by SC | May 24, 2021
This weekend the annual Eurovision contest took place, with one singer/group from various European (in a broad sense) countries competing. Italy won, followed by France and then Switzerland third. For those who don’t follow it (and I have to admin this was the...
by SC | May 17, 2021
The cryptocurrency market trajectory is sometimes compared to the Dutch Tulip Mania. While fact-checking the speculative bubble of the 17th century, I realised that in 2007 a book was published by an American historian, Anne Goldgar, attempting to somewhat revise the...
by SC | May 17, 2021
For a while I have been intrigued by the prominent money-losing (in terms of earnings) IPOs in the last few years, from cannabis stocks to cloud and big data, that have been welcomed by such high levels of interest. Why are money-losing businesses so attractive? Well,...
by SC | May 10, 2021
The Ethereum blockchain is planning to move from a so-called proof-of-work validation approach, to a proof-of-stake, where validators put their cryptocurrency at stake instead of mining to validate a block. Crypto exchanges offer programs where you can earn rewards...
by SC | May 10, 2021
We want to invest sustainably, we want to show we are good people. Buying a sustainable fund is a great way to show that we are good people, isn›t it? Let us have a look at 3 alternatives (one ETF and two funds) for the Swiss market. I am not recommending anything...
by SC | May 10, 2021
Roughly 15 years ago I was still a student and was sitting in the audience of a broker presentation on oil stocks, a hot topic at the time. When the Q&A time arrived, I asked the analyst there what he thought about Peak Oil theory. At the time, it was spreading...
