I went out to meet a friend for dinner a few weeks ago. Halfway through the dinner, my friend asked me a question regarding ...

In October this year, I decided to make a solo trip to Bangkok. I actually had a plan last year to make a trip last year. I ...

I came across this article which explains that the best performing income ETFs of 2025 happens to be convertible bond ...

I spent the week coding some personal project. I think I am at a certain age where if I am doing something harder that requires me to think, then I am left with less bandwidth to think about other ...

Every commentator likes to make going into each Federal Reserve meeting that it is the most important meeting, yet if we see ...

Out of the 164 UCITS iShares funds that I profiled a few days ago, the iShares EM Dividend UCITS ETF (SEDY) caught my attention. This is an emerging markets fund that was incepted in November 2011.

SMID stands for small and medium. In this case the SMID developers have outperformed large cap developers by 4 points in 3rd quarter 2025. This year developers have done well, and that is compared to ...

Carl Kaufman came on Excess Return podcast to talk about fixed income. Carl is the co-CEO, CIO of a fixed income fund of Osterweis Capital Management. Whenever you look at some of these notes, do bear ...

I wrote the part 1 of my notes about my long term care planning in March this year (2025). You can read it here. Can I Self-Insure My Future Long-Term Care Needs with My Current Financial Assets? – ...

I got this question in my Telegram chat. I know this person who is asking me is not exposed in any way so he is just getting a sense of what I think about it. But in a way, I been getting weird vibes ...

I wanted to do a colonoscopy about two years ago. There are a couple of reasons. I was 43-years-old back then. Not very young but also not very old and I thought it is high time to get the internals ...