Moomin Valley

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...

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...

I was calling our children Moomin and Baby Moomin on this blog. But the latter is no longer a baby, so let's call them Big and Little Mo...

For the last six years I've been putting together reports on our spending over the Australian financial year, which runs from 1 July to ...

Overview  This was the first year that our net worth fell since 2008. Investment returns were negative but the value of our house increased...

I also did Moominmama's taxes for this financial year. The post about last year's taxes is here . Here is a summary of her tax retur...

This year, I've prepared our tax returns earlier than usual as I have already received all the required information. Here is a summary o...