Moomin Valley

I now have a meeting lined up with my boss and discussed the whole thing with a colleague who took a similar package in 2020. He said that t...

VSS stands for "Voluntary Separation Scheme". The details were announced this afternoon. There are three weeks to apply for it fro...

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 (...

So my employer announced a couple of days ago in the weekly newsletter that there will be a voluntary redundancy scheme. The details won...

We usually classify the first of these investments as a hedge fund and the rest as stock investments, but here we can bundle them together a...

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...

We each have an employer superannuation fund. Moominpapa has Unisuper (Sustainable Balanced Option) and Moominmama PSS(AP) (Balanced). Each ...

We have six unprofitable investments: Tribeca Global Resources Fund (TGF.AX) Unpopular Ventures Aura VF2 Dash Technologies/IPS Domacom (DCL....

I have been closing some investments that I wasn't happy with, but it's several years since I systematically reviewed my investment...

In January, the Australian Dollar rose slightly from USD 0.6196 to USD 0.6237 meaning that USD investment returns are a little better than A...

This post breaks down the investment returns for 2024 at a very granular level. Other costs and benefits like interest and fees and exchange...

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...