Within this great country of ours we have what appears to be an eye watering level of debt .  We learnt this week that household debt i...

Two thoughts: In life we all behave differently and have different aspirations.  As long as harm is not being done to others then this is...

There are about as many investment strategies and investment options as there are investors. I also believe that many of these are offered ...

There are a multitude of investment opportunities  and investment products available today to help investors meet their goals, which might...

There are almost as many investment strategies as there are financial websites.  These might include everything from you must buy this shar...

Ok I’ll admit it.  I read the Investment Times which is a monthly publication issued by Hargreaves Lansdown.  It’s clearly a piece of market...

Alright I’ll admit it.  Investing for retirement is my hobby.  This means that I continually run all sorts of detailed analysis, some of whi...

This blog is fast approaching its third anniversary.  In my first naive post I laid out in very brief terms “what” some of my investing st...

The S&P500 is today yielding somewhere around 1.8% per annum.   This doesn’t sound like a lot and indeed it isn’t if the investment...

Unlike some people out there I am not a value investor in the true sense of the word. That is I don’t go looking for individual stocks which...

Why has it been good year to date for my portfolio? Well year to date my Personal Rate of Return is 3.9%, which compares favourably against...

I first started taking my retirement investing asset strategy seriously in 2007 when I became disillusioned with the financial sector and de...

As I’m sure everyone knows the Australian Stock has seen some falls of recent weeks. Using my monthly data set it’s down 13% from the monthl...

Buying (New money): Since my last post  I have had a good month of savings and managed to save 72% of my after tax earnings and pension sal...

As I highlighted here National Savings and Investments (NS&I) today released a new issue of both 3 and 5 year Index Linked Savings Cert...

Edited 06 June 2010: I have found more exact data allowing me to determine benchmark returns to the day. I have therefore updated the data i...

Buying (New money): Since my last post  I have continued living frugally and saved 81% of my net earnings and pension salary sacrifices. To...

As an employee of a company I have the option to contribute to a pension scheme. I have made the choice as part of my retirement investing s...

Buying (New money): Since my last post  I have saved 83% of my net earnings. In addition some more good news was that significant earnings t...

Today is a guest post from a reader of Retirement Investing Today. Two elements of their investing strategy have inspired me. Firstly, the...