Reading Time: 2 Minutes Howdy everyone! Hope we’re all settling into the new year. Everyone’s heading back to work now (boooo!), you can see it written on our faces. Depressed look. It’s why we have to FIRE people! Get some of our time back to do the things we want to do. Mini-rant over, I wanted to visit the crypto-market today as it’s been a while since the last update. We all know what happened a couple of years ago, when crypto was on everyone’s lips. And yes, we all know for every crypto-millioniare, there are hundreds, nay thousands, nay hundreds of thousands, who have lost their shirts investing gambling on them. Myself…
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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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Bye Bye 2019!
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Howdy everyone! Wherever you are, hope you’re having a WONDERFUL festive season with your nearest and dearest. Although, can you believe that we are on the very last legs of the year AGAIN? Where does the time go, seriously. This will be yours truly’s last post for the year and I wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all of you for making this blog what it is. Been a whirlwind couple of years and I am genuinely stunned with the reception this blog has received since. So for the last post of 2019, I thought I’d do a quick review of how it went…
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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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The Parable Of The Mexican Fisherman
Reading Time: 2 Minutes What’s up guys! So yesterday, MrsFrugalSamurai and I went out to celebrate a birthday lunch with some old friends. It was great to get outdoors, and see their everyone’s faces again – albeit with the smoke haze from the bushfires still lingering. A short aside – but for our international friends who are unaware, Sydney has been shrouded in smog for the last few weeks as our brave firefighters battle the raging fires… spare a thought for those who are in the thick of it. Anyhow, smoke or no smoke, life still goes on. So it came that we found ourselves sitting in a venue which…
