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Why budgets aren’t boring
Everyone and their dog has heard that ‘you need a budget’. Often what I’ve seen is that this is only 50% of the equation. I know people who meticulously budget everything and have every dollar allocated but they aren’t getting ahead in life. So how then do we
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Desperation or Power
The newsletter is a day late, sorry for that. I write this newsletter after a couple of weeks of pondering life. Yes, I’m deep and thoughtful like that. I’ve had my thoughts on financial independence and early retirement challenged by the thought of how much is enough. To
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Investing for young people
A guest post by Libertas Come on in, the water is fine. Ok, relax I'm kidding. I had the immense privilege to interact with a young go-getter that is looking to change the way young Kiwis and young people around the globe approach money. I came across her
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Four years of investing Four things I’ve learnt
I could hardly believe my eyes when I received the email from Sharesies. We’ve been investing for four years! What a ride it’s been so far. We are so excited to see where it goes, and as always we’re bringing you along for the ride. Quick update
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How to avoid lifestyle inflation - Well kind of...
We've all heard about the rising inflation prices and how an apple now costs 5% - 10% more than it used to a few months back. In that same vein, something called lifestyle inflation, often self-imposed is something that is causing some major financial freedom roadblocks for people.
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Crypto Winter - How to invest when the market is down
I am afraid that things might have taken a turn for the worst since we last spoke. Well I guess, that depends on who you speak to. Crypto is experiencing what can only be described as a never-ending winter and Bitcoin has been in a rather unfortunate tumble. To be
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How to live a meaningful life
For the past couple of months, I've been posting a lot about the stock market and all its ups and downs. Even though the S&P 500 ended on a high last week, overall this year in terms of investing can be best described below: Jokes aside,
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📈Portfolio Update Q1 - 2022
Hi, there and welcome to a newsletter! To those of you who aren't subscribed, please consider doing so. Its free and you can see how we track against FIRE. Hopefully, it inspires you to get going as well. Firstly to all my Crypto enthusiasts... I jest, of course,
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Why money is not wealth
We made it into another month! How are your investments going? Mine personally is not in the hottest spot with the war still raging on. I had an intriguing thought in the fact that I am hopefully able to point back to these trying times and tell both my kids
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😅Stop being average
What a way to start a newsletter. Especially since we've had so many wonderful subscribers. I'm not always this mean I promise... well... Anways I digress. I am writing this newsletter post with the same goal in mind. Help anyone that reads my content build a
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Does life have to be hard?
I was really considering creating an April fools post, however, I've seen people prank themselves more than I ever could. What a way to start a post. I know. Now let me explain myself before I get some hate mail. As I've been fortunate enough to
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🦠The virus caught us
Hey team, first off. Apologies for the lack of a newsletter from me last week. Corona aka he who shall not be named has visited our family and as such we've all been a bit unwell. Long story short, we feel a lot better and all of us
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Wartime
Well if you asked me if we’re were potentially staring down the barrel of world war 3 I would have told you, you might be crazy. Well, here we are. Russia has launched a full-scale invasion of their neighbours Ukraine and they are actively pushing toward the capital of
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🎨Are NFT's a waste of time?
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Investing when the market is down
Let's not sugarcoat it, folks, the markets over the past month could best be described as an angry tiger that hasn't been fed for months. This same tiger is looking to chomp on any market gains made in 2021. That analogy works right? Let's