Weekend Reading – Vanguard On How To Integrate Commodities Into Your Portfolio
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Young people associate happiness with success, while older people know it's content and gratitude.
INVEST WISELY
This section is dedicated to research on how to invest for the Long Run using Passive Investment Strategies. Read Topics related to (i) Portfolio Construction and Asset Allocation (ii) Acting wisely by avoiding behavioural traps and also (iii) publications that help understand how financial markets work.
CONSTRUCT YOUR PORTFOLIO
- Vanguard on How to Protect Your Portfolio with Commodities in the Short and Medium Term (Vanguard)
- Seven Principles for Successful Investing (JP Morgan)
- How Long Is The Long Term in Investing? (Retirement Researcher)
- Taking stock of Reinvestment Risk (The Evidence Based Investor)
- Just because the 60/40 portfolio didn't work out last year, doesn't mean this year will be the same (Morningstar)
HOW TO INVEST
- The urge to tinker with your investment process (Behavioural Investment)
- Self awareness is the best antidote to avoid overtrading (Humble Dollar)
- Evidence from the UK - should we all just switch to passive ETFs? (ETF Stream)
- What do active fund managers think about active investing? (The Evidence Based Investor)
UNDERSTAND FINANCIAL MARKETS
- The economy is not the market. The market is not the economy. (Fortunes & Frictions)
- In conversation with Howard Marks on Inflation, the FED & Markets (Bloomberg - 13 Min)
- You don’t need fancy academic research to predict bubbles (The Onveston Letter)
- After a timeout, Back to the Meat Grinder! (GMO)
- Japan - The Risk of Contagion For The Global Economy (Pension Craft - 15 Min)
- Similar to Europe, off exchange ETF volume in the US is booming (ft.com - click on the first link)
In conversation with Carl Kawaja on the dynamism of financial markets (Invest like the best - 1 hr 12 min)
Carl is a portfolio manager at Capital Group, where he’s quietly overseen a huge portfolio for decades. In true Kawaja fashion, the podcasts goes all over the map and discuss Apple, the Amazonian rainforest, baseball, the oil & gas industry, Muhammad Ali, and more.
ACTIVE INVESTING
This section relates to improving your knowledge about active investing. If you decide to sin, then sin only a little. Given ample evidence, combined active bets should be ideally a relatively small fraction of your portfolio.
FACTOR & Thematic investing
STOCKS
A data-driven approach to picking growth stocks and thematic baskets (Flirting With Models - 14 Min )
It’s no secret that high flying growth stocks were hammered in 2022, so here is a revisit of a conversation with Jason Thomson.
Jason is a portfolio manager at O’Neil Global Advisors, where he manages highly concentrated portfolios of growth stocks.
SUSTAINABLE investing
This section is about Sustainable Investing. You can invest in a Socially Responsible way but there are many ESG traps. Learn how to invest sustainably, and what it means for expected returns, with the our definitve guide to sustainable investing.
3 Sustainable Investing Strategies That Actually Work
There are at least three proven sustainable investing strategies.
To keep it simple, you may hold a non-screened portfolio and, use the incremental profits for philanthropy.
If you want to avoid investing in certain types of industries, e.g. Tobacco companies, you may select cost-efficient and well-diversified SRI Funds. The most active sustainable strategy is Impact Investing.
ALTERNATIVE ASSET CLASSES
FROM WALL STREET
crypto & blockchain
REMINDERS TO PUNT RESPONSIBLY
In conversation with Madoff Trader & Investor Andrew Cohen (Excess Returns - 51 min )
With the recent release of the Netflix documentary “Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street,” many of us have been learning more of the details behind the scandal. Andrew Cohen, participated in the documentary and was both a trader on the legitimate side of Madoff’s business and a victim of the Ponzi scheme. Andrew gives us an inside look at what it was like to work in the Madoff organization and takes us through the timeline of events from when he started there to when the Ponzi scheme was uncovered.
DIVE DEEPER - BOOKS & MOVIES
In the Book review section we rate some of the most relevant resources related to Financial Independence, Personal Finance and Investing. Browse All Book and Video Reviews.
15 Years On, We Fall For The Same Tricks – Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street On Netflix (Review)
The 2023 Netflix docuseries Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street dives into the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth $64.8 billion.
Although the Madoff madness stopped in late 2008, today’s investors still fall for the very same tricks.
What exactly can we learn from this series?
Let’s have a closer look.
PERSONAL FINANCE
This section is dedicated to UK and European Products. It can also touch on other European jurisdictions outside the Euro-zone.
Live, Love, Later - The Ultimate Early Retirement Checklists
- The first ‘L’ is Living Life. How do you plan around life essentials while reducing unnecessary costs?
- The second ‘L’ is Loving Life. It’s usually the mismanaged L. It’s not only about the destination but also the journey and values that define you today.
- The third ‘L’ is Later Life. How to invest wisely for Early Retirement.
FINANCIAL PRODUCTS
COST OF LIVING
DESIGN YOUR LIFESTYLE
This section is dedicated to the ‘Why’ of Investing, trends or career choices.
LIFESTYLE
- It is time to uncomplicate your health and your wealth (Tony Isola)
- Using Money to avoid unhappiness (Humble Dollar)
- In conversation with Wade Davis on how to become the archtitect of your life (The Tim Ferris Show - 2 hr 34 min)
- Move the body, heal the mind (Art of Manliness - 48 Min)
- You can and should indulge in the things you love, but you also must find your balance. (Accidentally Retired)
EARLY RETIREMENT
On taking the road less travelled by to financial independence (ChooseFi - 1 hr 11 min)
In this episode: taking the unconventional path, the price of time, early entrepreneurship, talent stacking, and the pursuit of learning. At least once in most of our FI journeys, we have pondered what our life would look like if we started earlier. Maybe you have even wondered what value could’ve been gained if you had started in your teenage years.
CAREERS
TECH & ECONOMY
James Clear, Atomic Habits — Mastering Habits, Growing an Email List to 2M+ People (2hrs)
James Clear (@JamesClear) is a writer and speaker focused on habits and continuous improvement. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Atomic Habits, which covers easy and proven ways to build good habits and break bad ones.
Travel
miscellaneous
On relationships, dating & money (Ramit Sethi - )
Christine Benz answers the question, “how much can I spend in retirement?”
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