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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I’m Back!
Reading Time: 2 Minutes What’s up everyone! Sorry, sorry – I know I’ve been neglecting this blog a little bit, but things have been a bit TOO much these days. Some of you are aware of what’s going on in our personal lives, and I won’t dwell on it here. However strictly financially speaking – I’ve done a LOT in the last few days. You see, despite the reinforcement that finance and numbers and FIRE are not the be all, end all in recent weeks (believe me, family and health are), I still think it’s important to not let that area slide. So like any good boy scout, I’ve been…
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Our Latest Buy (Part 4)
Reading Time: 5 Minutes Howdy boys and girls! Me again. Let’s dive straight in and plug on with part 4 of our latest real estate purchase (read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 here). Last time I disclosed that we bought Property 3 for a surprising offer of $210,000 against an asking price of $298,000. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons for this one… and you decide whether it’s a good buy or not! Pros So um… where to start? I guess from the beginning! In Part 1, I stated that the property was listed for $298,000, however 1 bedroom units in the same complex were asking…
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2019 Sydney Property Outlook Part 1
Reading Time: 4 Minutes Hi guys! How’s everyone coming along, we all having a good week? Bit of a mad rush for meself to be honest. Lets out a BIG gulp of air – wheeeew. I think it’s got something to do with Xmas just around the corner, damnit if I ain’t looking forward to some quality R&R. Despite all this, it’s hard to not feel a bit of Christmas Cheer, you can see it in the faces of strangers everywhere you go. Tell you what ain’t so cheery though, something which is hammered again and again with increasing frequency by the media… …The Sydney housing market of course! We’ve…
