Finance 201: What is the Golden-Butterfly Portfolio?

Hi friends, Today I shall be talking about something that is similar to the All-Weather portfolio, and one that is compared to the All-Weather by other financial writers. This portfolio has a higher exposure to stocks as compared to the All-weather. It is supposed to have a similar return as the US...

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Daydream Session: What would I do if I won $1,000,000

Hi friends, Recently, as I was writing my FYP, a youtube video caught my attention. It was titled "Why winning the lottery is the worst thing that can happen to you". It was particularly interesting as the show gave cases where winners of the lottery ended up badly after striking the lottery. They either ended up bankrupt, dead, or spent all their money such that they went back to the life they...

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Books by the Greats: Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Hi friends, Today, I would like to talk about a financial book (not investment) but about personal finance. I think it is time for me to zoom back out to the personal finance topic that my blog first started out with (Not sure if you remember that there was a time when I talked beyond the scope of investing?) But yes, the decision to zoom out to personal finance has led me to this book - Broke...

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Books by the Greats: One Up on Wall Street

Hi friends, Today, I wish to write about a book written by one of the best active mutual fund managers of his time - Peter Lynch's One Up on Wall Street. I have written about him before in my investor spotlight, for those that are interested, you can head on to that post to learn more about him. But here is a brief introduction - He is the portfolio manager of Fidelity's Magellan fund from 1977 to...

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Books by the Greats: The Millionaire Next Door

Hi friends,  Today, I would strongly recommend you this book: The Millionaire Next Door. This is a book that I would highly recommend if you seek to build wealth through your life, but you are worried that you cannot do it due to your circumstances. For this book, the authors had interviewed over...

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Books by the Giants: The little book of Value Investing

Hi friends,  Today I am going to talk about the value investor who has once serviced the likes of Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett - Christopher H. Browne. He was the partner of Tweedy, Browne Company, where he serviced the famous investors listed just now. He is a famous value investor, his mutual funds (which take a value investing approach) outperformed the market returns for a period of...

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Investor Spotlight: Warren Buffett

Hi friends,  After talking about John Bogle (Inventor of Index Funds), Peter Lynch (Legendary active fund manager), I want to talk about the most famous investor in history: Warren Buffett. He is the 4th wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of $88.9 billion as of December 2019. He...

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Books by the Giants: The little book that beats the market

Hi guys,  Today's book is interesting. It is written by a well-known hedge fund manager and value investor Joel Greenblatt. The reason why I find the book so interesting is that it was written in a way for teenagers to understand how to look for value stocks using easily-comprehensible parameters...

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