Achieving financial freedom is the ultimate goal in personal finance land. Once you achieve financial freedom you can do anything you want, whenever you want. You can also say anything you want without fear of getting fired. In 2009, when I launched Financial Samurai, I helped kickstart the modern-day FIRE movement of retiring early and […]
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It’s been over thirteen years since planting my financial independence flag in 2012. I want to share with you some thoughts on how life has been after financial independence. I originally wrote this post eight years after retiring early. Before neutering my day job income, I feared whether I was doing the right thing financially. What I
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There’s a common misconception that you have to be a doctor, banker, or lawyer to be rich. That’s simply not true. In today’s world it’s easier than ever to grow your wealth in nontraditional and new innovative ways. You can make more money anywhere doing all kinds of things. But first, you have to believe.
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In early 2020, I had an early retirement master plan of retiring at age 45 by the end of 2022. Let’s review the plan given it’s now past the target date for re-retirement. I turn 49 in mid-2026. Here’s what I wrote in early 2020 right before the pandemic began on January 6, 2020. Then
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In 2020, I failed at early retirement and I want to share why. For background, I retired in 2012 at the age of 34 after working in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse for 13 years. I also helped kickstart the modern-day FIRE movement in 2009, when I started writing about achieving financial
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The Setting Every Community Up For Retirement (SECURE) Act recently passed and it will go into effect for all Americans in 2020. There is now the SECURE Act 2.0 for retirees to consider This article goes through the retirement benefit changes for the original SECURE Act. The goal of the SECURE Act is to make
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Financial targets are always moving. Just when you reach one financial target, another financial target is often made. The reason for the change is due to hedonic adaptation. We humans always seem to want more! To make sure you’re being financially responsible, always look at the latest economic data to determine whether you’re saving enough,
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Good news! It just got a little bit easier for everyone 40 and under to become 401(k) millionaires by the time you turn 60. The maximum 401(k) contribution limit for 2021 is $19,500, the same from 2020. Meanwhile, the combined employer and employee contribution limit rises by $1,000 to $58,000. In other words, your employer
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The largest severance package is over one billion dollars! Let me share with you who got such a record severance package amount and why you can negotiate a severance package as well. Over the years, I’ve received some doubt from three types of people regarding the feasibility of negotiating a severance package. The first set
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I have a guest post from one of my fellow blogger, Joe from Retire by 40. Joe is good guy who also happily does his own thing. I’ve known Joe for about 14 years and we live quite similar lives. The main difference is that he was able to convince his wife to continue working
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