Well, that’s odd! The Slow & Steady passive portfolio is up year-to-date, by 2.7%. It’s up over the past twelve months by 6.4%. I’ll take that. It feels unreal to be talking about those kinds of returns as a global recession sweeps our economic shoreline like a tsunami. Can our chums in the world’s central […]
Read More →What caught my eye this week. Seekers after financial freedom like us don’t posture about the car we drive or plonk our new handbag or iPhone down in the middle of the table when we meet our friends. But you do still see one-upmanship in this community: “Call this a bear market? I don’t even […]
Read More →Passive investing champion Lars Kroijer is back with another trio of answers to your investing questions. Once again this is a collaboration between Monevator and Lars’ popular YouTube channel. This time we sent Lars some queries we’ve received in the Covid-19 era. As before, his answers are in both video and edited transcript form below. Note: […]
Read More →How much will bond prices fall if and when interest rates go up? With many government bond yields straying into negative territory or teetering on the brink, surely this asset class now only offers the prospect of painful loss in the years ahead? Or maybe not? You can get an intuitive feel for how big […]
Read More →What caught my eye this week. I have a soft spot for income investing. I haven’t actually (naughtily, actively) invested with a focus on income since the financial crisis, though. (Why not? That’s a whole other story.) I still expect to live off investment income when I’ve had enough of spinning the wheel on my […]
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