Dear readers, copiers and followers. Today I wanted to write a different post than usually. Not about investing itself, but more about life and how fulfilling education can be. Guess what?? Two days ago I got a call confirming that I have succefully passed the final exam for prestigeous CIIA charter granted by the Swiss…
Hello GAS subscribers! Herewith I am starting the series of my Weekly updates that will treat upon the most important issues that drove capital markets in the week just ended and prepare you for the week ahead. These posts are meant to be short, compound and precise. As I promised, no spam for GAS community!…
Hi all! A lot is going on in the world these days. A lot of nerves, fear, volatility in markets and economic uncertainty. But the SIA-style Pension Portfolio (PP) is full of Peace&Pacience already though – that’s what it is meant to provide in times like this!. Prepared and ready to go through the downturn.…
It is an extremely important thing to understand that every kind of investment carries certain amount of risk. Returns are as a rule a function of risk. Before starting to build an own portfolio of financial instruments everyone should first test their knowledge about financial instuments, their characteristics and the risks they carry. It is…
As is the case in every human activity, key to success is consistency. Whether you’re an enterpreneur or an employee, whether you teach at school or are a cardio surgeon, it’s always the rules you obey that drive your performance in what you do. In the investing world the word consistency should really be written…
This is not an easy task. This is actually an extremely tough process, which demands constant analysis and appropriate interpretation of hundreds of different macro statistics, trends, incoming data and events. Big banks have massive departments filled with statistitians, mathematicians, macroeconomic advisors and all other possible wise guys who do nothing else all days long,…
Smart Investing Approach (SIA) – it’s a philosophy of my thinking about investing. I have been conciously trying to develop it for at least 10 years now and I possibly tried to do it unconciously before during all the years that I have tried to survive all the ups and downs on capital markets, both…
I would like to thank You for choosing to read this post. For some of You it will be way too generalized and obvious, but for some, who are not experts in investing, this article hopefully becomes eye-opening and explorative. Understanding the proper attitude to becoming an investor is, in my view, crutial in the…
