Investments

How To Invest In Speculative Investments Like Bitcoin Without Losing Your Shirt

Interesting in investing in speculative investments like Bitcoin without losing lots of money? You’re not alone. With Bitcoin and other speculative investments reaching all-time highs, everybody is feeling investing FOMO and wanting to get rich quick. In late 1999 I had my Bitcoin moment. I was a 22 year old first year analyst working on […]

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Domain Name Investing 101: Online Real Estate as an Asset Class

The following is a guest post from my friend Joel who has been investing in domain names for years! Chances are that when you read the term “domain name investing” you immediately have the following questions pop up: Umm [insert embarrassed pause here], what exactly is a domain name anyway? Do you mean like a

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What Is Venture Debt? An Investment With Higher Yields And A Lower Risk Profile

Curious to know about venture debt investing? I’ve been a venture debt investor since 2015 to diversify my investments. This post will go through the details of what is venture debt and why it may provide higher yields with lower risk. One of my favorite investment strategies is the barbell strategy. The barbell strategy is where

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Financial Samurai 3Q 2017 Investment Recap: Redeploying Capital

3Q 2017 was a complete blur. After selling my rental house in June, I was mentally exhausted and decided to do a whole lot of nothing except try and be a good father and continue writing on Financial Samurai. The feeling was kind of like wanting to just sleep in after taking a final exam.

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Average Advisor Fees Charged By Brokerage

The average advisor fees charged by brokerage range from 0.63% to 1.17%, depending on client assets. In general, average advisor fees have been coming down over time due to pressure from robo-advisors like Empower, Wealthfront, and Betterment. This is great for clients looking to save on brokerage advisor fees. The wealth advisory business is great

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Financial Samurai Mid-Year 2017 Investment Review

To eliminate financial distortion, make sure I’m within my risk tolerance band, and push myself to continuously reinvest cash flow in order to survive permanent unemployment, every quarter I’ll be reviewing my investments. I’ve found that after even just a couple months, if I don’t write things down, I simply cannot remember how much and what I invested in. For the past

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Financial Advice Sought By A 13 Year Old Cryptocurrency Trader

Besides the fact that there’s a massive generational wealth transfer underway, another reason why I’m not too worried about the financial future of our kids is because they are much more financially savvy than we once were. Here’s a post about financial advice out by a younger read. Thanks to the internet, there is an endless

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Post Brexit: Couldn’t Buy A Range Rover, Bought An SUV Worth Of Stocks Instead

The day after Brexit, I decided to be supportive of the British people and headed over to the British Motor Car dealership to check out if there were any deals. After all, the FTSE 250 had collapsed by 12% the first day of trading after the vote. Moose, my beloved Discovery II that I had driven between 2005 – 2014

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The Importance Of Deep Derivative Thinking To Build Greater Wealth

Most people are leaving a ton of money on the table because they aren’t taking time out for deep thought, or derivative thinking. The people with a Financial Samurai mindset think in derivatives to maximize their financial situation, while those without just see the outcome for what it is and nothing more. They come up

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LendingClub 10 Years Later: A P2P Investing Update

As part of their 10 year anniversary, San Francisco-based LendingClub reached out to me to sponsor an overview of their latest initiatives. It’s been over a year since I wrote about P2P lending, so this is a good time for an update. All thoughts are my own. Before 2007, the world was quite different. There was no

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