You are ready to start investing your savings and you start wondering: what if the broker goes bust? How safe is the money I worked so hard to earn? Do the broker’s investor protection mechanisms also apply to me given I don’t live in the broker’s country? Can I trust a broker for 30 years? […]
Choosing an investment portfolio is overwhelming. There are so many “lazy” options out there: Three-fund Portfolio, Core-4 Portfolio, Coffeehouse Portfolio, Permanent Portfolio, Yale Endowment Portfolio, etc. Some of these options are more complex than their “lazy” name seems to suggest. Moreover, many of these “lazy” portfolios feature US domiciled funds which are not available for […]
The MSCI World is one of the most popular indexes for European investors. That popularity is reflected in the number of MSCI World UCITS ETFs available: 13. It can get confusing to choose among similar alternatives with minor differences. So, how do you determine which MSCI World UCITS ETF is best for you? The MSCI […]
As I mentioned in my overview of DEGIRO, the broker has a long list of commission free ETFs. When you stumble into that list for the first time you may wonder: which ones should I be buying? Which DEGIRO commission free ETFs are the best? How do commission free ETFs work? Your first trade of […]
Recording your ETF transactions allows you to keep an historic log of your investment history and visualize the performance of your whole portfolio. Portfolio Performance is the free (and open-source) tool I use to track my investments. There are many (free and paid) alternatives to Portfolio Performance. I chose Portfolio Performance for the following reasons: […]
Lars Kroijer has a free video series called Investment Demystified where he introduces the key concepts of his book with the same name. The video series consists of 5 videos lasting in total 30 minutes. It is a great way to quickly get exposed to the learnings of the book without having to spend hours […]
Sometimes it is easy to get lost with all the information about investing you can find in this site. You may understand the concepts and feel informed but you still have a hard time grasping all the steps that you need to undertake in order to start investing. Here I want to outline all the […]
Interactive Brokers (a.k.a IB) is one of the popular brokers which are available to investors in multiple European countries. Along with DEGIRO, Interactive Brokers is one of the Brokers you may consider to transact index funds (ETFs) whenever there aren’t better local alternatives. My goal with this article is to use the framework I shared […]
I find it useful to keep a ledger of all my ETF transactions. This has been immensely valuable for me for the following reasons: I have changed brokers a few times but I can go to my personal record to see the details of transactions I’ve made years ago. How likely is it that you […]
If you are looking for a quick introduction to investing in index funds, Bernstein’s “If You Can – How millennials can get rich slowly” is my favorite recommendation. I have recommended other books as well but “If You Can” is remarkable because it is only 16 pages long, it is free and it covers the […]