Practical approach to sustainable wealth
Summer vacation for AVI family this year was unsurprisingly rather different. To avoid crowds and popular tourist destinations, AVI family decided to go camping instead. To further minimize contact, we thought it was a smart idea to avoid a weekend getaway. Mr AVI took advantage of one of the few perks of a salaried man, […]
Recently I came across an interesting video from Mark Cuban, the billionaire famous for his gig on ABC’s hit series Shark Tank and for being the owner of NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. The video is titled “How you get rich (In 9 steps)“. While the title of the video is tongue-in-cheek, the advise that Mark gives […]
We are still in the first week of June and I thought may be its not too late to do a short post on NW updates for month of May using numbers from last updates in my excel log. Without further ado, the key numbers for the month-past (from April 25th through June 3rd) are: […]
Arbitrage is a fancy way of saying there is (risk free) money to be had by exploiting certain opportunities, for example, the act of buying and selling stocks in different markets to take advantage of different pricing for the same asset in different markets. When the arbitrage is applied to geography, we get Geoarbitrage. Geoarbitrage […]
On to the numbers for April 2020! After a disastrous March, AVI family NW has improved, much in line with the rise in markets. The NW is now back to levels we reached in Oct of 2019. The key numbers are: Net Worth (as fraction of FI number): 57.47 Liquid Assets/ Debt Ratio: 1.337 Cash […]
Its been more than a month since work from home policy was put in place by my employer. Its also almost month to the date since schools in our neighborhood have been closed. Enough of a time has now passed for me to assess the pros and cons of how I and AVI family are […]
Its the time of the month when I provide an update on AVI family net worth. I began compiling data for this post with some trepedition. As most of my readers know, I am heavily invested in stocks and the events of past one month were, to put it mildly, devastating for my portfolio. The […]
This past weekend, Avi Family was invited to a Valentine-day party in our neighborhood. Folks at the party were the usual gang of local Indian families from our small town in the suburbs of Seattle. The hosts put together a fun event, especially the balloon-dance, where by couples hold an inflated ballon in between them […]
In about 7 days we will usher in a new decade. The decade of teens, will soon be bygone, a decade of American prosperity in which markets (S&P 500) returned 250 % on the upside, never once dipping more than 20 % from the peak. Assuming nothing goes wrong in the last few days that […]
This weeks post again got delayed. This time my excuse, work-travel! I am attending the annual NeurIPS (NIPS as it was called in the old days) conference in beautiful Vancouver (see image below). It is hard to fathom how fast and how much this conference has grown.. from a measley 200 people back in the […]
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