The Interest Rate Trap
After nearly 15 years of low interest rates, savers are now enjoying some decent income produced by the money they…
Weekend reading: don’t care permabears
What caught my eye this week. The first time you hear a permabear warning of an imminent stock market meltdown…
Weekend Reading – More iBonds & Highest Security Lending Returns
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FIRE-side chat: investing to go
In this latest instalment of our regular series we meet a reader who made themselves effectively financially independent in some…
Personal finance links: the need to impress
Home ownershipHow to make the math behind home ownership work (or not). (morningstar.com)What happened in 1990 to drive real housing…
Business Protection Masterclass, with LifeSearch
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Best bond funds and bond ETFs
How do you choose the best bond funds or bond ETFs from the bewildering array of products available? Many investors…
USING Pension Tax-Free Cash – YOUR Best Choice
Most of us know that when we come to take benefits out of a pension, we usually have the option…
Weekend Reading – What Returns From Vanguard Lifestrategy Can You Expect & New iBonds.
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Benjamin Graham on bear markets
Any naughty active investor who hasn’t yet read The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham should probably put down this blog…
The FIRE Movement: The Many Flavours of FI
The FIRE Movement has come a long way. What used to be a little subculture dominated by male, childless engineers…
Personal finance links: living in the future
AutosBen Carlson and Michael Batnick talk with CarDealershipGuy about the state of the American car market. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)Peter Lazaroff talks with…
Justin King of Retirement Café
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Utopia
Disneyland is a cliché for a reason. For many, it represents a milestone memory of childhood. Thoroughly sanitised. Polished. Manufactured.…
Weekend reading: recovering from regrets
What caught my eye this week. A couple of weeks ago Nick Maggiulli of Dollars and Data fame conceded that…
Weekend Reading – How To Park Your Cash: Short-Term Investing Hacks
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Personal finance links: long forgotten subscriptions
PodcastsKhe Hy talks building long term wealth with Adam Katz. (podcasts.apple.com)Eric Newcomer talks with Rey Flemings, the CEO of the…
Season 25 Q&A
In this final episode of Season 25, Roger and Pete answer some representative questions sent to us as the season…
Maximising FSCS protection for your investment portfolio
A little-known fact is that most investment types are not protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). Yes, your…
Weekend reading: if you could take one asset class into the shower
What caught my eye this week. Morning all. I’ve got to admit that after writing 5,788 words for this month’s…
Weekend Reading – Weak Currencies: How To Avoid Losses
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5 Financial Mistakes you WILL regret
I’ve been advising clients for 25 years and inevitably over that time, there are some recurring themes across the hundreds…
Personal finance links: accumulation vs. decumulation
PodcastsPeter Lazaroff talks with Tyler Olsen about strategically paying down student debt. (peterlazaroff.com)Captain FI talks financial independence with Jonathan Clements.…
Finance OS: Later Life
Today we need to finish off Season 25 – our finances OS season – by talking about the necessary things…
How to work out your own financial independence plan
So you want to be financially independent (FI)? I don’t blame you. And I know you can do it! I…
Weekend reading: is UK property cheap or is it expensive? It depends which UK…
What caught my eye this week. Perhaps the most fanciful of the many ultimately costly reasons I found for not buying…
Weekend Reading – Bonds Rollercoaster: Fear, Greed, and the Search for Safe Havens
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Results
What were the most memorable moments from when you were sixteen years old? Perhaps your list includes some firsts? Innocence…
The investor sentiment cycle
There is something that fluctuates even more than the stock market in investing – and that’s investor sentiment. Indeed once…
Personal finance links: the myths of aging
Real estateA house is a place to live, not an investment. (bestinterest.blog)Baby Boomer wealth is concentrated in real estate which…