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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.

Best Performing ETFs: Why the Question Ruins Portfolios (and What to Ask Instead)

Xtrackers Portfolio UCITS ETF Review: The Managed Allocation in One Line

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Main Street Capital Dividende: The Monthly-Payer Cult, Explained for Europeans

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WisdomTree Dividend ETFs Review: The Growth Screen and the Frontier Screen

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Vanguard Dividend Appreciation (VIG) for Europeans: The Wall and the Better Doors

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Amundi Stoxx Europe Select Dividend 30 UCITS ETF Review: The Continent’s Yield Screen, Priced Right

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YieldMax Big Tech Option Income UCITS ETF (YMAG) Review: The Extreme End of the Income Shelf

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Franklin Quality Dividend ETFs Review: The 0.25% Challenge to the Whole Income Shelf

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iShares Asia Pacific Dividend UCITS ETF (IAPD) Review: The Yield Screen Goes East

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Best Dividend ETFs in Europe: The Full Comparison, Screen by Screen

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Monthly Dividend ETFs in Europe: The Honest Top 10 (and the Ladder That Beats Most of Them)

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Cat Bond ETFs in Europe: The First Fund, the 8-10% Yields, and What You’re Actually Insuring

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Fidelity Global Quality Income UCITS ETF (FGEQ) Review: The Middle Path of Income

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Invesco EURO STOXX High Dividend Low Volatility UCITS ETF (EUHD) Review: Income With a Seatbelt

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iShares EM Dividend UCITS ETF (SEDY) Review: High Yield from the Hard Places

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DWS Top Dividende Review: Should You Keep Germany’s Favourite Dividend Fund — or Switch to ETFs?

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L&G Global Quality Dividends UCITS ETF Review: The 0.29% Challenger Shaking the Income Shelf

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Global X SuperDividend UCITS ETF (SDIV) Review: Monthly Income at the Edge of the Map

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iShares STOXX Global Select Dividend 100 UCITS ETF (ISPA) Review: The Yield-First Veteran

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VanEck Morningstar Developed Markets Dividend Leaders UCITS ETF (TDIV) Review

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The European couch-potato portfolio (set-and-forget) (2026)

The European couch-potato portfolio (set-and-forget) (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.

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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.

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The 60/40 portfolio: EU UCITS edition (2026)

The 60/40 portfolio: EU UCITS edition (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.

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Currency overlay strategies for EU equity-heavy portfolios (2026)

Currency overlay strategies for EU equity-heavy portfolios (2026) – practical guide by Kestutis Balciunas.

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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.

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