Current crop of 65-70-year olds has been able to retire on 70-80% of salary and have enjoyed at least 5x real house price increase. House bought with no money down so that is infinite return on investment. There is limitations on taking out pension outside of europe I think. And Spain/Portugal that...

Thanks for sharing your portfolio, amounts and wealth strategy Europeanwizard. I'm also a European investor trying to build up my EU-PP. To be sincere, after almost one year I'm kind of disappointed with its performance, here's my distribution: Asset - % of weight - Name - Code Shares - 24,69% - Van...

Hello. Some months ago I started my EU-PP placing on it almost 50% of my economic wealth. At the same time, I have almost reached my thirtysomething and considering the stability in professional space and personal life, I have decided to take roots and buy a house. Let's say that the total cost of t...

I'm also a young European running a EU PP. First of all I would recommend you to implement your portfolio using funds insted of ETFs. It is true that speaking about gold is not easy to go the hardcore way -buying coins, storing them, securing them and so on, so using Xetra Gold is the best approach....

Btw, I don't know what happened to the German Bond 2046. My google sheet stoped showing info from it and it seems that Frankufrt Boerse link does not work anymore: http://en.boerse-frankfurt.de/bonds/BundesrepDeutschlandAnlv2014_2046-Bond-2046-DE0001102341 Seems to work in Boerse Berlin. The trend i...

It would be nice to check how all the EU PP commented here performed during these years -hoping that users still read this forum. For those -like me, who have recently started a European PP it's important to get some insights about PP dealing with the uncertainty of these past years.

Regards.

I have just started myself a European PP. After a whole month reading opinions, taking notes, doing backtesting... I sticked to the basics: Bundesrepublik Bond 2046 (DE0001102341). However, I decided to introduce another Bond Asset using Vanguard's 20+ YEAR EU fund (IE00B246KL88). I just made 60%-40...