Moomin Valley

So I wore this shirt to lunch with a couple of friends today: After the first friend left, I was saying how I hated buying clothes (because ...

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

The Australian r eports on the best performing super funds for 2024 . They focus on lifecycle, balanced, and sustainable options. I am sure ...

We are still waiting for the Aura venture funds to report, but I am guessing their values will be unchanged. So, now we can compute reasonab...

Intramonth, I've blasted through the transfer balance cap. This is the limit of AUD 1.9 million that you can transfer from an Australian...

I bought my existing phone, a Google Pixel 3a, just before the pandemic in early 2020. The battery has less and less life, it only has 64GB ...

A year ago, we reconfigured Big Moomin's portfolio, which is managed by my brother, to provide better investment returns. This really p...

The numbers in this report may change a little once all data on private investments becomes available. I will write an annual report after a...

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...