Moomin Valley

Here is our spending for the Australian financial year 2019-2020. The shaded areas are sub-categories of the main categories above them. The...

The stock market continued to rise, though at a slower pace. Things gradually edged towards normality here in this part of Australia. Our s...

Today I met on Zoom the accountant who has agreed to certify me as a wholesale investor. There are two reasons I want this certification. Fi...

I wrote a post when I first invested in the Aura Venture Fund but have only mentioned it briefly since then.  I committed to invest AUD 100...

This month the stockmarket rose at a slower pace. This month, our spending was again low relative to pre-COVID-19. We spent AUD 5.3k whi...

So, Interactive Brokers finally allowed Australian clients to again borrow money . I enabled margin borrowing on both Moominmama's and m...

I made an investment in this unlisted hedge fund that is open to retail investors. Our long-term goal is to invest 10.5% of assets in Austra...

This month saw a rebound in the stockmarket and in Australia the rate of new COVID-19 infections and deaths fell to near zero (and zero in ...

This month the financial crisis following the COVID-19 pandemic intensified. Up to around the 20th of the month there was chaos in fi...

This month the whole family traveled to New Zealand for a week.This was baby Moomin's first international trip. He also started daycare...

Since October 2018 when we nominally received the inheritance, the total allocated to cash, futures, gold, and bonds has remained fairly c...

A relatively uneventful month. Even though I went into the branch, I still have no news from HSBC on refinancing our mortgage... The Aust...

Back in August last year I designed a portfolio and invested for Baby Moomin with Generation Life . How well have his investments done? I ha...

Financial Independence recently asked in the comments why I don't just invest in a portfolio of stock index funds. I answered that I a...

Here are the contributions of each of 86 individual investments or trading vehicles in the 2019 calendar year (Australian Dollars): Of ...

Investment Returns In Australian Dollar terms we gained 12.61% for the year and in USD terms we gained 12.16%. This is a lot less than sto...

This month I decided to stop short-term trading again. I think you can make money doing what I was doing, but trading at a size that makes...

Following up on my post on the best portfolios for Australia , this post will lay out the new target portfolio allocation. The basic idea is...

The portfolio charts website, I wrote about before , now lets you do analysis using Australian assets, inflation etc! It turns out that the...

I've decided to stop short-term trading. In recent months it hasn't made any money, it takes up a lot of time, and it gives me a...

Well, that didn't last long. In November's report I said I would raise the risk allocation to palladium and soybeans. I just got sto...

A less frenetic month financially but somehow I didn't get to make any blogposts since October's monthly report . We started on ref...

The graph shows the monthly profits from idealized trading of an optimal portfolio of Bitcoin, palladium, crude oil, and soybeans futures...