Moomin Valley

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

In November, the Australian Dollar rose from USD 0.6564 to USD 0.6515. Stock indices and other benchmarks performed as follows (total return...

Regal Investment Fund (RF1.AX) is doing a share placement and a share purchase plan (SPP). Under the SPP you can buy up to AUD 30k of shares...

When you get your notice of assessment from the Australian Taxation Office when they have processed your tax return, they send you statement...

  Our bitcoin position is now more valuable than our gold position. 11.5% of net worth is in bitcoin and 10.2% in gold both via ETFs. We als...

Things are starting to feel a bit crazy again . Yesterday, I was thinking: "Maybe this account could reach AUD 500k today!" It has...

In October, the Australian Dollar fell from USD 0.6913 to USD 0.6564, so US Dollar returns are lower than Australian Dollar returns this mon...

I am thinking of setting up a transition to retirement pension (TTR pension). This allows you to receive regular payouts from your superann...

About a year ago, I got scammed for more than $2,000 . I managed to get the money back from the merchant and only had foreign exchange conv...

This was an average month in terms of investing activity. Spending fell steeply again to AUD 7.4k but it is going to be up strongly in Octob...

I also did Moominmama's taxes for this financial year. It only took me about 2 hours to do both as I am very organized :) You can find p...

I did our taxes earlier this year as Aura sent me a tax statement earlier than in previous years. Here is a summary of my taxes. You can fin...

This was a relatively quiet month with little investment activity. I was busy working on my teaching. We spent AUD 6k less than last month t...

The accepted wisdom is that as soon as you retire in Australia and are over 60 years old, or as soon as you hit 65 years old even if you are...

  As the Sydney Morning Herald personal finance newsletter, Real Money , is featuring car expenses this week, I was curious about how much ...

This was a better month, ending with us outperforming all benchmarks apart from the ASX200 and MSCI. Spending hit almost AUD 25k this month,...

I was dissatisfied with my investment return of only 5.69% last year and so decided to eliminate some of my boring funds and take on more...

The company announced the result of its strategic review : They will merge the listed investment company PMC.AX and their ETF PIXX.AX. The p...

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

Recently, what used to be the First Sentier Developing Companies Fund became the Longwave Small Australian Companies Fund. In other words, F...

The Australian reports on the performance of superannuation funds for the just completed financial year. This year, retail funds tended to ...

For the last seven years I've been putting together reports on our spending over the Australian financial year, which runs from 1 July t...

In January, I posted about how much of investment returns were being taken up to cover the effects of inflation . I fitted a quadratic curve...

Coinsnacks issues a negative article on Defi Technologies . The stock fell 25-30% in Tuesday trading as a result. The article is very select...

Crazy to see an investment up by more in a day than any of my investments have been up in a month before in terms of dollars.... So far it i...

The L1 Long-Short Fund (LSF.AX) is a closed end hedge fund listed on the ASX. It has had a very strong performance, beating the ASX 200 by...

Regal Partners (RPL.AX) – the listed management company of Regal Funds – has increased rapidly in price recently: I have doubled the size of...

Take all the bitcoin in the world and divide by the number of people - how much is an equal share? About 0.0025. Similarly, an equal share o...

Cambria Funds have launched a new managed futures ETF – MFUT – managed by Chesapeake - Jerry Parker's (one of the turtle traders ) fir...

The news is pushing the price up strongly again today, though they won't start buying till next week.

In May, the Australian Dollar rose from USD 0.6494 to USD 0.6650 so US Dollar returns are much stronger than Australian Dollar returns this ...