Lars Kroijer on…dividend stocks, emerging and small cap trackers, and cash
I am super happy to welcome back Lars Kroijer for another investing Q&A. This is a collaboration between Monevator and…
A Message To My Future Self: Keep Moving Forward
Back in 2015 I had just suffered a mega blow to my savings – due to family debt – which…
Wednesday Reads: Letter to your future self
A round up of interesting or cool stuff I’ve read. Image by Genty from Pixabay Letter to your future self…
Memento Mori: Carpe Diem’s Older Brother
The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more…
Personal finance links: big life decisions
PodcastsMichael and Ben answer a scad of personal finance question including how to save for a down payment. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)Brett McKay…
Risk – Deep & Shallow Waters
Photo credit: Got Credit on VisualHunt “A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what…
When Everything Goes Wrong (Or Why Some People Will Never Get Rich)
Our journey to wealth started in earnest about ten years ago. My wife and I had just moved to London….
Don’t Want to Retire Early? You Need to Follow FIRE
I’m glad you don’t want to retire early. I guess you made great career decisions. But have you thought to…
A Roadmap to Wealth
People always talk about how building wealth is hard. Personally, I think it is a mindset shift. We see rich…
Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE): my journey from first steps to leaving work
I achieved financial independence in seven years and retired early six months after that. Documented the journey, too. From initial…
How To Achieve Your Toughest Financial Goals – $100K dividends is it achievable?
In the financial blogging space, many new bloggers set their financial goals as achieving their first 100K by the age…
The Six Steps Of The Wealth Ladder
Many years ago, I had assumed that the journey to wealth is a meandering linear path. Slowly and steadily, wealth…
The joy of going down rabbit holes
“You waste years by not being able to waste hours” – Amos Tversky When I started working as a lawyer,…
A paid off house won't be enough
There seems to be a common opinion in New Zealand that as long as you own a house with a…
Leave LISA Alone
The pandemic has brought many changes to us but one of them was the welcome change to the Lifetime ISA….
The Wealth Effect (Another Crazy Auction Story)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes “And SOLD, to the young woman in green”. “BANG” goes the gavel, as it comes crashing…
14 Sneaky Retail Psychology Tricks That Make You Spend More
From supermarkets to fashion stores, shops employ clever retail psychology tricks designed to https://moneymarshmallow.com/14-sneaky-retail-psychology-tricks-that-make-you-spend-more/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=14-sneaky-retail-psychology-tricks-that-make-you-spend-more
The Ten Commandments of Index Investing
Cease thy sniggering you heathens and pray silence at the back…for I bring you The Word of God. Right…I’m not…
Weekend reading: Doomed and boomed
What caught my eye this week. A year or so has passed since global stock markets began to recover, resuming…
Buried Treasure #2113: Chart crimes, handbrakes, FOMO, and the long game
Welcome to Buried Treasure, the curated best of Sovereign Quest this week.
Real Estate Investing: Another Day, Another Property
Those readers who’ve been around this blog for a while know that I rarely take a break from regularly scheduled…
50/30/20 Rule Is It The Way To Go? 5 Problems with it
If you are reading this chances are you follow some rule of money management or you might just be getting…
How To Deal With The Finances After The Death Of A Spouse
After the death of a loved one, especially a spouse, adjusting is always difficult. Grief can be overwhelming, and it…
Cascade
There are a few things in life that nobody tells you. Big things. Difficult things. Inconvenient things. That parents never…
The housing package
The Government announced its new housing package on 23 March. In doing so, they used some political capital. The following…
What are Enterprise Investment Schemes?
More and more people are asking me about Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) these days. Maybe it’s because the well-off are…
Market Bubbles And How I Plan To Deal With Them
Anyone pursuing financial independence through a passive investing strategy knows they’re going to be in the market for the long…
Personal finance links: getting older
PodcastsCameron Passmore and Benjamin Felix talk with HBS Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans about how our views of money and experience…
Beware graphs bearing outperformance
“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes” – Beware the Greeks bearing gifts – Virgil, Aeneid (II, 49) The more articles I…
Taking Your Foot Off The Brake
Photo by Maryia Plashchynskaya from Pexels “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”…