Aloha! May goes on and it turns out that this time it’s not a “sell in May and go away” scenario, as some feared at the start of the month. Most major markets keep holding up after massive April gains and consolidate within relatively narrow ranges digesting the progress of reopening the global economy and…
Hi all Smart Investors out there! I hope that the Weeklies, even though quite compound, do provide value for you in terms of updating you on major market drivers and cutting out the noise. Remember a Smart Investor has an investment perspective way beyond current little ups and downs, as much important as they may…
Hello Smart Investors! I hope you’re doing OK out there during the hard times we’re going through these days. Today I would like to start a series of posts that will elaborate in depth on why some of the specific SIA assumptions are as they are . Let’s call this series Deep Dive into SIA.…
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…
