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Selling our short index funds…

Well – after some waiting on the fence and also stocking up with aggressive short index funds, we are pulling back as the downturn did not came as hard as we have expected several weeks ago…

Going short?

Hello all, With the recent uprise in Egypt, we have seen new highs of the VIX and increased nervousness in the global markets… We of course cannot forsee into the future but we felt like it would be worthwhile to protect our portfolio with a small amount of short compound ETFs…. Please note that we [...]

Safe Investments for 2011

As we have written in our previous post, we are still preparing for a pull back of 10 – 15% from market highs. This pull back is somewhat in delay, but we are quite certain that it will come eventually.

Preparing for a pull back…

Hi all, After a long period of non-stop rise in the stock market we are planning for a pull back of around 10%. Usually our strategy is “buy and hold” but this time we are going to ride the wave and try maxing out the best of the coming bear market. Note that the overall [...]

Safe investment guidelines – Jan 2011

We wanted to start and document our investment guidelines starting from this month onwards. Please recall that we are dealing with safe investments so the proportions and specific asset allocation might be more aggressive for certain investors.
As the recommended portfolio includes 35% stocks (mostly via ETFs / aggressive mutual funds with low management fees) and the rest is invested in high yield bonds, directly or via dedicated mutual funds, which ensure proper diversification, and a safety “cushion” in case one of more companies will go to default.

What is the safest investment tool in today’s market conditions?

Hi all, as you are all aware, we are in an interesting situation where the interest rates are quite low, the yield on TIPS and other bonds is not attractive (in some cases you will lose money if you will wait till the final redemption of the bonds – meaning negative yield …) and the [...]