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Stock Price and Market Model

Good morning RIPvestors, welcome to another post in the investing series, where I gradually introduce you to the world of investments and go deep on topics I have some experience with, mainly related to investments in Switzerland. Other posts in the Investing series: Investing basics Financial Investing Funds Investing Fees & Taxes

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Eleven Gems on the Net #2

Hi readers, Welcome back to another episode of eleven gems on the net, where i share few interesting links I’ve found on the web. More information about the series can be found in the first post. There’s not a common theme among these links, which is “work as intended”. I’m

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Fees and Taxes

Good morning RIPvestors, welcome to another post in the investing series, where I gradually introduce you to the world of investments and go deep on topics I have some experience with, mainly related to investments in Switzerland. Other posts in the Investing series: Investing basics Financial Investing Funds Investing Fees & Taxes

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NW Spreadsheet improved – plus a taste of my current investment strategy

Hello friends, I’ve updated my NW spreadsheet to include a NW tracker (historical too) and my real time portfolio allocation strategy and monitoring. You’re obviously free to copy it out and personalize, or simply copy features and formulas you like. Let’s take a look at each feature: NW Tracking This sheet tracks NW month

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Eleven gems on the net #1

I’m an avid reader of books, follower of dozens of blogs, consumer of hours of youtube videos. I love being hit by waves of information on the topics I care or I’m curious about. I don’t follow the news or the politics too much, topics where people tend to get very

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Funds Investing

Good morning RIPvestors, welcome to another post in the investing series, where I gradually introduce you to the world of investments and go deep on topics I have some experience with, mainly related to investments in Switzerland. Other posts in the Investing series: Investing basics Financial Investing Funds Investing Fees & Taxes

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Financial Investments

Hi dear RIPvestors, I started writing a post about investments last week, a post where I wanted to cover all aspects of investments. As soon as I wrote down the first draft I realized that no, I couldn’t have done all in a single post. So I decided to cut down the

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August 2016 Financial Update – “how to save more than 80% of your take home pay” edition

Hi all, August 2016 is gone. Amazing weather and a lot of fun here in Switzerland! As end-of-month routine I’m here showing my numbers! Off topic: I’m getting lost in a very long post about investments that probably will have to be split in several smaller posts. I’m glad it’s end of

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Cycles

Hi RIPologists, Today I’m blogging about my ideal life cycles (the freedom series). Our lives are doomed by cycles: the daily routines, the workweek, the monthly paycheck, the yearly performance review, the summer vacation and so on. Most of today’s cycles are are driven from outside forces like the Sun (days, years), the Moon (months),

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Earthquake

This night an Earthquake 6.2 Richter happened close to Rome, close to where my family lives. My relatives are ok, but there’s going to be several dozens, maybe few hundreds of casualties (EDIT: 24h later casualties are 247 and counting…). Plus, amazing places – like Amatrice, famous for pasta all’Amatriciana – are almost completely

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