Source: wikipedia Rather than a particular focus this week my brain has been a little all over the place.  Maybe it’s the after effect...

The number one fear of any early retiree (or any retiree living of investments for that matter) must nearly be a bad sequence of returns  e...

Saving Hard has thus far been one of the biggest contributors to my reasonably rapid FIRE (financially independent retired early) Number pr...

Since starting this blog at 35 years of age in 2009 I have never revealed my portfolio values or targets in £ terms.  Rightly or wrongly I...

While my recent posts on sequence of returns risk during drawdown  and bond to equity volatility vs returns  are still fresh in our minds l...

Anybody who is intending to retire (particularly those taking early retirement) without a healthy Defined Benefit Pension or without knowle...

This week as I was thumping up and down the motorway on my lengthy daily commutes I couldn’t help but take some glimpses of the current and...

Many of us in the Early Financial Independence, Early Retirement, community are chasing an amount of wealth which when achieved will allow ...

Only three weeks ago I was writing about my 75% of the wealth required to retire milestone  and now as I sit writing this post, drinking a ...

Every week I religiously capture the value of each of my investments which I then sum to give me an instantaneous net worth.  This week saw...

When we left our UK Invested Income Drawdown dependent Retiree’s a year ago there was trouble afoot.  Our 4% Withdrawal Rate Retiree, whic...

If you’re like me and don’t have a Final Salary Pension waiting in the wings, rich parents (which might include an inheritance), intention ...

So where have I been I hear many of you asking?  Let me start from the beginning... Regulars will know that my strategy is to retire as s...

Looking back over my short 40 and a bit years, technology and access to it really has exploded.  Thinking about technology a little deeper ...

As a British Citizen I am in the enviable position of having the right (at least for now) to take up residency in any 1 of 26 other EU coun...

I am currently at the point where if I can maintain my current savings rate  and forecast average investment return run rate I expect to ha...

If we are ever to build wealth for financial independence then we must first get to the point where we are spending less than we earn.  The ...

If when you retire you: aren't fortunate enough to have a defined benefit pension from your employer coming at some point; decide ag...

For anybody planning on a retirement, whether that’s Early Retirement Extreme, Early Retirement or a Typical Retirement not dependent on th...

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...