I started Financial Samurai. Today, I’m 48 and life accelerates as we age. One day you may wake up and find yourself in the middle of a midlife crisis. The key to getting through it without going broke is to create a midlife crisis fund in advance. That and mentally prepare as much as possible. […]
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Here are some investing lessons from a surreal 2017. It’s always good to learn and review each year to hopefully improve risk-adjusted returns. At the beginning of the year, I decided to track my investments with a detailed spreadsheet. My cash flow was increasing and I wanted to make sure the money was being properly deployed.
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If you are looking to hire a financial advisor, this post will discuss some questions to ask before you do. It’s important to hire an experienced financial advisor who actually also has more wealth than you do. Imagine learning how to cook from someone who only knows how to operate a microwave oven. Yum! Those
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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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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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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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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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