Reading Time: 3 Minutes What’s going on peeps! Whilst on the bus earlier today, I was reading a FIRE blog which is a personal fave of mine, called Young Adult Money. I think the blog is predominantly about young adults and money. David does a fantastic job with his blog, and I thoroughly suggest you go through his other posts – they’re pretty awesome! Actually, I was reading up on their latest post on Basics of FIRE: Financial Independence Retire Early. For everyone who wants to know what FIRE is and what it’s about, this post provides a great starting point. The post also goes through the well-known concept of the…
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Global Total Returns 2019
Reading Time: 2 Minutes Howdy everyone! It’s going to be a bit visual today, with a couple of graphs showing what the different returns for different asset classes were for 2019… I did a similar post on this last year which highlighted 2018 vs 2017 here. First, here are the stock market returns for 2019 vs 2018: Well done to Russia, IT and Greece. Polite applause to Poland, Chile and Argentina for participating. Although it must be said that looking back, 2018 was a fairly abysmal year, and that 2019 was much better across the board. Just goes to show that markets move in cycles – and unless you have…
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Millionaire by 30 – How I Did It (Final Part)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Merry Christmas 2019 everyone! How’s your Christmas going? Plenty of food and good times with your most dearly beloved I hope! MrsFrugalSamurai and I are about to head off to have dinner with the fam fam, but before that, I wanted to share a quick post to continue with this mini-series. If you joined us late, here is Part 1 and Part 2. Part 3 As mentioned at the end of Part 2, I graduated from uni and entered the full-time workforce during the GFC… in banking and financial services no less. What I saw and learnt during this time deserves a post all on its…
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Millionaire by 30 – How I Did It (Part 2)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Annnnnd we are back peeps! First off, thank you to all those who read the previous post! We had millions of views guys! MILLIONS! Give or take a few numbers here and there. No seriously, thanks all to the wonderful support you have shown me and this blog! Could not have done it without the encouragement and kind words from the community and each one of you! (Looks around the room). But today, today we proceed to part 2 of this mini-series. Which is in response to our dear reader Rennie’s comment: “I am most intrigued by this statement in your ‘About Me’ section: “Recently, I achieved a…
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Millionaire by 30 – How I Did It (Part 1)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. ANOTHER clickbait article? I’d have to say unashamedly, yes. Please bear with me though, because this post is in response to a question I received recently from a dear reader, Rennie, who asks: Hi Samurai Interesting blog. I am most intrigued by this statement in your ‘About Me’ section: “Recently, I achieved a goal I set early on of $1m in net assets before 30.” Wow! This is really remarkable, and truly newsworthy on its own. But I couldn’t find much further about it in your posts. I think you would have many more interested readers if you made a…
