Moomin Valley

I recently reported that my investment in the Aura VF2 fund was now in profit. Now, our Angellist investments through Unpopular Ventures ha...

After looking over some of my previous annual report posts, I realised that I haven't posted long-term graphs of net worth in recent ann...

As promised, here are the individual investment results for 2025 (Australian Dollars): Other costs and benefits like interest and fees and e...

All $ signs in this report indicate Australian Dollars. I'll do a separate report on individual investments. I do a report breaking down...

Little My (our second child) had a good year investment-wise: His estimated pre-tax return was 20.8%.* The ASX200 had a gross return includi...

Here is a summary of my 2024-25 Australian tax return (all numbers in Australian dollars): You can find previous years here . Our expected t...

Each year, I report on income and spending for the Australian financial year, which runs from 1 July to 30 June. This makes it easy to do a ...

This post breaks down the investment returns for 2024 at a very granular level. Other costs and benefits like interest and fees and exchange...

I said that I would update the annual performance numbers after receiving all private investment returns for the year. The final number for ...

The Australian r eports on the best performing super funds for 2024 . They focus on lifecycle, balanced, and sustainable options. I am sure ...

We are still waiting for the Aura venture funds to report, but I am guessing their values will be unchanged. So, now we can compute reasonab...

A year ago, we reconfigured Big Moomin's portfolio, which is managed by my brother, to provide better investment returns. This really p...

I also did Moominmama's taxes for this financial year. It only took me about 2 hours to do both as I am very organized :) You can find p...

I did our taxes earlier this year as Aura sent me a tax statement earlier than in previous years. Here is a summary of my taxes. You can fin...

The Australian reports on the performance of superannuation funds for the just completed financial year. This year, retail funds tended to ...

For the last seven years I've been putting together reports on our spending over the Australian financial year, which runs from 1 July t...

  To better understand our investment underperformance in 2023 let's dive into the returns on each individual investment. If we'd ma...

In the second half of 2023 I stopped writing monthly reports on this blog because each month's accounts had large errors.* But now I hav...

I haven't formally finalized the accounts for 2023 yet. I will need to wait to get investment returns on illiquid investments that repor...