Stoffel Wealth

Building Wealth, One Step At A Time

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StoffelWealth.com is a personal blog focused on retail investing and financial literacy, offering practical insights on how to build wealth – one step at a time.

This blog is for retail investors, curious parents raising money-smart kids, and anyone on the path to building meaningful, long-term wealth.

At StoffelWealth, I share honest, experience-based insights. No hype. No shortcuts. Just the real work of showing up, learning, and staying in the game.

Here’s what you’ll find:

📈 Investing

This is where I share personal, hands-on insights from my own journey as a retail investor.

From building model portfolios to managing risk, my goal is to help everyday people grow wealth over time – without the noise.

🧠 Financial Literacy

If you want to raise money-smart kids – or become money-smart yourself – this is your space.

I share practical tools, stories, and systems to help families and individuals build financial literacy from the ground up. Because understanding money early can change everything later.

🌍 The Miscellany

Because life isn’t just about investing and money. In this corner of StoffelWealth, I post thoughts, discoveries, and offbeat topics that don’t quite fit anywhere else – but are too interesting not to share.

Whether you’re here to master your money, teach your kids, or just poke around, I’m glad you’re here. Let’s build wealth – slowly, intentionally, and with a little curiosity along the way.

Latest Blog Posts

The Downfall of Signa Holding and René Benko: Lessons for Retail Investors

The Downfall of Signa Holding and René Benko: Lessons for Retail Investors   René Benko and Signa Holding’s Meteoric Rise René Benko was once hailed as a real estate wunderkind. A high school dropout from Innsbruck, Austria, Benko began his career converting...

Needs vs Wants: Helping Kids Make Smart Money Choices (Part 2)

Needs vs Wants: Helping Kids Make Smart Money Choices (Part 2) 🧠👨‍👩‍👦 A Note to Parents As your child becomes more familiar with saving and spending, the next step is teaching them how to tell the difference between a need and a want. Understanding this difference...

Book Review: The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

Book Review: The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham Introduction First published in 1949 and updated several times since, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham is widely regarded as the definitive guide to value investing. Graham, often called the father of...

Save or Spend? Helping Kids Make Smart Money Choices

Save or Spend? Helping Kids Make Smart Money Choices 👨‍👩‍👦 A Note to Parents Once your child starts receiving a regular allowance and learns that money can grow (thanks to the magic of compounding), the next natural step is helping them decide what to do with their...

The Magic of Compounding

🧠💰 The Magic of Compounding - How to Explain It to Your Kids 👨‍👩‍👦 A Note to Parents Compounding is one of the most powerful forces in finance - and one of the hardest to appreciate without seeing it in action. For kids, it's like magic: the longer your money sits and...

Don’t Panic: How Long-Term Investors Should Respond to Market Volatility

Don’t Panic: How Long-Term Investors Should Respond to Market Volatility Tariffs, Tumult, and Staying the Course: A Note to Long-Term Investors Markets are down. Headlines are loud. Uncertainty is abundant. But for long-term investors, this is not the time to panic....

How I’m Teaching My 7-Year-Old About Money – One Allowance at a Time

How I’m Teaching My 7-Year-Old About Money - One Allowance at a Time When it comes to raising financially confident kids, few tools are as effective - and practical - as a simple weekly allowance. This week, I’m starting an allowance system for my 7-year-old son....

Why Even a Crystal Ball Won’t Make You Rich

Why Even a Crystal Ball Won’t Make You Rich Imagine having tomorrow’s news today. Would you use it to strike it rich in the markets? That’s the premise behind a fascinating experiment conducted by Victor Haghani, James White, and Jerry Bell, described in their article...

Why Retail Investors and Traders Lose Money

Why Most Retail Investors Lose Money Most retail investors – everyday individuals trading stocks and other assets – end up losing money or underperforming the market. Various analyses worldwide confirm this trend. For example, regulators in Europe found that 74–89% of...

Portfolio Hedging Strategies: An Overview for Investors

Portfolio Hedging Strategies: An Overview for Investors   Introduction Stock market downturns are a regular occurrence, and they are part of every investor’s experience over time. Exposure to risk is what generates long-term returns—but it also requires investors...

The Importance of Financial Literacy for Kids

Why Kids Should Learn Financial Literacy Early Introduction Financial literacy is one of the most critical life skills a person can possess, yet it’s often overlooked in traditional education systems. Teaching kids about money from an early age is essential for...

Volatility and Returns: Why Long-Term Investors Should Care

Volatility and Returns: Why Long-Term Investors should Care When evaluating investments, most people focus on returns - how much something gained or lost in a given year. But what often goes unnoticed is the volatility of those returns, and how it quietly eats into...

Do You Gamble? The Fine Line Between Investing and Speculation

Do You Gamble? The Fine Line Between Investing and Speculation Many people lost lots of money in the past “investing” too much of their money into perceived lucrative opportunities. Think Gamestop. During the GameStop short squeeze in early 2021, many retail investors...

Do You Want To Be Wealthy Or Just Rich?

Exploring the True Meaning of Wealth When most people think of wealth, the first thing that comes to mind is money - being rich, having a large bank balance, owning properties, or being able to afford luxury goods. However, while being rich typically refers to one's...

Build a Simple Risk Premia Portfolio: Getting Started Guide

Build a Simple Risk Premia Portfolio: Getting Started Guide Part 1: Recap of Risk Premia Harvesting As described in a previous post, Risk Premia Harvesting is a very accessible trading strategy for any retail investor and does not require a lot of effort to get going...

Leverage in Investing: Boosting Returns and Managing Risk

Leverage in Investing: Boosting Returns and Managing Risk Leverage is a powerful tool in both investing and trading, allowing individuals and institutions to amplify their potential returns by borrowing money or using other financial instruments. When used wisely,...

Bayes Reasoning: Smarter Decisions in Life and Investing

Bayes Reasoning: Smarter Decisions in Life and Investing Bayes’ reasoning is a powerful tool for decision-making under uncertainty. It’s used not just in statistics but also in various fields like medicine, artificial intelligence, economics, and investing. The crux...

Market Timing: Why It Doesn’t Work (And What to Do Instead)

Market Timing: Why It Doesn’t Work (And What to Do Instead) Investing in the stock market can be an exciting and daunting task. One of the most debated strategies within the world of investing is market timing – an approach where investors try to predict future market...

Biases: How They Sabotage Your Financial Decisions

Biases: How They Sabotage Your Financial Decisions This post on biases is structured into 3 parts: Part 1: Understanding Biases and Their Impact on Decision-Making Part 2: Individual Biases That Lead to Bad Financial Decisions Part 3: How Biases Influence Financial...

Risk Premia Harvesting

If Investors want to earn expected returns higher than the riskless rate, the most reliable way is to bear risks that markets reward with a premium. A less reliable way is to pursue active management, in which successful investors (skillful or lucky) reap gains at the...
Risk Premia Harvesting

Risk Premia Harvesting

If Investors want to earn expected returns higher than the riskless rate, the most reliable way is to bear risks that markets reward with a premium. A less reliable way is to pursue active management, in which successful investors (skillful or lucky) reap gains at the...

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My Investment Principles

My Investment Principles

My Investment Principles What I learned from losing 70% of my portfolio - and why that was the best thing that could have happened.   How It All Started I got lucky. Not the kind of lucky that makes you rich overnight - but the kind of lucky that teaches you something...

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