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25 Sep 2020 1 minute read 5 comments CryptoSnarf
Fidelity 401(k) I've had my 401k for about 3 years now. I've been getting a 6% match from my employer, so I figured I might as well get the free money. Somewhere along the line I learned that I could actually choose investments, and then I even di...
11 Sep 2020 3 minute read 2 comments RealSociology
I’ve been thinking through a few shelter 1.0 options for when I get my land in Portugal. The plan is to put up a small scale budget option, enough to live in comfortably for a few months or even a year while I do land-things. The main reason I’m inte...
10 Sep 2020 1 minute read 2 comments CryptoSnarf
Fidelity I'm a huge fan of Fidelity. I trust them with all my investing and retirement needs. But my biggest issues has been some of the visuals and abilities of the mobile app. They have made many strides for getting advanced features on their plat...
8 Sep 2020 1 minute read 1 comment CryptoSnarf
Revenue Credit I guess I need to hit the books again because this is a term I haven't heard before. I'm used to dividends and capital gains distributions and even stock splits, but never a revenue credit. I know the dividend schedule for the funds in...
27 Aug 2020 4 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
The normal life-financial strategy in the UK is to focus initially on developing one particular skill which one then employs to earn money, in the form of an ‘income’. Later on in one's career, one might go on to either refine or diversify into relat...
14 Aug 2020 1 minute read 6 comments tvlachak
Issue 18.4 / August 13, 2020 Personal Finance As the U.S. government circulates more money, it may trigger a rise with inflation. The nine states seeing the worst unemployment rates. Retirement mistakes to avoid. Stop spending time and money collect...
11 Aug 2020 3 minute read 3 comments RealSociology
Now I'm my late 40s, I'm looking to pick up a few new skills to take me through the next 40 years or so. Got to keep learning! I generally enjoy learning new skills, and there's plenty of skills I'd like to develop - to list just a few, and in no par...
9 Jul 2020 6 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
Back in 2014, I was working full-time as a teacher in a sixth form college in Surrey. I'd had enough by that point, and I spent that summer holiday writing a book outlining my strategy towards early retirement, taking as a model the early retirement...
13 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Jaemoney
This week I decided to check in on my retirement policy and see how it's doing. After all with the stock markets being so volatile our policies could fluctuate drastically. These are strange times so keeping an eye on those finances makes sense - hen...
4 Jun 2020 3 minute read 0 comments FinRev
As the onslaught of dire warnings about the disappearing ability to retire continues to inundate the popular press and our inbox , it begs the questions: “Are the warnings justified?”; “Is this true?”; and if so, “Why?” Have people simply become les...
