Moomin Valley

  I invested in this startup via Anglelist. Turns out that I invested more in this one (USD 15k) than any other, Now they are shutting down....

The last installment of the Investments Review, though, actually, there will be an action plan coming up! Bitcoin Portfolio share: 11.9% IR...

Count Financial told clients to sell private credit funds managed by Metrics Credit Partners. This crashed the share price of MOT.AX, one of...

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 (...

3i (III.L) is one of our more successful and larger investments with an IRR of 24% and a net worth share of 4.4%. Note that the scale on th...

We start with our best investment ever in dollar terms: gold.  I first invested in gold back in 2006. Then there was a long period where th...

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

Back in 2021, I co-invested alongside Aura AUD 100k in Integrated Portfolio Solutions, a private company. At the time, I thought there wasn...

I sold another 500 shares of UK private equity firm 3i. At the peak I had 5,000 shares and a net investment of around £41k. Now I have 3,500...

Regal Partners announced that it is acquiring Merricks Capital, a private credit manager. The performance of their main fund is quite remar...

I just bought 1,000 shares of the Putnam BDC Income ETF . This is an actively managed ETF that invests in US business development companies....

So, as soon as I had increased the cash buffer i n our offset account, I got AUD 40k of capital calls, so back to square one again. The capi...

Expected that some or even many companies will go bust in this space. This is the first individual venture investment of ours that went bust...

I fixed my margin loan interest rate for the next year at 7.69% instead of a variable rate 9.15%. I am paying the interest in arrears. At th...

I sold some Pengana Private Equity (PE1.AX) shares as they are trading above NTA and bought some Cordish Dixon Private Equity Fund III (CD3....

I got a message from Interactive Brokers that I needed to renew my wholesale investor status as two years had passed since I submitted an ac...

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

Back at the beginning of 2021 I opened an HSBC account for Moominmama because Plus 500 refused to send money to an account in our joint name...

Unpopular Ventures offered a syndicated investment in the seed round of a start-up based in Europe. I can't give any details of the inv...

We have invested in a rolling fund – Unpopular Ventures – on the AngelList platform. We invested in Moominmama's name (because she is ...