Moomin Valley

Treasury (TWE.AX) rose sharply today with no announcement from the company or news in the media. At one point it was up 9%. This was on a d...

As there is no estate or inheritance tax in Australia, I think it makes much more sense to give money to charity while you are alive rather ...

I made it my new year resolution to finally set up an SMSF. This is the next step in our financial restructuring process. The final step wil...

The rallies in the Australian Dollar and the stock markets continued this month. The Australian Dollar fell from USD 0.7725 to USD 0.7663....

  I sold 2000 shares of the Boulder Income Fund (BIF) closing our position and bought 100 shares of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/B) instead. Ber...

It's rare to see hedge funds beating the major stock indices to the upside these days, but that's what happened in December when the...

  As promised, here are the contributions of each of 62 investments to our annual investment return. Of course, these numbers (in Australian...

Overview  The main financial themes of this year for us was continuing to invest the money we inherited in late 2018 and surprisingly stro...

    I opened a CFD trading account with Plus 500 in Moominmama's name in order to hedge Bitcoin trades over the weekend and do other tra...

Recently, I invested in the Aura Venture Fund II. There was a "first close" but the fund is still accepting new investors before ...

The rallies in the Australian Dollar and the stock markets continued this month. The Australian Dollar rose from USD 0.7361 to USD 0.7725. T...

About one and a half years ago I opened an account for baby Moomin with Generation Life to invest the money he inherited from my mother. For...

Inspired by Financial Samurai's post , here are the track records of our two Interactive Brokers accounts over 2020. Moominpapa (in USD ...

Inspired by Financial Samurai's latest post , I am updating my post on the Yale Endowment . They have released preliminary results for t...

Following up on yesterday's post on our spending over time in different categories, I made another pretty graph, this time of the breakd...

The chart shows our spending over the last four Australian tax years. The 2020-21 figures are an estimate based on the first five months of ...

 I took a more granular look at currency exposures: So, actually I still have less than 50% exposure to the Australian Dollar. This probab...

Stock markets rose strongly and the US Dollar fell this month. The Australian Dollar rose from USD 0.7036 to USD 0.7361. The MSCI World Ind...

  Today, I bought 5,000 shares of Treasury Wine @ AUD 8.42 a share. The stock has traded as high as AUD 20.20 in the last three years. The p...

 Here is the average asset allocation of family offices a couple of years ago according to UBS: It's odd that they count commodities ...

The second Aura Venture Fund finally closed this month and the first capital call was made for 25% of the investment. One of the things I li...

Stock markets fell and the US Dollar rose this month. The Australian Dollar fell from USD 0.7156 to 0.7036. The MSCI World Inde x fell 2.41...

Masterworks sold a Banksy Mona Lisa for $1.5 million after holding it for one year. Investors gain 32% after all fees and costs. I don'...

  In the last couple of years I have used the Corelogic house price indices to update the value of our house. But this price has gotten more...

Stock markets fell and the US Dollar rose this month. The Australian Dollar fell from USD 0.7380 to 0.7156. The MSCI World Index fell 3.19%...

Reading one of ESI Money's millionaire interviews I was inspired to track our income from previous tax returns ( all on this blog ). Wh...

I just completed our tax returns for this year. As usual they only took a few hours as I am very well-prepared with spreadsheets updated thr...

I posted recently the internal rates of return for 66 of my investments. I've now completed the calculations for all 94 investments that...

As my performance statistics over the last 5 years are looking good again, I thought I would start posting them again :) The first two rows ...

I have now computed the internal rate of return for 66 investments including all current investments. I excluded all trading involving futu...

The US stock market continued to rise as the US dollar fell. The Australian Dollar rose from USD 0.7159 to 0.7380. The MSCI World Index ros...

I was just listening to a pod-cast where the host asked the guest ( Karsten Jeske ) what their best investment was and they could give an an...