Investment Strategies
How to combine funds into a portfolio that survives real life. This archive holds the allocation models — one-fund, three-fund, 60/40, core-satellite, couch potato — and the strategy guides for dividend income, factor tilts, rebalancing discipline and currency risk. The dividend shelf covers the funds and the mechanics: yield versus growth, withholding tax on distributions, and building an income stream from UCITS ETFs. The FIRE shelf runs from Coast FIRE viability by country to sequence-of-returns risk and European alternatives to the 4% rule. And because behaviour costs investors more than fees, the behavioural guides — panic-selling, recency bias, analysis paralysis — sit here too. Every strategy is expressed in UCITS funds a European can actually hold, with the tax angle referenced country by country.
How to combine factor ETFs without doubling up on the same stocks (2026)
How to combine factor ETFs without doubling up on the same stocks (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.
Equal-weight vs market-cap-weighted ETFs: the European case (2026)
Equal-weight vs market-cap-weighted ETFs: the European case (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.
Quality-factor ETFs: why profitability beats a low P/E (2026)
Quality-factor ETFs: why profitability beats a low P/E (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.
Factor investing for European UCITS portfolios: value, momentum, quality and low-vol (2026)
Factor investing for European UCITS portfolios: value, momentum, quality and low-vol (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.
UCITS ETF vs individual dividend stocks: when each wins (2026)
UCITS ETF vs individual dividend stocks: when each wins (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.
The European couch-potato portfolio (set-and-forget) (2026)
The European couch-potato portfolio (set-and-forget) (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.
The three-fund portfolio for European investors (after Bogleheads) (2026)
The three-fund portfolio for European investors (after Bogleheads) (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.
The 60/40 portfolio: EU UCITS edition (2026)
The 60/40 portfolio: EU UCITS edition (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.
Currency overlay strategies for EU equity-heavy portfolios (2026)
Currency overlay strategies for EU equity-heavy portfolios (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.
USD exposure for European investors: when it helps, when it hurts (2026)
USD exposure for European investors: when it helps, when it hurts (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.