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While helping a relative prepare for a property sale in the canton of Zurich, I noticed that there wasn’t a free property gains tax calculator available online. After looking at the calculation, it seemed straightforward enough, so I made this calcul...
A colleague at work once showed a website called Novel Investor which greatly shows market performances. Ever since, I've frequently visited this site when reviewing my portfolio allocation. To keep things simple, I invest only in mutual funds or ETF...
Coming towards the end of the year, one way to lower your upcoming tax bill is to make voluntary purchases into your pension accounts. These are the pension pillars where you can make such purchases: Pillar 2 This is the mandatory pension account set...
Investing in ETFs is an effortless way to achieve a high degree of diversification. Most ETFs are passively-managed and follow a certain index, meaning that they aim to achieve the same performance as that index. Therefore, it's not uncommon to choos...
In the process of a property purchase, the topic of amortization will come up sooner or later. This jargony term basically means the process of repaying a mortgage debt. But to understand this, it would help to look at how a mortgage is usually struc...
If you have a 3A account, you might be familiar with the concept of staggered payouts. This is where 3A accounts are liquidated one-by-one each year starting with the fifth year prior to retirement. Since assets from liquidated 3A accounts are counte...