About

Who
I won’t get into issues with personal identity here, but it’s really quite simple. I think it is better if I remain anonymous, kind of like how The Economist works. People can’t have a biased opinion of me until they read me, and even then, they’ll always be questioning themselves. Besides, I might have that mysterious appeal of the likes of The Fake Steve Jobs. But if you really want to know, maybe I’ll let loose that I am between the age of a child prodigy and Charlie Munger, a Chief Portfolio Managing Partner, at an independent private firm, and have helped manage billions of 2008USDs in AUM.

The intended audience is anyone seeking to further themselves or others through free investor education of the philosophy of finance.

What
A weekly web log (blog) with timeless posts on my passions of Finance, Philosophy, and other (hopefully related) things, thus Finansophy, love of financial wisdom.

Where-When in Space-time
Somewhere on the internet in the Multiverse, I’ve been thinking about making my own website for a long time, but only in 2008 CE did I finally crack and have the time and drive to finally start it up. My plan is to update weekly for now, but if I can make enough time to post daily or on the whim, that would be great too.

Why
Often people ask why Finance and Philosophy. I ask, “Why not?” There are all these people getting their Ph.D.’s in Finance and they never tell people that they are a Doctor of Philosophy of Finance (talk about fusion of the “top tier” jobs: medicine, law, and business)! In addition, the world is increasingly becoming more interdisciplinary with many different areas affecting other ones. I fundamentally believe that free lunches are good. Perhaps “there ain’t no such thing as a [real] free lunch” with opportunity costs, but that doesn’t mean there ain’t no such thing as a really cheap lunch or a positive NPV lunch. Free knowledge betters society by constantly pushing the boundaries of our beliefs, desires, or values. It can potentially have a huge impact on your own life in the future, giving you great return on investment.

How
Either free will or the grand unified theory of the cosmos. One of the fundamental tools of Philosophy has been dialectic, so I invite you all to comment on posts and argue (constructively and logically) so that maybe we can together find the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, and if we are really lucky, what it means.

With free and open source software, which WordPress runs on, people can continually improve the technology for knowledge accretion and dilution.

Full Disclosure Legalese Disclaimer
To have full disclosure, I am stating now that I at least partially own securities in any business I may talk about in the future because I may or may not own a small slice of the global market with the following ETFs and/or others:

CWI, VEU
VTI, KLD
VWO
BND, BWX
FFR, RWX, IFGL, DRW, VNQ
PSP, PFP
GII, MFD, IGF
TYG, FMO, SRV, MTP, KYN, BSR
DBA, DBC, MOO, GSG, DJP, JJA

This is not to say that I don’t own smaller or larger allocations in individual businesses, mutual funds , separately managed accounts, hedge funds, structured products, real estate, private equity, etcetera. I will also try to be as objective and independent as possible when talking business. Although I seek to be like Robin Hood and give away wisdom - with nominal opportunity costs - the content of this blog is the opinion of me and other sources regarded as reliable; I make no guarantees that anything happens and I am thus not liable for any losses or ridiculous gains you may make. I will try to not talk about anything that I have a significant financial interest in (greater than 5% of my or client’s portfolio), to avoid any conflicts of interest.

Thank you and stay tuned for more adventures of “THE FINANSOPHER!”

Th-th-th-that’s all folks!

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