Personal finance links: goals and circumstances
PodcastsMarko Zlatic talks with Nick Maggiulli author of the new book “Just Keep Buying.” (youtube.com)Peter Lazaroff talks with Vanguard’s Liz…
The Slow and Steady passive portfolio update: Q1 2022
Once more the contrast between my daily diet of media-amplified fear and the damage done to our Slow & Steady…
The Big Questions I’m Asking Myself These Days
What the current macroeconomic environment means for our careers, investments, and FIRE plans. The post The Big Questions I’m Asking…
Defusing capital gains: a worked example
The UK tax year ends on 5 April. For many people, the weeks before are a rush to put money…
Dependence
dependence: the situation in which you need something or someone all the time, especially in order to continue existing or operating The phone fired a low battery warning. The…
Greatest Hits: Volume 30 (Two Lives)
Pain, pleasure, and financial magic. Also, dealing with impostor syndrome – and an unpredictable future. Finally, the real reason why…
Weekend reading: Curve balls
What caught my eye this week. This week saw the all-important US yield curve ‘invert’. This happens when short-term rates…
State of Play – Q1’22 Market Update
Q1’22 STATE OF PLAY – MARKET UPDATE (Sunday Ride #13) https://www.bankeronwheels.com/state-of-play-q122-market-update/
Personal finance links: simple portfolios
HousingThe flip side of a hot housing market: a profit windfall. (humbledollar.com)Rising home prices put more people at-risk of paying…
Am I a FinFluencer? ASIC thinks so
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Social care costs: how they impact retirement finances – case study
This is part five of a series on how you can plan and pay for social care costs in later…
A Banker’s Net Worth
Lifting the kimono on our latest net worth update and our asset allocation plans going forward. Also, can you guess…
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ASIC’s Crackdown of Financial Content & ‘Finfluencers’
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”…
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How to spend money
During the final few years of my extended graduate student lifestyle, I wondered if I’d ever spend money like a…
Flip the script
It’s funny how our minds are wired sometimes. I was thinking about how there are significant differences in the way…
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Predictions are hard… especially about the future
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.”– Laurence J.…
Shattered
A Thursday. A balmy spring evening. A pub beer garden in the City. Young suits drifted in from all directions.…
Weekend reading: It’s time to stop paying and pacifying polluters
What caught my eye this week. They say you should never let a crisis go to waste. But in his…
The Most Expensive Mistake You Can Make
On the worst possible move you could ever make as an investor The post The Most Expensive Mistake You Can…
Personal finance links: consistent investing
PodcastsMichael and Ben take listener questions on inflation, international investing and crypto. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)Peter Lazaroff talks holistic well-being with Joy Lere.…
How to estimate care home costs
This is part four in a series on how to plan and pay for the cost of social care in…
Pain and Pleasure
Investment banking is a pretty peculiar business. Consider this: JP Morgan, the biggest investment bank in the world, has just…
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The first 100k is the hardest
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Is your early retirement under threat from an unlucky sequence of returns?
Everyone assumes it won’t happen to them. But from history we know that not everybody is so lucky. No, not…
Eclecticism
On my commute sits an old church. Once grand. Important. Impressive. Dominating its surroundings. Today, not so much. Located on…
Weekend reading: Tears for fears
What caught my eye this week. A reader, John, emailed me about an old article this week. He pointed to…
Greatest Hits: Volume 29
On playing poker, $400k trades, and F-U money Also, how property deals go south and the best inflation hedges. Finally,…
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End of tax year 22
Image by TaniaRose from Pixabay The tax year is ending soon, and the last working day is Tuesday 5th April, so don’t leave…
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Pointless meetings: why office work is terrible
My experience of a pointless meeting I attended and the thoughts that ran through my head while sitting there and…
InvestEngine review
The online broker InvestEngine offers ETF investing in DIY or robo-advice flavours. It’s beginner-friendly and suitable for veterans with large…