Bitcoin: (1) Mainstream Financial Instrument or (2) Fool’s Gold?
Bitcoin continues to divide opinion across the financial world, with financial institutions like Charles Schwab embracing its potential while well-known news outlets such as the Financial Times (FT) warn of dangerous excesses. Together, these perspectives illustrate the tension between optimism about digital assets and scepticism about their sustainability. Schwab’s Optimistic View: Bitcoin as Mainstream Finance […]
⚡Bad Bitcoin is the better Market’s Mood Ring
When bitcoin sneezes, the stock market catches a cold. Recent plunges in the crypto giant have consistently foreshadowed sell-offs in global equities. Since early October, bitcoin has shed nearly a third of its value, tumbling to around $84,000. Once dismissed as a speculative toy, it’s now being treated by mainstream investors as a real-time barometer […]
The Winners of 2024 Portfolio (and Why You Need ETFs)
ETFs, as long as they are low-cost and well-diversified, are a great way to build your smart investment portfolio. 2024, like many years before, showed that you need to spread your eggs over many baskets and that individual stocks can be a minefield. Diversification in investing is a strategy that involves spreading your investments across […]
Hong Kong ETFs – 25 years
Hong Kong Exchange is expanding its ETF offering fast. This is good news for investors based there: lower costs & better returns.
Investing Behaviour – How to Stay Sane
Explains group behaviour and herd instinct in stock markets
Fads: AI – Navigating the Hype
Nvidia is the most frequently mentioned stock now. Everyone talks about AI, and Nvidia is the beneficiary. But we need to be careful with hype or fads—it is better to be well-diversified and not overestimate the fashion of the day. Not surprisingly, also for AI, the first canary in the coal mine1 has arrived. 1. […]
Keep Calm and Tame Your Brain
This article is about staying sane and always having a choice in how you react. A happy life means keeping calm and managing (taming) your brain!