"The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own." – Warren Buffett
In the time of covid-19, paying in cash definitely seems like an anachronism. This is an investing post, however, and I’m not writing about buying items with paper money. Rather, I’m thinking about companies that do not pay their execs and boards by issuing stock.
This is probably even more rare than cash payments during covid. It could also be a telling signal about the culture of a company and its people.
ContinueTime for a quick update on the “Fun Fund” for the first quarter of 2020. As a reminder, this is just a Roth IRA where I am planning to track my active investments/performance. As you may be able to infer from the title of this post, this quarter could have gone better.
Schadenfreude?Wow, it feels like a lot has happened in the two weeks since my last post. The markets have sold off almost another (20%) after the ~(8%) decline in February. In this post I will briefly chronicle how I am thinking about reacting to the corona pandemic and the impact it is having on financial markets and the economy. I also found a new fantastic investing resource that I wanted to share, so you will have the chance to use it during this period of challenge (and opportunity).
Continue reading “Buying the BBB and a New Toy for Me”As I recently shared, I sold my Brixmor (BRIX) position. In this post, I am going to discuss what I am doing with some of the proceeds.
Continue reading “I Hit the BRIX. Now What?”In my most recent post, I updated my end of 2019 savings/investments tracking journal. In this post, I’m going to take a crack at estimating my total net worth.
Continue reading “State of the Stash – 2019 Year End Total Net Worth”
Happy New Year! It is time for my personal finance journal update. I am just going to update savings/invested assets in this post and will work on another post updating total net worth and doing an annual review over the next several days. It takes a little bit longer to estimate my total net worth as I’ve got some real estate and deferred compensation to value.
Read MoreI wanted to publish a quick post to serve as both a portfolio update and State of the Stash update for the month of November. TLDR version: I sold out of a position and spent a ton of $$$ on one of our dogs (totally worth it).
Continue reading “Time to Hit the Brix?”It is time for my monthly personal finance journal update. October was pretty exciting. I increased my savings over the last month due to a bit of a small income windfall. I also had some help from Mr. Market. I am getting close to a pretty big milestone.
Read MoreIt is time, yet again, for the monthly airing of my private financial laundry. June was all about rally mode!
Continue reading “State of the Stash – June”This will be a quick portfolio update/investing log post updating my thoughts on my Avon position given last week’s announcement that Natura & Co. will acquire Avon.
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