Moomin Valley

Time to tweak the target portfolio we use for benchmarking and asset class allocation. I am lowering the allocation to futures from 7.5% to ...

Moominmama is a Chinese Mum who stereotypically thinks you should sacrifice anything for your children's education. Her friend from uni ...

Masterworks sold the Hockney painting I invested in . Profit after fees is 23% and the IRR was 6%. They are giving the option to reinvest in...

I have been saying no to investing in Aura's new venture capital fund when I have been asked. My reason was that I am retiring and don...

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...

So, I now have a copy of the contract for my retirement and severance package, following it previously being approved . I will hand in the d...

A year ago, I wrote a post about whether you should initially keep your superannuation in accumulation mode when you retire. I thought tha...

I heard yesterday that my employer approved my redundancy under this round of the  voluntary redundancy scheme . So, if everything goes smoo...

The university has reopened the v oluntary redundancy scheme after saying that there will be no further forced redundancies. It looks like t...

Just over a year ago, I sold out of Platinum Capital (PMC.AX). It had been under-performing and the company announced a plan to merge it wit...

  The Reserve Bank of Australia Building Same as last year , I just fixed my margin loan rate for the next financial year. The variable ra...

It's time to update the target portfolio again. The last time I posted about this was here I think. The main change is that it is getti...

This is the action plan resulting from the Investments Review : Immediate Action 1. Stop re-investing distributions at Winton Global Alpha. ...

Here is another way of looking at the UK pension, which I have applied to contribute to. Our net worth not counting our house is about AUD...

  This was totally not on my radar. When procrastinating on Wednesday, I saw an article in the Fin Review about how Australians who had wor...

The latest episode . I met the director on Thursday. They didn't try to discourage me from doing it (I didn't expect they would). Th...

I now have a meeting lined up with my boss and discussed the whole thing with a colleague who took a similar package in 2020. He said that t...

VSS stands for "Voluntary Separation Scheme". The details were announced this afternoon. There are three weeks to apply for it fro...

I feel that 1997 might be a good analogy to 2025. After an aborted recession in 1994 (2022) the stock market went up strongly in both 1995 (...

So my employer announced a couple of days ago in the weekly newsletter that there will be a voluntary redundancy scheme. The details won...