Archive for April, 2009

Primelocation and house prices trend in London

You wouldn’t believe this.
Apparently, the whole world real estate is going belly up, with the exception of -guess?- London!
This accordingly to www.primelocation.com. If one had to believe their survey, in these troubled -t0 say the least- times, when US real estate is down 20% YoY -and this is for the lucky cities!-, London had a [...]

Asset Allocation

Just in case you wondered… This is my current asset allocation (excluding real estate and debt) in this current troubled times:
Cash or equivalent:            90%
Equity (EM):                     7%
Gold:                               3%
Currency-wise:
USD:                                 50%
Euro:                                 34%
UK Pound:                         16%
I am thining to add on Gold, but definitely not US equity - if anything, I would short them.

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Wordpress 2.7

Just upgraded to Wordpress 2.7. I know, it has probably been out there for quite a while, but I haven’t been out there for a while so…
It was definitely the first thing to do before start blogging again, and I have to say it is quite cool. I like to control panel, and the overall  [...]

I am back

ok, I do have to really apologize for the long silence to whoever (anybody out there?) has been following my blog, but a few things happened in my life that kept me extremely busy during the last months. Also, it’s fair to add a bit of laziness (and sleep deprivation) to the list below:
1- Two [...]