What caught my eye this week.
Finally my co-blogger The Accumulator has won the acclaim he so richly deserves.
No, not a plaudit for achieving the most active puns in a passive post.
Not the Leo Tolstoy Award for Services to Word Counts Beyond The Call of Anything Reasonable But Rather Really Excessive Haven’t You Even Heard of Twitter 2021 Edition.
Not even a retrospective of his black and white cartoons at the V&A.
But rather, a notification from The Motley Fool’s All-Star Money [1] to tell us The Accumulator had won their article of the week spot with his Fighting The FIRE Demons [2] post.
And the prize?
This artist’s impression of The Accumulator in bobblehead form:
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Now, given how The Accumulator has cultivated an air of anonymous mystery around these parts, you might wonder why we’re so ready to share this homunculus with you all?
And the answer is you’re more likely to see The Accumulator doubling down on a triple-levered ETF than rocking a tie.
Meanwhile that wodge of cash would be out of his hands and invested into a long-term tracker fund before you could say, “I’ve worked out the terminal value of my round compounded in VRWL for 25 years and on reflection I’m sure I can hear my bus pulling up outside.”
And while TA is just as devilishly handsome as Bobblehead TA, our man is also older, more careworn, and about as likely to grin as Boris Johnson announcing a third wave.
In short, anonymity is preserved!
Nevertheless, it’s a wonderful treat from the All-Star Money team – thank you guys – and the least TA deserves after a decade of peerless posts for Monevator.
Just so long as he doesn’t expect a pay rise.
Have a great weekend everyone!
From Monevator
Can dogs and financial independence go together? – Monevator [4]
How to manage multiple portfolios – Monevator [5]
Beating inflation versus hedging inflation – Monevator [6]
From the archive-ator: Are you lost in Neverland? – Monevator [7]
News
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UK economy grew faster in April as shops reopened – BBC [9]
Ministers aim to spur domestic tourism with cut-price UK rail pass – Guardian [10]
House prices hit another record high with the average home up a mammoth £22,000 in just a year – ThisIsMoney [11]
Smashed prices: Australians enjoy avocados that cost a mere $1 – Guardian [12]
UK air taxi firm Vertical Aerospace to float in New York – Guardian [13]
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There are no bad assets… just bad prices [With PDF download] – GMO [15]
Products and services
There were 80 new 5% deposit mortgages launched last month – ThisIsMoney [16]
Offer: Open a SIPP at Interactive Investor and you pay no SIPP admin fee for six months, saving you £60 – Interactive Investor [17]
What to do if you were scammed by a Marcus clone site – Which [18]
Index providers: the whales behind the scenes of ETFs [Research] – SSRN [19]
Sign-up to Freetrade via my link and we can both get a free share worth between £3 and £200 – Freetrade [20]
Fintech 3.0: an overview [Nerdy!] – John Street Capital [21]
Homes for sale fit for a Queen’s birthday, in pictures – Guardian [22]
Comment and opinion
Fear – Enso Finance [23]
Build the addition – About Your Benjamins [24]
The top nine (bad) arguments against Bitcoin – The Simple Path to Wealth [25]
A guide to moving from cash to investments – Compound Advisers [26]
What to expect from the stock market – Humble Dollar [27]
The million pound pension problem [Search result] – FT [28]
Index funds have too much voting power – Morningstar [29]
Are rich people better investors? – Klement on Investing [30]
Beware of anti-money hiccups when joining a new platform [Plus a rant] – Simple Living in Somerset [31]
Complementing a core strategy with managed futures [Geeky!] – Wisdom Tree [32]
Inflation for nerds mini-special
Why wage inflation can’t be transitory – The Reformed Broker [33]
Booth and Fama on rising inflation – The Evidence-based Investor [34]
Economists discuss: is inflation really dead? [Video] – via YouTube [35]
Naughty corner: Active antics
Is there a better way to invest in meme stocks? – Of Dollars and Data [36]
Inflation versus speculation – Feld Thoughts [37]
The 10 biggest mistakes made by fund investors – Behavioural Investment [38]
A deep dive into Fundsmith’s emerging markets trust – IT Investor [39]
UK Value Investor updates on his model million pound portfolio – UK Value Investor [40]
The dean of valuation looks at SPACs – Musings on Markets [41]
A profile of the bullish US value investor John Rogers – Institutional Investor [42]
Why one firm’s portfolio managers code in Python – Institutional Investor [43]
Covid corner
Unvaccinated are most at risk from Delta variant – BBC [44]
Did any of the anti-Covid mandates really make a difference? – Vox [45]
Rapid Covid tests used in mass UK programme get scathing US report – Guardian [46]
Kindle book bargains
Liars Poker by Michael Lewis – £0.99 on Kindle [47]
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks – £0.99 on Kindle [48]
Legacy by James Kerr – £0.99 on Kindle [49]
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – £0.99 on Kindle [50]
Environmental factors
The decade of new veganism – GQ [51]
Off our beat
Gareth Southgate: Dear England – The Players’ Tribune [52]
In space, nobody can hear Jeff Bezos. So can Richard Branson go, too? – Guardian [53]
The 20-5-3 rule on how much time to spend outside – Men’s Health [54]
Microsoft Excel is now an e-sport. Yes, really – MSN [55]
“You don’t have enough work because you’re walking too much – and other weird things I don’t miss about office life” – Elizabeth Tai [56]
Feeling sorry for people who won’t buy an Apple Watch [57] – Anthony Lawrence [58]
And finally…
“One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.”
– Thomas J. Stanley, The Millionaire Next Door [59]
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