ‘safe’. You must always consider timescales, too.
Investing edge is (mostly) a fantasy concocted by people that (mostly) don’t have it, in order to make you pay.
Irish ETFs are issued to UK investors as CDIs, post-Brexit. What on Earth does that mean?
Another trio of burning questions answered by the ex-hedge fund manager turned passive guru!
Enterprise Investment Schemes offer ways to reduce your tax bill, but they’re not simple or risk-free investments…
The Accumulator sets alight the torch of freedom and goes full FIRE. TLDR: he’s left work for good.
If the movie Contagion contained a scene showing the hero’s passive portfolio, then it didn’t look like this.
The platforms would have you believe nearly anyone can become an ISA millionaire. What do you think?
Experts have warned us to prepare for low returns from investing for years now. Count me as skeptical about the value of such predictions. You may recall in 2012 the UK regulator dropping a bomb on pension forecasts. The FSA ((A now-defunct regulator, basically replaced by the FCA.)) told financial providers to project low returns [...]