By Natasha

If you asked my closest friends and colleagues for one word to describe me, the resounding answer is energy. Non-stop Natasha, as my mother would say, imploring me to slow down.
 
For years, this seemingly boundless capacity has supported my maximum life – until last year, when I couldn’t keep up with myself. We live in times where the mantra is more, bigger, faster. Relentless urgency, endless distractions and obsessive connectivity are taking a toll. We are the burnout generation.

By Julia

While I am at home these days, I got to catch up on some side topics such as taking care of my financial assets, and I have to admit I was prohibitively careless with it, especially during this crisis. Hence, I’ve been reading up on this topic a lot and would like to share my insights on the question of how to build up a long-term investment portfolio and make it crisis proof.

So moving along the logic of connection, I believe there are four types of how two people connect.

I don’t know if the below framework can help us connect better –I wished it would– but of course it is just an ex-post summary of my empirical studies on guys - keep that in mind :)

Yes, it is a 2x2 matrix, definitely not meant to be exhaustive, but fun anyways. I’d be curious, if you can relate to those quadrants (or whether in reality we should be looking at a 3x3 matrix).

The four connection quadrants

Chemistry, same wavelength, attraction…

There are many ways to describe this elusive and hard-to-pinpoint force between two people and it is even harder to find a magic formula to predict when two people will actually be hit by it.

In my opinion, there are two elements that make us connect with someone

For being more productive in our every day, we use tools and hacks to structure, manage and get order into our lives. Here are some that I use day to day or cannot live without and I would love to hear about yours, as I am always open to discover new tools. :)

ETFs are exchange traded funds and serve as a good basis for any investment portfolio.

What they are exactly and how to buy them, you can find a lot of resources online. This resource is good and this one.

I think the harder part is to figure out what exactly to buy and when to buy.

Timing
From a long-term investor mentality stand point, any point in time is a good time to buy, if you believe that overall economies are growing.

In particular, ETFs replicate an underlying market index such as the DAX or Dow Jones - meaning the ETF fund manager buys the stocks in such amounts that the fund has the same weight and performance as the underlying market/economy.