I am a big fan of everybody checking their credit scores at least twice a year regardless of their borrowing needs. The world is a sinister place where greedy corporates go to no ends to crush you for being late on any payments you’ve made, no matter how small. There are also an endless amount
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Do you know what’s fun and free? Dreaming BIG! A while ago, I thought: Can Financial Samurai be the next billion dollar financial technology company? After all, all my writing is from firsthand experience. Further, you are seeing a lot of personal finance sites grow with a bunch of inexperienced freelances. As kids, we use to
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Reddit recently hosted an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with Hardeep Walia, Founder and CEO of Motif Investing, and former SEC Chairman (1993-2001) and Motif Investing Board Member, Arthur Levitt. There were some pretty interesting exchanges that I thought were worth highlighting for anybody who uses Motif Investing and who is interested in investing as a whole.
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Note: All proceeds after expenses goes to a charity focused on keeping kids off the streets and in the classrooms. Thanks for your support! After six years of writing over 1,000 personal finance articles, I’ve compiled 35 of the best Financial Samurai articles into one eBook to help you achieve financial independence sooner, rather than
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Try to be an accredited investor. Once you are, you can invest more easily in private companies. Do you know what the market capitalization was of Microsoft when they went public on March 13, 1986? A mere $500 million (~$1 billion in today’s dollars). If you had bought just 100 shares of Microsoft at the $21 offering
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Update 6/15/202: I’m assuming Bo got his earn out and is a very rich man now since I published this post on 3/18/2015. I’m pleased to share an interview I did with Bo Lu, the CEO of FutureAdvisor. FutureAdvisor is an algorithmic money manager with sophisticated tools to help clients manage their money. Over 300,000
The following is a guest post from Chris, a fella I met while stranded in Frankfurt, en route home from my business trip to Switzerland and Mallorca to do more research on the happiest countries in the world. Chris has a dilemma and could use the community’s help! – Sam It was early evening when
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Oil is a popular topic due to its surprising ~60% price drop from June 2014 to 1Q2016. Nobody could have imagined such a quick collapse in oil. I certainly didn’t when I decided to buy a Honda Fit instead of a Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited last summer! If I had known I could pump my
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Fear of investing in the stock market is real. This fear is why I’ve encountered so many people since Financial Samurai started in 2009 who have huge cash hoards. Due to fear, they decided to save their cash instead of invest it. But if you just hoarded cash since the 2009 Global Financial Crisis, you
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The following is a guest post by Dominic. He shares his story about escaping the life of trouble and poverty towards one day reaching financial independence. He shares his journey from welfare to well-off. Reading different perspectives is what makes the Financial Samurai community so awesome. – Sam They say the best time to plant
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