Some interesting financial and investing posts I ran across this week, plus a few decent articles from the newspapers.
I have been run off my feet recently, and unfortunately my $1 $2-a-day blogging habit has suffered as a result.
Unfortunate for me, I mean, because I love writing this blog.
(I know a few of you do enjoy regular updates, as you’ve been kind enough to tell me so via email. And we’re now up to 300 subscribers!)
But I do need to find a way to make blogging less time-consuming or, preferably, better paid, as the 10-20 hours a week I spend on Monevator is becoming unsustainable.
Some friends urge me to get more personal and to write shorter, more hands-on posts, with a weekly longer one to provide some meat. I may well explore this route in future, although I hope it doesn’t put off you loyal readers and subscribers!
For now though, I’m not going to finish a commercial property post I’ve been writing in time for tomorrow, so it’s going to have to wait until next week.
Instead here’s a few existing Monevator posts that even regulars might not have noticed before:
- Do you run a tight ship, or are you just a tightwad?
- Seven reasons why you should NOT start your own business
- Who is your Star Wars money hero?
- How Andy Warhol caused the property boom and bust
- Earn more money by learning from recent immigrants.
I hope you find something to enjoy, and do come back next week!
Some interesting financial and investing posts I ran across this week, plus a few decent articles from the newspapers.
I read a good article recently on how to construct an Ivy League fund using exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
The original article was for American investors. Here’s how British readers can do the same thing.
But why would you want an Ivy League style fund?
Well, the endowment funds of Ivy League universities like Yale and Harvard have historically achieved excellent returns, with less volatility than an index tracker.
Their success is partly because of special opportunities we can’t easily replicate, such as access to good hedge funds.
But they’ve also done well because of asset allocation, which we can copy with ETFs.