Moomin Valley

Gradually, over time I am fixing errors in my old accounts. I want to have a reasonably accurate record of investment performance and spendi...

AngelList have announced a new mutual fund investing in venture capital called USVC . You can invest as little as USD 500. I have been think...

Keybank are increasing the security precautions on their bank accounts. You will need either a US phone number or a "passkey" to l...

I am helping a friend make a move from New York to Texas with financial advice and a small loan. Talking about budgeting got me to go look a...

I just updated this graph, which breaks net worth down into savings, inheritance, and investment profits.  Savings are from salaries etc a...

Following up from the discussion on the safe withdrawal rate  here is the history of our required withdrawal rate. This is the past twelve m...

I was wondering how much each asset class has contributed to our total profits to date. It was easy to compute this number using the spreads...

Back in April, I got a letter from the UK pension authority laying out the voluntary contributions I could make to get a UK pension. They se...

Generation Global Fund is one of our longest held investments. I first invested in April 2008 . It was a good fund but has been weaker recen...

So I wore this shirt to lunch with a couple of friends today: After the first friend left, I was saying how I hated buying clothes (because ...

I've managed to build some confidence in investing in bitcoin and the larger crypto ecosystem by following a few key people: Oscar Carb...

I am expecting my rate of return over the last 20 years to look bad this year because 2004 was such a good year. In 2004 I gained 42.4% comp...

My aunt died in 2020. She was single all her life. My father and her did not get on well. They fought each other in court over their mother...

Got an email from Commonwealth Bank that mentions their "Benefits Finder" button in the CommBank App. This can help you find missi...

If we create a portfolio invested 50% in VDBA and 50% in VDGR we can simulate a 60/40 passive benchmark: This requires monthly rebalancing...

Following up from my post on how our SMSF is performing compared to our managed superannuation funds, here is how our superannuation in ge...

  I was wondering whether we were getting worse off over time at my employer and so plotted my real and nominal pre-tax salary for the time ...

  I didn't notice when the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the 2019-20 data on Australian household income and wealth distribut...

This year's tax returns include large amounts of franking credits connected to Australian dividends. I almost managed to wipe out Moo...

Enough Wealth has a new post comparing our two NetWorthShare net worth curves titled a Tale of Two Bloggers . He took out the step changes d...