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What’s up fellow Frugal Samuraites!
Hope we are all having a great week.
Gonna be quick today cos I’m late to meet MrsFrugalSamurai, we’ve got a hot date “wink wink”.
Ahem.
Anyway, so in a mad rush I was thinking how to make this post as pointy as possible.
Then EUREKA.
I thought, what best than to share some of the resources and links which I’ve used in the past to obtain my financial info!
It’s a fairly chunky list… and most of them won’t be new – but hopefully there’s a golden nugget or two in there!
Here it is:
Australian Business News
- The Australian Financial Review – The AFR is a classic and required reading for any Australian investor.
- The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age – These are turning more and more “tabloidy” by the day, but once in a while there’s a gem in there.
- The Australian Business Review – The Australian provides a good viable source of info.
- MacroBusiness – Provides great coverage of what’s happening on the ground driving our economy.
- LivewireMarkets – Constant commentary on what’s happening in the markets.
International news
- The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times are must read for international news. Although bear in mind, most of the news is subscription-based (but worthwhile paying for).
- The Economist is one of my all-time favourite publications, it provides a wonderful weekly update of the world and financial news that matters most. Editor’s note: During uni I saw a girl reading The Economist on the metro train once upon a time, time stood still as I struck up a conversation. ALAS! She was taken and not interested in our intrepid hero. Ahhhh C’est La Vie!
- Traditional finance magazines like Fortune and Forbes are worth a look as well as Bloomberg Businessweek.
- For 24/7 info – check out Bloomberg, CNBC, and Google Finance.
- Quartz – Found this one recently, it provides an alternative viewpoint and is a bit quirky at times.
- Value Investing World, another quirky site providing an alternate source of interesting articles.
Prominent Investors
- Can’t go past Warren Buffett Archive by CNBC, which is just Warren Buffet porn (not literally).
- Guru Focus collects articles and news on well, gurus.
- Berkshire Hathaway EVERYONE knows Berkshire Hathaway but did you know Warren Buffet’s annual letter to shareholders is a MUST read for anyone in the investment industry?
- Fund Managers; and there are many, many of them worth following and reading but some classics are: Howard Mark’s memos to investors, “Former” Bond King Bill Gross’s Investment Outlook and GMO for the research and commentary Jeremy Grantham provides. Also I love Bronte Capital’s Partner Letters for their unique insights on the short-side.
Investing newsletters
- Intelligent Investor and Eureka Report – Australian stock research.
- Grant’s Interest Rate Observer is focused on interest rates and economic issues with a contrarian bent.
- The Graham and Doddsville newsletter from Columbia Business School is an excellent quarterly read and is free.
- Pete Wargent is a respected property commentator who I’ve been following for a while, his graphs and explanations are brilliant.
Investing podcasts/videos/other
- How I built this which are a series of interviews with entrepreneurs and how they built their companies.
- My friend Light Beam was asking me about stock market podcasts – well sir, here’s a good one: Intelligent Investor podcasts.
- Planet Money explains tumultuous economic events in ordinary language, or give Slate Money a go if you like em short and snappy.
- The Financial Times’ Alphachat provides unique insights into the whackier world of business.
- Tune in to Open Briefing for a range of presentations/briefings from Australian companies.
- Freakonomics for the hidden side of everything.
- Ben Carson’s A wealth of common sense blog provides interesting views on current market antics and investor psychology.
- Propertyinvestory is a great Aussie property podcast, Tyrone’s got quite a few who’s who of Australian Real Estate on.
- The Property Couch is another great Aussie real estate podcast, though I don’t always agree on what Ben and Bryce say!
- TheFrugalSamurai.com, the man is a genius, enough said.
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Whew, that took longer than I thought… luckily MrsFrugalSamurai is running late as well.
There ya have it folks – did you enjoy that list? Hoping there’s a few in there which you might not be aware of, so go on, give them a go!
Also, do you have one or two which I haven’t covered? Let me know in the comments below about some of your personal faves!
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49 Comments
Alexandra @ It's Not Complicated Recipes
Wow, what a great list of resources. There are several I wasn’t familiar with, so I will be checking them out for sure. Hope your date went well 😀
The Frugal Samurai
Thanks for checking it out! And yeah it did 🙂 Mid-week date night for the win! Thanks for reading!
Scott Gombar
This is great. Thanks for sharing all these resources. It will help me teach my kids how to plan for their future.
The Frugal Samurai
No worries, glad to be of assistance to them! Hopefully they’ll see some value in it! Thanks for reading.
Amber
I will have to check these links out for sure. They do sound helpful and intriguing.
The Frugal Samurai
No problem, please do! Thanks for reading!
No Broken Crowns
This list of financial infor is very helpful! Thank you so much!
The Frugal Samurai
Thanks for reading, and for the kind words! Hope you got some value out of them 🙂
Jill Nunn
Thanks so much for sharing. I know I spend lots of time thinking about today and not what i will need tomorrow. I have kids that will need to further their education soon…it’s really stuff i need to think about.
The Frugal Samurai
Good for you! Thanks for reading – I know right, growing up sux! MrsFrugalSamurai and I are planning for a family and gosh… so daunting!
Joan
These are all true, nice to have somewhere to come to when in need of good information.
The Frugal Samurai
Awww thank you for coming back and for staying! Love it.
Tara Pittman (@momknowsbest15)
Now that my house is paid off, I need to start investing. I will look into these for some information to get me started.
The Frugal Samurai
AWESOME for having paid that house off, it’s our number one biggest expense so kudos to you! I agree, we all need to start looking into how to make those dollars work “harder”! Thanks for reading 🙂
Jesusa Gilliam
These are great links for investing, I personally like Intelligent Investor. My husband and have been talking and have decided to do more investing this year. Thank you for sharing this info.
The Frugal Samurai
No problem, yeah Intelligent Investor is great, they explain concepts so well and it’s easy to understand. Good luck for your investing this year and thanks for reading!
Passion Piece
I must admit that I’m not much into investing and I’m a total rookie in this matter. However, I’d like to change it at some point. Hope your resources will help me understand certain issues related to that topic. 🙂
The Frugal Samurai
That’s alright, we all started out as rookies – at least you’re taking action to address it to get educated first! Thanks for reading, hope you find them useful!
Enriqueta Lemoine
I must say: I do really love your style. I hope you had a great date and keep writing and entertaining us!
The Frugal Samurai
Thank you for saying so, very kind of you! And yes we did 🙂 I intend to keep going “huffs and puffs”.
TheSuperMomLife
I must admit… I know very little about investing. Maybe one day, but for now, it’s not something I think I’ll need.
The Frugal Samurai
That’s OK, hopefully the day when you do invest, you’ll still remember TheFrugalSamurai.com hahaha, thank you for reading!
Nabanita
Interesting. Will be sure to check atleast a few of these out. Hope you had a nice date 🙂
The Frugal Samurai
Hope you do, and yes thank you! Come back next time, would love to know what you thought of the list! Thanks for reading 🙂
Ola @ WanderWithOla
What an awesome list! I have never heard about a lot of resources listed out in this article before. I will have to check them out for sure!
The Frugal Samurai
Yes please go ahead! Best thing is that they are so readily accessible and easy to understand! Thanks for reading!
successunscrambled
A great list of resources to help anyone stay on track when it comes to their finances both in the long-term and short-term. Planet Money and Slate Money looks interesting.
The Frugal Samurai
Thank you for saying so, yeah Planet Money and Slate Money are damn good resources! Hopefully you get some value for them, thanks for reading!
Dalene Ekirapa
I read The Economist and also the Entrepreneur magazine; and yeah, I’m really learning a lot about the financial and the entrepreneurial field.
The Frugal Samurai
Nice work! Those are great places to start – I think that education is so very often the first step right! Thanks for reading, hoping for big things from you this year in that field!
Dalene Ekirapa
Absolutely!
Joanna
This is a great list of resources for people interested in finance and real estate. For me, they are mostly like foreign languages, I don’t understand very much.
The Frugal Samurai
That’s OK – we are all here to be educated right, and you’ve taken the first step! Thanks for reading 🙂
With Love Moni
This is so cool, what a great list of resources. How do you do it?
The Frugal Samurai
Thanks for that! Haha, just a lot of time and Google!
bmcharnley
This is such a great resource!!! Thanks for doing the research and sharing it
The Frugal Samurai
Thanks for saying so! It took a fair bit of time but we got there in the end haha, thanks for reading!
Becca Wilson
I love that you have laid out so many resources all in one place. I am definitely going to be bookmarking for future help.
The Frugal Samurai
No problem, I hope you do and come back again and again! Thanks for reading!
Charli Bruce
What a great list of resources! I used to work in finance before becoming ill and resources like this would have been great back then
The Frugal Samurai
Ah that’s a bummer, hope you are better now – I know, internet is pretty amazing right! Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it.
Mommy Sigrid
I really want to invest in links. Too bad I don’t have the budget for them. huhuhu
The Frugal Samurai
Aww – maybe you’ll make the budget for em next year haha! Thanks for reading.
Christopher Mitchell
This is exactly the post that I was looking to find right about now!
The Frugal Samurai
Glad that you’ve found it! Thanks for reading 🙂
Marie Goldstein
Thanks for sharing this! Really helpful.
The Frugal Samurai
No problem, glad you liked it!
CaptainFI
Thanks for the comprehensive list, I will be going down them exploring in my time off. Cheers
The Frugal Samurai
Thanks Captain – feel free to add to it!