No more years: I FIRE’d work
Six months after hitting financial independence, I’ve made good on the retire early part of the bargain. I’ve left work….
My (imaginary) Money magazine interview.
I’m not a magazine reader, so it came as news to me when someone on Twitter said that Dave from…
Evaluating The Thought Process Behind Putting Financial Independence As a Goal That Is Worth Pursuing
During the gathering over the lunch break in your office, you overheard a conversation regarding one of your colleague that…
The second most important financial concept in the world
The most important financial concept in the world is the concept of compound interest. Even … Read more >> The…
How to Prevent and Recover from Burn Out.
“Internation Classification of disease” (ICD) is the international standard for reporting health conditions used by physicians and researchers. The ICD-11…
OMG – Nigella Lawson Commented on my Tweet: The Pros & Cons of Social Media
Each year I make a Simnel cake. Along with my extremely alcoholic Christmas cakes, it’s become a much loved family…
The long game
Weak winter sunlight streamed through the glass atrium ceiling. The couple of hundred suits seated around large tables in the…
Are houses expensive in 2021?
House prices have been going crazy in the last year, which again is raising the concern of how expensive houses…
A Simple Savings Plan
A Simple Savings Plan Last week I posted a https://www.terencetobin.co.za/2021/04/04/a-simple-savings-plan/
Why you must define your values
Image Credit – Aaron Burden It sounds really vague doesn’t it? I’m about to tell you why ‘defining your values’…
Buried Treasure #2112: Fear, mistakes, liquidity events, and investing in space
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Greatest Hits: Volume 8 (Insanity)
If I am to be perfectly honest, Easter Friday found me in a slightly disoriented state. I am no stranger…
Archegos Capital Explained – Is this a buying opportunity?
Not sure if you guys are following, but Archegos is really interesting. I did a mid-week article for Patrons on this, but…
The 3 Phases How Wealth Compounds
John C Bogle made a lot of us focus on investment cost. While we do not know the range of…
How To Avoid Getting Carried Away With Property FOMO
Would you like to purchase the property of your dreams, without getting carried away with FOMO, paying too much or…
Weekend reading: Wall Street to Reddit – hold my beer
What caught my eye this week. Competition to work for one of the bulge bracket investment banks is always fierce….
5 Habits To Gain More Freedom Before Reaching Financial Independence
At the core of financial independence is the desire to regain full control of our time so that we don’t…
An alternative approach to decumulation
Taking up on Sovereign Quest’s challenge here is my contribution. In the discussion about attaining financial independence and retiring early…
coiled spring – or cautionary tale – a strange year
Mrs Ermine and I recently celebrated a year of lockdown with a bottle of wine. A strange year, but there’s…
Personal finance links: second guessing prices
FIREFIRE isn’t for everyone. (ofdollarsanddata.com)Sara Rahman and Megan McShane discuss what it takes to achieve financial freedom. (podcasts.apple.com)Financial anxietyFinancial strains…
The Slow and Steady passive portfolio update: Q1 2021
A year ago, give or take, Covid-19 began to spread across the world like an ink stain. Twelve months of…
The 5 biggest investing mistakes I’ve made
Being an investor who started from almost zero knowledge, I’ve made plenty of mistakes. Let’s have a look at the…
Introduction to short selling: How to bet against a stock?
Many of you have probably heard of the Gamestop saga. A lot of hedge funds were short selling Gamestop stocks….
Space: The Last Frontier of Investing
Humans are a highly curious species. Without our curiosity, we would never learned how to walk on two legs, nor…
Not wanting something is as good as having it
I’ve said before that there are two ways to improve your happiness. You can either get more or you can…
My Experience with Peer to Peer Lending
When I started investing in 2013, I only knew one thing: I needed to start investing. I was still working…
Property investing as a business
I wasn’t going to weigh in on the discussion on the recently announced changes for property investors. But after seeing…
Message in a bottle
We often hear variants on the question “what lessons would you tell your younger self, if you could go back…
Feel the fear – but do nothing anyway
So I’m sure like many of us this week I’ve found myself reflecting on lockdown a year on. A time…
Buried Treasure #2111: Odd choices, regret minimisation, lessons learned, and future declines
Welcome to Buried Treasure, the curated best of Sovereign Quest this week.