ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) comprising of a basket of securities that jointly have some exposure to a certain investing story are called Thematic ETFs. It is a fast-growing sector of investing. Such securities can give great well-diversified value, but there’s often a lot of work to be done before buying it. Not all of them…
SP500 is now 1.2% away from making an all time high. If (or when) that happens, it will be the 2nd time in history after 1983 that the wide market makes a new all time high during a recession (I wrote about the reasons of such equity markets behaviour here as I rebalanced the GLP…
In this post I shortly explain the SIA-style Pension Portfolio end-of-month rebalancing. For a detailed description of recent market events that drove bonds, equities, commodities and FX in July please check my other post about GLP. The rebalance The usual monthly injection of $1k was used to purchase GLD. The reason is that Gold bullion…
Hi, Smart Investors. In this article I explain the major market developments of recent months and their impact on our SIA-style portfolios and proceed with the end-of-month rebalancing for GLP. The PP portfolio rebalance is explained here. Main trends of recent months We’re now 5 months into the Covid-19 recession. Meanwhile we saw a 37%…
Quite a bit of action on the markets in the middle of the summer season. We’re almost half way through the reporting season. As I wrote here the downbeat expectations make the 2Q20 positive aggregate earnings surprises quite impressive. A lot is going on in some of the commodities as well as the monetary and…
In this post I present the basics of macroeconomic cycles. I explain the main definitions and present the main streams of academic thinking about economic cycles. As you possibly know economic cycles constitute the possibly most important determinant of business life of temporary societies. They also are the very clue of our Smart Investing Approach.…
Last week could be split in half really. Bullish 1st half and much worse 2nd half. Here’s what was up in short: Last week -> Monday kicked off with a positive tone on the back of high-techs coming back from the previous week’s dismal underperformance. We also heard positive data on the Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford…
Greetings from the Netherlands dear Smart Investors! I strongly recommend visiting this beautiful flat-like-a-table country to anyone who likes active holidays. Biking routes are plenty everywhere and the Dutch plains are so easy for the kids to bike! You really feel save eveywhere you go with your bike, as bikers have top priority here :).…
Last week was pretty interesting actually, even though we’re in the middle of the summer season. There has been little macro data, hence the market concentrated more on stock-specific situations. Let’s take a look: Last week -> Global markets rallied on Monday to start the week, boosted, amongst others, by the Chinese government telling people…
In the Deep Dive into SIA series of articles I write in-depth analysis of the Smart Investing Approach (SIA). So far we have covered the following issues: Why should excess debt be avoided in picking stocks – Deep Dive into SIA (1) Are higher dividends better than higher growth? – Deep dive into SIA (2)…
