They save the capital invested in emotionally charged, unfunded projects like yours by liquidating it in time before it depreciates. The tech messiah has struck again. Last Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk decided to play smart and pour fire and brimstone on Twitter at the financial markets regulator in …
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Pension funds have achieved nearly 4.5% profitability in recent years, and the government plans to oblige insurers under the voluntary pillar to provide forecasts for future pensions. Is there light at the end of the tunnel and what kind of pensions will we receive in 5, 10 or 20 years? These are the topics that our editor-in-chief Georgi …
More »Ep. 3: What do we need to know about the main types of investments?
00:50 - What topics will we discuss in this episode? 04:58 - How did the various virtual investments of the EKIP Virtual Pension Fund perform in May? 16:50 - Answers to feedback and questions we received after the previous episode of the podcast 20:00 - What is "compound interest" and how through reinvestment …
More »Ep. 2: What did our Virtual Pension Fund achieve in April?
00:20 - Who are we, what is the purpose of this podcast, what will we talk about in this episode? 07:25 - What is the EKIP Virtual Pension Fund and what return did it achieve in April? 21:30 - Response to feedback and questions we received after the first episode of the podcast. 31:08 - What …
More »Ep. 1: How to save and invest wisely?
Welcome to the pilot episode of our new investment podcast "The Intelligent Investor"! In this episode you will hear: 02:30 - What is the EKIP Virtual Pension Fund, how is it related to our campaign "Pension Reform for the Young" and what is the idea of this podcast? 10:05 - What can …
More »Ep. 9: Are the corruption allegations against Desislava Ivancheva true?
00:45 - The showy arrest of the mayor of "Mladost" Desislava Ivancheva. Is she really guilty? What do we know about her? What did she do as mayor of Mladost and are the numerous accusations of corruption and incompetence true? 23:10 - What could be the consequences for the reputation of the new coalition "Democratic Bulgaria", in ...
More »Why you should read Nassim Taleb's new book
"Skin in the Game," the new book by famed financier-turned-philosopher Nassim Taleb, is the most important book published in recent years (probably since his last book, "Antifragility," which was published in 2012). Taleb is one of the few thinkers throughout human history whose writings...
More »The idea that could make Bitcoin the most popular means of payment
Blockchain technology is considered by many to be revolutionary, but it still has its drawbacks. The first and most popular cryptocurrency, namely Bitcoin, besides being considered revolutionary and eliminating the need for a bank intermediary, is slow and expensive. The drastic price spike in 2017 made it …
More »Gold vs. Silver: Which is more profitable and which is more volatile?
Having examined the global demand profile for gold and silver in the first part of this series comparing gold and silver as investment alternatives, let us now turn our attention to the price dynamics of the two metals. By comparative analysis of trends in the price movements of gold and …
More »Three very good investments in 2018
As a start to the latest column of the EKIP, in which we will present investment comments related to the financial markets, instead of reviewing 2017, I decided to look ahead to 2018. This is actually an old tradition on Wall Street - at the end of each year, large funds and banks present …
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