Finance Blogs

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• The Dead Box: The ultimate love letter to your family — Tired of your family scrambling through paperwork after you’re gone? I built the Dead Box as a step by step estate plann
• Why your family will thank you for creating a dead box — Want to spare your family years of hassle? I walk through how to create a dead box, what to include in a dead box, and w
• The irony of investing: the less you know the more confident you feel — Oddly, knowing less can make you feel like a market genius. In this post I map the Dunning-Kruger effect in investing an
• How $1,000 a month can grow into $5 million — What if $1,000 a month really could turn into $5 million? In how $1,000 a month can grow into $5 million I show the simp
• You Think a Million Is a Lot? Wait Until You See a Billion — Think a million is huge? I use a pixel visual to explain the difference between million and billion, showing a $62M 0.1%
• Why a 50-Year Mortgage Could Cost You Millions — Think a 50-year mortgage is a smart way to lower payments? I ran the numbers on a $500K loan at 7% to show how much a 50
• What to Do With Cash Gifts for Your Kids — Got cash gifts for your kids and not sure what to do? Here's how I handle cash gifts for my kids with a simple plan: spl
• My Yearly Money To Do List — Every January I run my yearly money to do list to reset my finances. I walk through my backdoor Roth IRA process for 202
• The Different Types of FI/RE — Breaking the myth that retirement only comes at 65, I explain the different types of FI/RE and how the 25X rule works. R
• Retirement Is a Number, Not an Age — What if retirement is a number, not an age? I walk through the 25X rule and the 4% withdrawal method with simple math an
• How I Reached Financial Independence by 36 — Imagine retiring at 36 after a startup exit and years of scrappy frugal living. I explain how I reached financial indepe
• The Balance Between Saving and Living — What’s the point of saving if you can’t enjoy it later? I explain how to balance saving and spending, why compound growt
• Can you retire early without employer health insurance? — Can you retire early without employer health insurance? Read how I bought coverage on the Obamacare marketplace, with ex
• How Does WAR Affect The Stock Market? — Wondering how war affects the stock market? I walk through historical US wars and stock returns, answer the common quest
• How to get rich: what makes the biggest impact on your wealth? — Want to get rich? The biggest drivers of wealth are simple, earn more, spend less, and invest early and often. I show wh
• The power of AND — Want to keep more of your pension? I explain how using employer match and salary sacrifice, then doing a partial SIPP tr
• A Method to Calculate Historic Portfolio Performance — Want a reliable way to measure historic portfolio performance and see if your low charge portfolio beats your benchmark?
• Are pensions a good retirement planning tool? — Think pensions are a no-brainer? I’m not convinced. I run the numbers with two case studies: Average Joe, a 40% taxpayer
• A Simple Low Expense, Low Tax Investment Portfolio for DIY Beginners — Simple works best for retirement investing today. Here I lay out a low expense, low tax investment portfolio for DIY beg
• The decision that cost me £95,000 — What if a single decision cost me £95,000? I recount choosing to keep renting in London in late 2007, show London house
• Save Hard, Invest Wisely, Retire Early — What if you could retire early by saving hard and investing wisely? I tell the story of a 2007 wake up and how I now sav
• My Early Retirement Financial Strategy and Portfolio — Want to retire early in the Med? I walk through my early retirement financial strategy and portfolio, show how my trusty
• That’s it. I’m calling it. It’s my Financial Independence day! — Financial Independence day arrived at 43, and I'm calling it. I walk through my path to FIRE, show numbers like a £1,014
• What to do if you left it late to start investing — Late to the investing game? If you left it late to start investing I map out a clear catch-up plan with real compound in
• Ten good reasons to hold cash — Think cash is boring? Ten good reasons to hold cash, explained with my usual squirrelly humour. I run through emergency
• How did Warren Buffett get rich? — Want the real story behind Warren Buffett's billions? I peel back the myths and show how Warren Buffett got rich investi
• A quick guide to asset classes — Quick guide to asset classes for passive investors starts here. I walk through cash, nominal and index linked government
• Investing for beginners: Risk versus reward — Think cash will keep you ahead of inflation? In this investing for beginners guide I explain risk versus reward and what
• SIPPs vs ISAs: which is the best tax shelter for your investments? — Which is the best tax shelter for your investments, a SIPP or an ISA? The article maps the SIPP vs ISA decision tree and
• Is Revolut good for investing? — Curious if Revolut is any good for DIY investing? I tested Revolut Invest hands on, walked through ETFs, UK and US share
• Investing when the market is expensive — Worried the US market is overvalued and your global tracker is 70% US? I answer reader emails and walk through how to th
• How passive investing is improving your mental toughness — Think passive investing is boring? I show how passive investing builds real mental toughness. I explain how save, buy, h
• The Permanent Portfolio — Curious how a 25/25/25/25 split weathers markets and crises? I unpack Harry Browne's Permanent Portfolio, explain the 25
• How to transfer a stocks and shares ISA — Fed up with a fee bomb from your ISA provider? I show how to transfer a stocks and shares ISA step by step, covering cas
• Stocks and shares ISAs: everything you need to know — Want to keep investment gains tax free? I walk you through stocks and shares ISA essentials, how to use the £20,000 allo
• Swedish greed seen through Andreas Cervenka's eyes — Reading about Swedish finance and quiet corporate excess got me thinking about how “model” economies still breed inequal
• Klarna pays — I’ve been looking at Klarna’s pay structure and what it says about fintech culture in Sweden. Salaries, bonuses, and the
• Managing Money — I’m learning to manage money with faith, wisdom, and responsibility. This post shares simple Christian money management
• Life is sweeter when there is money — I reflect on how life feels sweeter with money. While it doesn’t buy happiness, having financial stability removes stres
• Is it stress? Emotional exhaustion? Financial struggles? — I explore the difference between stress, emotional exhaustion, and financial struggles how they overlap, how they wear u
• Is Poverty a Condition or a Mindset? — I reflect on whether poverty is just a condition or also a mindset that shapes decisions, beliefs, and possibilities. Dr