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2015 May - Pension out of 50/50 euro and US stocks to GBP. How to know if a black swan is coming?

Now to get my Irish pension pot out of the 50/50 Euro and US stocks fund. I will put it into a so called Euro cash fund until I can find a way to get them into GBP or CHF or Hargreaves. I want to do this in case a great or monster unknown black swan comes out of no where like Japan, Spain or Italy to hammer the euro even more than the 25% already beaten down. Russia deserves better long investment too given its low debt to GDP. Meanwhile I played on pokerstars for the first time in two years I finished in 3rd place in a 30 pound tourney and won 230 (eliminated at hand #135767801039). There were 120 hands played and saw flop: - 6 times out of 21 while in small blind (29%) - 9 times out of 22 while in big blind (41%) - 22 times out of 77 in other positions (29%) - a total of 37 times out of 120 (31%) Pots won at showdown - 12 out of 18 (67%) Pots won without showdown - 14 And I played in PokerStars Tournament #1232252470 I finished in 8th place (eliminated at hand #135765936500). There were 69 hands played and saw flop: - 1 times out of 10 while in small blind (10%) - 2 times out of 10 while in big blind (20%) - 4 times out of 49 in other positions (8%) - a total of 7 times out of 69 (10%) Pots won at showdown - 2 out of 4 (50%) Pots won without showdown - 6

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