Last week Wednesday I started an experiment. Could my blog make me money? I never initially intended to monetize my site, as I see it more as an outlet for my ideas, insights and ramblings. However, I keep reading…
Jack Ma – Early Retirement: How the Alibaba chief is retiring early and what can we learn from him.
Jack Ma certainly knows how to make an announcement! On his 54th birthday he announced to the market, and the world, that in exactly 1 year, so on his 55th birthday, he would walk away from the corporate world to…
Ready to start an investment portfolio? This is how to do it.
I got a question the other day, from a reader on this site, as to how I designed a portfolio that helps me target an 8% annual return. That got me thinking about the kind of articles I’m writing on this…
Can I make money off my blog: the experiment?
It has now been about 4 months that I have been operating my blog and getting to understand how things work. From managing the design, posting new articles and attempting some marketing of the blog, in amongst a plethora of…
10 simple ways to spend less and get Rich
If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ll know that the real power of wealth comes from time. Little actions today, like spending a little less each month and saving a little more, when added together over a longer time frame,…
Is 4% the right rate to use for Retirement Planning? Why the 4% rule always needs to be nuanced.
Conventional wisdom in the personal finance space tells us that if we want to secure enough money with which we can retire comfortably, we need to assess if that amount can be covered by a 4% return on our portfolio…
Why I chose to walk away from Early Retirement and why I think I made the right choice.
3 years ago I was on track to hit my magic number within a year. That’s the investment or net wealth number I had calculated that if I hit, I would be able to stop working my corporate job and…
10 things to do about that Bad Investment
I like writing about making money off my investments. I bet you would agree that it is always more inspirational to make money, think about making money and write about making money than the opposite. But not all investments turn…
Building Long Term Wealth with one simple strategy
Over the weekend I was catching up with an old friend, Ricardo. We worked together at a large multinational Media and Entertainment Company about 15 years ago. We were both fresh into our careers at the time and both had…
You’ve just received a lump sum of money and don’t know if you should repay debt or rather invest it? Here’s what you should be thinking about.
A decade ago I had been with a new organization for two years as a director in the finance team. My salary had grown 30% over the previous 2 years, thanks to hard work, focus and applying all the techniques…
