Reading Time: 2 Minutes Howdy everyone! It’s going to be a bit visual today, with a couple of graphs showing what the different returns for different asset classes were for 2019… I did a similar post on this last year which highlighted 2018 vs 2017 here. First, here are the stock market returns for 2019 vs 2018: Well done to Russia, IT and Greece. Polite applause to Poland, Chile and Argentina for participating. Although it must be said that looking back, 2018 was a fairly abysmal year, and that 2019 was much better across the board. Just goes to show that markets move in cycles – and unless you have…
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Exchange Traded Funds
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Howdy all! There is one area of personal finance which yours truly hasn’t really touched on, but has a disproportionate representation in many a FIRE portfolio. I’m talking of course, about ETF’s or Exchange Traded Funds. What is it? An ETF is a type of investment fund which can be bought and sold on an exchange, similar to stocks. They are split between “active”, which is managed by a fund manager looking to outperform the underlying index or market, and “passive” which track the underlying index or market i.e. achieve market returns. They were made famous by Mr Buffet who, in 2007 bet $1m that an…
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Difference between Trading and Investing
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Hey YOU! Yes you! Have you ever wanted to know the difference between Trading and Investing? Well, rest easy – because today’s post is courtesy of our good friend Renato from TradeRace Without further ado… take it away Renato! ~~~ Trading and investing are two different things and both have risks. Trading refers to an activity of exchange like the exchange in currencies, information, other goods, and services. The goal is to gain profit from your existing positions. The stock market and forex are a good example of this. Investing is all about expending money with the hopes of making a profit from it. The faster…
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How to Invest in Berkshire Hathaway Shares? Introducing… STAKE!
This post may contain affiliate links, meaning I may receive a commission if you decide to sign-up using my links/code at no cost to you. Please read on for more info. Reading Time: 3 Minutes Howdy all! Some VERY exciting news here. OK, so we all know who Warren Buffet is. Most know what Berkshire Hathaway is, which is the company Buffet owns to, y’know, buy stuff. But did you know that the return for those investors who were at the beginning of Berkshire Hathaway (in its current form) from 1965 to 2018, is a whopping… 2,472,627%… um wow. Compare that to the S&P 500 which returned just over 15,000%…
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Here we go again…Down $6k, What Next?
Reading Time: 2 Minutes And it’s back. Just when things were inching their way upwards. BAM. We get hit with another round of trade wars (wrote an earlier piece here), and now further interest rate cuts from a few of the central banks around the world… Looking decidedly SHAKY ain’t it? Suffice to say, yours truly has been caught up with the recent sell-off, down about 6 grand in the space of a week. Who said investing was easy! I find it a bit ironic that I place so much focus and attention to equities, considering it is a small fraction of the overall net worth yet has an enormous…
