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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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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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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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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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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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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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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One of the best ways to eradicate financial distortion is by meticulously tracking all investments. I’m pretty sure none of us will remember the exact details of what we bought, when we bought, and how much we bought years from now. This may lead to a significant miscalculation in cashflow during retirement. As a result, I’ve
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Long-term investing is hard without discipline. One of the biggest problems I consistently observe is people’s inability to control their spending once they start making money or a lot more money. We all know someone who is making the big bucks, yet is just living paycheck to paycheck (see: Scraping By On $500,000 A Year). After three months
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Financial distortion can make you think you have a greater net worth than you really do. This articles talks about how to protect your net worth from financial distortion so you can asset allocate better, have a clearer investment thesis, and ultimately make more money in the long run. Back in 2007, I invested in
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