Eight months down, all contributions made, but not as intended… As mentioned last month, I was looking at including the FTSE Emerging Markets Index into the portfolio. Quite fortuitously, I didn’t. As I’d previously been bemoaning that my unintentional “accept the market price”, buy when you have the money strategy, seemed to top tick every […]
First published 25 March 2021 for Mancell Financial Group “el hombre perezoso hace el doble de trabajo.” You might say this Spanish proverb is about the discouragement of a certain behaviour. In almost every facet of life we are encouraged to give our best and work our hardest. It’s something we see taught in school. […]
First published 18 March 2021 for Mancell Financial Group You’re out walking with your dog near a railway track. Behind you there’s a rumbling noise. Thundering down the track is a trolley, looking up ahead you can see the trolley is headed for a bridge with five workers on it. They will either be run […]
Eight months down, all contributions made as intended. As noted a few months back, the time you have the opportunity to buy plays a large determinant in your returns month to month. In the first ten days of February, global small companies moved up 6.7%. Guess when I had the opportunity to make my buy […]
First published 4 March 2021 for Mancell Financial Group In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis a shift occurred in how some older people lived their lives across the USA. For the most part it wasn’t a choice. It was forced. As home prices fell while jobs and savings evaporated, holding onto a house […]
First published 27 February 2021 for Mancell Financial Group Feet. They have been washing up on the coast of the Pacific Northwest of North America intermittently since 2007. The foot, due to the weakness of the ankle, is the body part most likely to detach during decomposition. When said foot is inside a running shoe, […]
First published 18 February 2021 for Mancell Financial Group It was a party at the house of a hedge fund manager in the wealthy New York enclave of Shelter Island. In attendance were the famed writers, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller. Long-time friends, Vonnegut turned to Heller and informed him that their billionaire host had […]
First published 11 February 2021 for Mancell Financial Group A great relationship, a newborn son, and a successful career as an actor. In 2008, Matthew McConaughey was feeling pretty good about his life in California. Then an unexpected family health emergency took him back to his home state of Texas. Of all places, McConaughey and […]
Seven months down, all contributions made as intended. However, month seven brought another round of quarterly distributions. This prompted the question of what to do with those distributions. They would be reinvested, but how? I don’t believe I’ve touched on what to do about rebalancing. The lowest impact option in this case I think is […]
First published 27 January 2021 for Mancell Financial Group Social media has been blamed for being the cause of many ills over the past decade. The ability to analyse our behaviour and micro target us with advertising may become the biggest ill of all. Being able to blatantly tell lies and distort the truth to […]
