DEEPSEEK AI
DeepSeek, the Chinese Artificial Intelligence model, shook up the technology market in the United States this weekend. That’s because the AI chatbot was able to overtake ChatGPT in popularity in the Apple App Store. DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company, has launched DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model that rivals OpenAI’s R1 in performance and surpasses it…
Investing 101 – MEMO
In response to recent posts on basic doubts about investing, I decided to create this memo to give a simple and succinct explanation of how to invest. Step Zero: Have a Business or a Job that provides you income. Spend Less that you earn. First step: create an Emergency Fund/Liquidity Reserve. Function: to meet unexpected…
Managing risk in investments
When we talk about investments, in general, we also have to talk about the risk of those investments. In fact, this issue of “risk” is one of the things that most puts people off the world of investments, since, out of total ignorance, people associate “risk” with “losing all your money” and this can be…
What are ETFs?
ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) are very attractive and recurrent in investors’ portfolios, as they combine the diversification characteristics of mutual funds and the ease of trading shares at low costs. In this way, they are an excellent vehicle for small investors to achieve their goal of long-term returns. Currently, there are thousands of ETFs marketed…
What are REITs?
EDUCATION Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) or Real Estate Investment and Management Companies (SIGI) are companies that own, operate or finance income-generating properties. Some of these companies invest directly in property, earning income from rents and management fees. Others invest in property debt, i.e. mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. REITs tend to focus on a specific…
Short Selling: what it is, its impact and ethics
What is short selling? Short selling is an investment strategy that is not very popular with individual investors, but is widely used by financial institutions such as hedge funds and mutual funds. Short selling is done through the following sequence: the investor borrows a share (or any other financial instrument), which is then sold on…
Behavioural Finance: Biases affect your financial decisions
Human biases This deviation from what can be expected of a rational human being is due to errors in our intuition which, in turn, are caused by psychological and emotional biases that all human beings suffer from without exception, and which are the result of people’s natural cognitive limitations (for example, in terms of calculation…
How to Invest Strategically: Building a Diversified “Global” Portfolio
In this article, we will explore the performance of a diversified portfolio, covering the period from January 2018 to August 2023. We chose to start in 2018 for two main reasons. Firstly, we believe that a period of approximately five years offers a suitable medium-term perspective for assessing the effectiveness of an investment strategy. Secondly,…
The Complete Guide for Investing in Crypto Assets.
If you are looking for how to invest in crypto assets you are in thre right place. I tried to prepare a real guideline that will guide you trought the world of crypto assets, investments and technology. The good news is that this is no magic formula, juts method and a good due dilligenge. The…
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