by The Investor
on June 5, 2009
I have been run off my feet recently, and unfortunately my $1 $2-a-day blogging habit has suffered as a result.
Unfortunate for me, I mean, because I love writing this blog.
(I know a few of you do enjoy regular updates, as you’ve been kind enough to tell me so via email. And we’re now up to 300 subscribers!)
But I do need to find a way to make blogging less time-consuming or, preferably, better paid, as the 10-20 hours a week I spend on Monevator is becoming unsustainable.
Some friends urge me to get more personal and to write shorter, more hands-on posts, with a weekly longer one to provide some meat. I may well explore this route in future, although I hope it doesn’t put off you loyal readers and subscribers!
For now though, I’m not going to finish a commercial property post I’ve been writing in time for tomorrow, so it’s going to have to wait until next week.
Instead here’s a few existing Monevator posts that even regulars might not have noticed before:
I hope you find something to enjoy, and do come back next week!
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by The Investor
on May 30, 2009
Some interesting financial and investing posts I ran across this week, plus a few decent articles from the newspapers.
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by The Investor
on May 28, 2009
I read a good article recently on how to construct an Ivy League fund using exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
The original article was for American investors. Here’s how British readers can do the same thing.
But why would you want an Ivy League style fund?
Well, the endowment funds of Ivy League universities like Yale and Harvard have historically achieved excellent returns, with less volatility than an index tracker.
Their success is partly because of special opportunities we can’t easily replicate, such as access to good hedge funds.
But they’ve also done well because of asset allocation, which we can copy with ETFs.
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by The Investor
on May 27, 2009
A couple of months ago I wrote a post entitled ‘Who isn’t buying this market right now?’
Shares were in freefall. The UK FTSE 100 had just hit 3,500 – a low not seen for a decade.
But as I wrote:
If you’re not trickling money into the markets at these levels then I think you might as well forget stock market investing altogether.
Since then the FTSE 100 has gone up over 20%, with some markets and shares doing much better. We could well be in a new bull market.
My March post wasn’t a claim I could time the market bottom, and this isn’t a boast that I did so. Besides, share prices could easily go back down from here.
My point was that you had to stand aside from the extreme negative press and plunge in if you were a long-term investor. You had to look at the depressed valuations, and remember that the best time to buy is when everyone else is in despair.
Today I read an article from Alan Steel, a fund manager, that backed up this view with a compelling list of historical parallels.
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