Retirement Investing Today

2020-05-08

I’m not sure if it’s the COVID-19 lockdown affecting me, or whether this is really a thing, but over the past month or so I’ve started to really notice...

2020-03-28

With us now being only a single working week away from the new UK financial year and the investment world still feeling the impacts of the COVID-19 situation...

2020-03-15

A chart of the monthly FTSE 100 price looks something like this: Click to enlarge, Monthly FTSE 100 Price This is the chart that you’ll see on all the...

2020-02-29

If you were a trader on the financial markets, I’d think that you’ve probably had quite an interesting week.  After all the S&P500 is down 11.5% ...

2020-01-10

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” – not Albert Einstein as I always thought but actually Rita Mae Brown...

2020-01-01

It’s now a little over 8 years ago that I started to build my UK High Yield Portfolio (HYP).  It was a much talked about strategy back in the Motley Fool...

2019-12-14

I was recently reading a FIRE blog post, from a couple who are still very much deep in the swim phase of the FIRE triathlon, where the post was exploring...

2019-11-23

November 2019 marks a couple of significant anniversaries for me.  The first anniversary is that it’s now 10 years since I started this blog with this...

2019-10-25

If you’re a UK based investor who’s interested in keeping investment expenses low then it’s highly likely that you’re using Vanguard index and exchange...

2019-10-04

At the end of June I concluded that a potentially positive step forward on my FIRE journey was to focus on being a ‘human being’ rather than a ‘human...