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DO-IT-YOURSELF INVESTING: Gear up your wealth

Bankeronwheels.com is unlike most Investment websites you have come across

DO-IT-YOURSELF INVESTING: Gear up your wealth

Bankeronwheels.com is unlike most Investment websites you have come across

LATEST FEATURES

LATEST FEATURES

Constructing a Bond Ladder with UCITS iBonds (Updated Review)

Have you ever considered matching Bond cash flows with a life event, like buying a house, or kids’ tuition fees, by using an ETF? 

iBonds act like regular Bonds. The ETF will mature, and you will be repaid at a predetermined date.

However, they offer several ETF advantages over regular bonds – they trade like stocks, are diversified, and don’t require high investment amounts to get

Investing GUIDES & TOOLS

Include Hidden Fees

The tool provides an estimate of the overall cost over the simulated investment horizon, with an initial lump sum and monthly investments, including (i) Trading Commissions (ii) Custody Fees (iii) Inactivity Fees and (iv) Maintenance/Account Management Fees. Give the tool a try and let us know how we can improve it.

Let’s face it, hardly anyone understands this topic. 

We went on a few-month journey to understand what was happening behind the scenes. In this series of guides we bust two myths around ESG. What may surprise you is that: (i) ESG Ratings in most Equity ETFs are not designed to protect the planet (ii) On a Risk-adjusted basis, ESG ETFs will, in the long run, inevitably underperform.

Are Bonds or Cash Preferable?

Most investors are still surprised to hear that Bond ETFs can lose 20% or more. Bonds can also ‘pop’ during a crisis when they gain as much in value in a few weeks!

Another related question is whether keeping cash is preferable? Let’s play with a simplified Bond ETF calculator to get an intuitive sense of what is the upside and downside of Bond ETFs.

ETFS

This series of guides dives into each type of investment and geography, based on Academia and our Portfolio Management experience. We first design a dedicated framework for ETF selection and then select the Best ETFs. Our guides are: Simple, Tailored, Tax-Efficient with respect to dividends and Sustainable when desired and intellectually honest.

 

This series of guides is Bankeronwheels.com’s deep dive into cheap Investing. We look at ETF Costs: by selecting the best performing ETF based on Tracking Difference and TERs, Taxes: owed to foreign and local governments on received dividends, FX Fees: Conversion fees when investing in another currency and receiving dividends and Invisible Costs: When trading ETFs, including spreads.

Investing GUIDES

Choosing a Broker

MASTER GUIDE SERIES – SUSTAINABLE INVESTING

Our Guide to ESG & SRI Investing – avoid Wall Street’s traps!

ETF SELECTION GUIDES

Choosing an Equity ETF

ETF SELECTION MASTER GUIDE SERIES

Learn How To Slash Investing Costs AND Taxes

BEST BOND ETFs 

Should I invest in Cash or Bond ETFs? Review all our Bond ETF Guides.

REACH FINANCIAL FREEDOM SOONER

REACH FINANCIAL FREEDOM SOONER

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Don’t spend your entire life working a job you don’t love so that you can maybe retire at 65.
Make your money work for you while you sleep.

Given a reasonable time horizon and if you follow right principles you have, by historical standards, no chance of losing money. 

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