Articles on investing, personal finance
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Investing

• After two crashes in fifteen years, is the stock market cheap yet?
• Find out your market pain threshold
• How much equity over a certain investment horizon?
• The stock market correction of August 2015
• Investing is like dieting
• When does the long term start?
• Investing: yesterday, today and tomorrow
• Investing in four words: compounded, real, net, return
• How compounding really makes money
• Trying to gain rather than avoiding to lose
• What is risk? Long term vs. short term
• Stocks may bark, but it is bonds that bite
• Even a conservative investment should have stocks
• Would you rather have to save €25 000 or €85 000 to prepare for retirement?
• Do you save for your retirement or that of a banker?
• Nobody's (forced to be) perfect
• Ready-to-invest, or The illusion of personal financial advice
• Who's afraid of the 1929–1932 market crash?
• Reading performance charts
• Investing: Is investing the same as saving? [pdf]
• Four misconceptions on risk [pdf]
• Should you invest in Lilliput's actively managed funds?
• Cost matters [pdf]
• Investing: Mutual funds [pdf]
• Turning a risk into a cost
• Bond + age = financial bondage

Quantitative asset allocation and portfolio optimization

• Risk and return [pdf]
• Time matters [pdf]
• Drawing an income [pdf]
• For the short term [pdf]
• Choosing an investment portfolio needs not be guesswork
• Investing: Regular investments [pdf]
• Investing by numbers

Real estate

• British property market [pdf]
• Mortgage loans [pdf]

© Mathieu Bouville, May 2017