Investing

TagLast edit: 3 Jun 2020 7:40 UTC by Aaron Gertler

The Investing tag covers posts about how we can invest our money to produce higher impact, whether we want to increase our expected returns, create stable funding for long-term endeavors, or pursue other goals related to doing more good.

(Please be very careful when reading free investment advice distributed on an open online forum.)

Risk aversion and investment (for altruists)

Paul_Christiano28 Feb 2013 5:00 UTC

5 points

6 comments8 min readEA link

Best way to invest with leverage?

Brian_Tomasik2 Apr 2015 11:04 UTC

6 points

51 comments1 min readEA link

Increasing risk tolerance by growing your investments

Andy_Schultz1 Jan 2016 19:17 UTC

4 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

A generalized strategy of ‘mission hedging’: investing in ‘evil’ to do more good

Hauke Hillebrandt18 Feb 2018 17:41 UTC

45 points

34 comments19 min readEA link

Impact Investing—A Viable Option for EAs?

Naryan11 Jul 2018 2:10 UTC

7 points

17 comments6 min readEA link

Earning to Save (Give 1%, Save 10%)

Raemon26 Nov 2018 23:47 UTC

89 points

39 comments3 min readEA link

Impact investing is only a good idea in specific circumstances

Hauke Hillebrandt6 Dec 2018 12:13 UTC

86 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

(lets-fund.org)

EAs Should Invest All Year, then Give only on Giving Tuesday

Cullen10 Jan 2019 21:17 UTC

54 points

24 comments2 min readEA link

EAs and EA Orgs Should Move Cash from Low-Interest to High-Interest Options

Brendon_Wong23 Feb 2019 12:24 UTC

56 points

18 comments13 min readEA link

Effective Impact Investing

grissman27 Feb 2019 18:07 UTC

62 points

35 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Pros/Cons of Donor-Advised Fund

zdgroff22 Apr 2019 0:56 UTC

13 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

Alix Zwane: Using evidence for smart impact investing

EA Global15 Jun 2019 14:49 UTC

6 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Effective Altruism and International Trade

brb24315 Oct 2019 3:21 UTC

38 points

77 comments5 min readEA link

How Much Leverage Should Altruists Use?

MichaelDickens7 Jan 2020 4:25 UTC

70 points

64 comments43 min readEA link

Phil Trammell: Philanthropy timing and the hinge of history

EA Global11 Feb 2020 21:15 UTC

22 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

EA could benefit from a general-purpose nonprofit entity that offers donor-advised funds and fiscal sponsorship

Brendon_Wong27 Jun 2020 0:16 UTC

58 points

17 comments3 min readEA link

John Halstead: Is impact investing impactful?

EA Global29 Jun 2020 12:56 UTC

27 points

4 comments14 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

The case for investing to give later

Sjir Hoeijmakers3 Jul 2020 15:23 UTC

54 points

30 comments14 min readEA link

Estimating the Philanthropic Discount Rate

MichaelDickens3 Jul 2020 16:58 UTC

79 points

21 comments37 min readEA link

Maximizing the Long-Run Returns of Retirement Savings

FCCC7 Jul 2020 8:52 UTC

11 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

Movement building and investing to give later

abergal15 Jul 2020 22:46 UTC

48 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Sustainability Fund

El-Nino920 Jul 2020 7:52 UTC

2 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Can High-Yield Investing Be the Most Good You Can Do?

Disselkoen27 Jul 2020 5:51 UTC

14 points

6 comments5 min readEA link

A portfolio approach towards effective environmentalism?

Bede27 Jul 2020 8:48 UTC

11 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Should we create an EA index?

Peter Sølling4 Aug 2020 11:25 UTC

18 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Crucial questions about optimal timing of work and donations

MichaelA14 Aug 2020 8:43 UTC

45 points

4 comments27 min readEA link

An argument for keeping open the option of earning to save

Benjamin_Todd31 Aug 2020 15:09 UTC

34 points

13 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is shareholder activism worth it?

sbowman4 Sep 2020 23:49 UTC

21 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on patient philanthropy

Tobias_Baumann8 Sep 2020 12:00 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(s-risks.org)

Keynesian Altruism

Grayden13 Sep 2020 12:18 UTC

43 points

18 comments7 min readEA link

Donor-Advised Funds vs. Taxable Accounts for Patient Donors

MichaelDickens19 Oct 2020 20:38 UTC

44 points

15 comments10 min readEA link

Investing to Give: FP Research Report

Sjir Hoeijmakers30 Oct 2020 12:43 UTC

94 points

10 comments10 min readEA link

Using the tax system and stock market to donate more: a few basic strategies

BenSchifman1 Nov 2020 21:44 UTC

24 points

3 comments11 min readEA link

Uncorrelated Investments for Altruists

MichaelDickens23 Nov 2020 23:03 UTC

58 points

15 comments25 min readEA link

“Patient vs urgent longtermism” has little direct bearing on giving now vs later

Owen Cotton-Barratt9 Dec 2020 14:58 UTC

177 points

32 comments6 min readEA link

Asset Allocation and Leverage for Altruists with Constraints

MichaelDickens14 Dec 2020 20:48 UTC

31 points

0 comments25 min readEA link

How You Can Counterfactually Send Millions of Dollars to EA Charities

Brendon_Wong24 Dec 2020 2:50 UTC

82 points

19 comments12 min readEA link

Even Allocation Strategy under High Model Ambiguity

MichaelStJules31 Dec 2020 9:10 UTC

15 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What are some high impact companies to invest in?

Jpmos23 Jan 2021 18:30 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Should patient investors try to correlate portfolio holdings with potential cause areas?

shepardspie31 Jan 2021 22:11 UTC

20 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Missing Market: Sustainable African ETF

James Bailey3 Mar 2021 14:57 UTC

49 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

ESG investing isn’t high-impact, but it could be

Sanjay18 Mar 2021 14:07 UTC

91 points

6 comments29 min readEA link

[Question] As an EA, Should I renounce my US citizenship?

anonymoususer18 Apr 2021 16:45 UTC

10 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Event-driven mission correlated investing and the 2020 US election

jh14 Jun 2021 15:06 UTC

48 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

What would you do if you had half a million dollars?

Patrick17 Jul 2021 16:18 UTC

107 points

52 comments5 min readEA link

Mission Hedgers Want to Hedge Quantity, Not Price

MichaelDickens18 Aug 2021 20:32 UTC

28 points

6 comments5 min readEA link

Low-Hanging (Monetary) Fruit for Wealthy EAs

MichaelDickens16 Oct 2021 15:43 UTC

32 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Seeking feedback on new EA-aligned economics paper

jh21 Oct 2021 21:19 UTC

35 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

X-Risk, Anthropics, & Peter Thiel’s Investment Thesis

Jackson Wagner26 Oct 2021 18:38 UTC

49 points

1 comment20 min readEA link

Announcing the Patient Philanthropy Fund

Sjir Hoeijmakers27 Oct 2021 15:44 UTC

129 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

How EAs can become Accredited / Experienced Investors (practical tips)

Alex Barnes 11 Nov 2021 14:00 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Why EAs should become Accredited / Experienced Investors (anecdotal evidence)

Alex Barnes 11 Nov 2021 15:28 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

EA-Aligned Impact Investing: Mind Ease Case Study

Brendon_Wong15 Nov 2021 15:57 UTC

72 points

25 comments18 min readEA link

Earning to give may be the best option for patient EAs

JackM26 Dec 2021 10:26 UTC

31 points

5 comments6 min readEA link

Activist Investment Funds for Climate Change? I want to leverage my retirement money to also push positive changes in the world while at least maintaining the principal.

maxwell2 Jan 2022 13:53 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Is EA over-invested in Crypto?

Max Clarke18 Jan 2022 4:19 UTC

22 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What brand should EA buy? If we had to buy one.

Nathan Young5 Feb 2022 11:13 UTC

31 points

32 comments1 min readEA link

A Comparison of Donor-Advised Fund Providers

MichaelDickens9 Mar 2022 18:53 UTC

101 points

28 comments12 min readEA link

Mission-correlated investing: Examples of mission hedging and ‘leveraging’

jh11 Mar 2022 9:33 UTC

25 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

A Practical Guide for Saving-to-Give

Chris_Webster2 Apr 2022 17:28 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.christopher-webster.com)

A Preliminary Model of Mission-Correlated Investing

MichaelDickens4 Apr 2022 18:50 UTC

34 points

2 comments22 min readEA link

The Risk of Concentrating Wealth in a Single Asset

MichaelDickens29 Apr 2022 17:58 UTC

97 points

20 comments11 min readEA link

How to optimize your taxes as a donor in the US: donate appreciated securities, make a donor-advised fund, and bunch your donations

sam_brenner30 Apr 2022 10:19 UTC

15 points

8 comments11 min readEA link

(www.sambrenner.xyz)

Finding socially responsible investment opportunities (looking for feedback)

hyunjun14 Jun 2022 10:00 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

Index Investing and EA

Mahendra Prasad6 Jul 2022 18:23 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(bogleheads.podbean.com)

[Question] Should I invest my runway?

David King9 Jul 2022 10:22 UTC

8 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Investing for a cause

brb24312 Aug 2022 1:35 UTC

5 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

Philanthropists Probably Shouldn’t Mission-Hedge AI Progress

MichaelDickens23 Aug 2022 23:03 UTC

28 points

9 comments36 min readEA link

LW4EA: Six economics misconceptions of mine which I’ve resolved over the last few years

Jeremy30 Aug 2022 15:20 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Should Patient Philanthropists Invest Differently?

MichaelDickens14 Sep 2022 20:16 UTC

23 points

5 comments19 min readEA link

Climate-contingent Finance, and A Generalized Mechanism for X-Risk Reduction Financing

johnjnay26 Sep 2022 13:23 UTC

6 points

1 comment26 min readEA link

Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors (James Choi, NBER)

BrownHairedEevee16 Oct 2022 22:21 UTC

39 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Semi-conductor / AI stocks discussion.

sapphire25 Nov 2022 23:35 UTC

10 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

When to diversify? Breaking down mission-correlated investing

jh29 Nov 2022 11:18 UTC

33 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

Is the US government insolvent?

Satoshi1 Dec 2022 13:58 UTC

3 points

10 comments5 min readEA link

Poll: Donor-Advised Funds

11221 Dec 2022 7:01 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

End-of-year donations: Give For Good

Rik22 Dec 2022 8:56 UTC

−13 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

AGI and the EMH: markets are not expecting aligned or unaligned AI in the next 30 years

basil.halperin10 Jan 2023 16:05 UTC

327 points

175 comments26 min readEA link

[Question] How can I start off my career as an EA aligned Venture Capitalist ?

Nayanika27 Jan 2023 9:30 UTC

19 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is EA’s capital invested as well as top endowments?

Arden Wiese28 Jan 2023 1:47 UTC

8 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Investing in climate mitigation in Africa

drbrake30 Jan 2023 16:21 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How to hedge investment portfolio against AI risk?

Timothy_Liptrot31 Jan 2023 8:04 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

EAs should ‘invest to give’. A perspective from Fintech founders

Marco Vega14 Feb 2023 15:51 UTC

−57 points

11 comments21 min readEA link

SVB collapse- cheap startup equity?

Anneal13 Mar 2023 4:31 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Personal Finance Coaching for EAs: Call for Applicants

Rebecca Herbst22 Mar 2023 23:22 UTC

31 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

[Question] Which stocks or ETFs should you invest in to take advantage of a possible AGI explosion, and why?

BrownHairedEevee10 Apr 2023 17:55 UTC

19 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

Ramsey and Intergenerational Welfare Economics—Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

BrownHairedEevee24 May 2023 0:27 UTC

14 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(plato.stanford.edu)

A simple way of exploiting AI’s coming economic impact may be highly-impactful

kuira16 Jul 2023 10:30 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Against much financial risk tolerance

trammell30 Jul 2023 22:27 UTC

95 points

29 comments42 min readEA link

Financial guidance for US-based donors

Rebecca Herbst9 Oct 2023 23:57 UTC

38 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Cash and FX management for EA organizations

JueYan14 Oct 2023 0:19 UTC

279 points

15 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] If EAs Should Invest, What Should We Invest In?

Nicholas Kruus29 Dec 2023 14:51 UTC

15 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

When Realizing Capital Gains Reduces Tax

ABlank5 Jan 2024 0:18 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Marginal Revolution University’s courses and series

Vasco Grilo1 Mar 2024 18:25 UTC

26 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

(mru.org)

[Question] Alternative to Mintos (developing world loan investment) in the UK?

Daniel Askew8 Apr 2024 9:42 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

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