This article is an update of my personal portfolio at the end of 1H2025 (June 30, 2025). To say it was a volatile quarter is the mother of all understatements. Fortunately, I came out OK thanks to the fact that investors – especially in the bond market – provided guardrails for the nutty economic policies of Mr Trump. I saw the train wreck coming, but I failed to anticipate the shockingly fast recovery. You can read the gory details in this article.

The first quarter was actually quite decent for me, although the start to April has been horrible since there is nowhere to hide.

Down we go in a self-inflicted mess caused by Mr Trump's errant tariff policy. I talk about trade and budget deficits, and the week ahead.

This article contains an update of my 2024 portfolio performance. My returns were decent but not as good as they should have been.

This is a guest post about gold, penned by online investment firm BullionVault. Gold has just pierced $2,100/oz, reaching a record high.

I wrote about portfolio allocation pre-retirement a few weeks ago. This article is about “sizing” your drawdowns after you retire.

The 3Q23 was not good for stocks and bonds, reflected in the returns in my own portfolio. But returns YtD have been decent enough.

This article is an update to an article I penned in February regarding my personal portfolio. For me, it's painful reading!

Stocks do not always go up over shorter periods, but they do over longer periods. This article provides empirical support, see for yourself