Reading Time: 1 Minute Today’s video is on one of the most under-rated topics in personal finance, and that is on how to manage your finances together as a couple. Sure it’s easy when you live and spend for yourself, but when you find “the one”, you want to make sure your finances are as strong as your relationship! Transcript: OK, so up until now, your financial decisions affected only you. You had no one to answer to and everything revolved around you. Then you decided to get married… and you find out that your spouse’s attitude to money is completely different to yours. What do you do now? Well…
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Warren Buffet Turns 90
Reading Time: 2 Minutes One of the most famous persons on the planet just celebrated a birthday last week, and you might not have noticed it. Warren Buffet turned 90. Everyone of course, knows Buffet. When I first started my investing journey over a decade ago, I certainly looked up to Mr Buffet – as I am sure a whole generation of investors did. His simple, folksy maxims are probably more quoted than any other investor. “Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy”. “It’s only when the tide goes out that we find out who’s been swimming naked”. And my personal favourite, “price is what…
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August Net Wealth Update
Reading Time: 2 Minutes What a difference a month makes, 2nd wave of lockdowns seem to have worked and I’m hoping that things return to normality soon. No big waves on the personal investing front, apart from some rebalancing of portfolios and a couple of big ticket expense items. Although at the macro level, at time of writing – tech stocks have started to take a beating. Fair enough I say, no company can justify 10x of their value in 6 months. My personal opinion is that investing in most tech stocks is speculating on a story, no more, no less. You can read the July net wealth update here.…
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Complete Guide To Dividend Reinvestment Plans
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Howdy all! Whoa, freezing me proverbials off here in Old Sydney Town at the moment, hope you guys are staying warm! I’m looking forward to next week, as it’s a well-deserved week off work to have some much needed R’n’R. When did life become so stressFUL these days, geebers. Mind you, would have liked to travel somewhere, say the Bahamas… but with COVID raging on, of course that’s not possible. I was actually searching where to go during my week off when an email notification popped-up about a dividend reinvestment plan approaching for one of my shares in the portfolio. What is a dividend reinvestment plan?…
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The Frugal Samurai Interview Series – Aussie Doc from Aussie Doc Freedom
Reading Time: 4 Minutes Hello all! Back again for another episode of the interview series, where we highlight some other personal finance bloggers in Oz to learn more about their journey so far. The personal finance community here in Australia is small, but it is growing! Today’s interview is with Aussie Doc, who, remarkably is also an Aussie doc. She has been serving on the frontlines in our hospitals for many years and a big thank you from me to you Aussie Doc – for just… being there for society. Aussie Doc runs her blog out of Aussie Doc Freedom Aussie Doc from Aussie Doc Freedom Let’s do it! Hey…
