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FIRE update: six months in

The Accumulator is six months into FIRE. Has he lost the will to live yet? Or is that just his friends because he’s so unbearably chirpy now?

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Unmarried couples are treated like second-class citizens and the law is full of tripwires. Here’s how to protect your finances

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Investing for beginners: Time value of money

Time value reflects how you’d rather get a fixed sum of money now than exactly the same amount of money in the future.

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What can you do to improve the 60/40 portfolio? We have an answer. But it’s long and you won’t like it.

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Is the 60/40 portfolio dying? No, but it is feeling peaky.

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Sometime back in the 1990s I began putting all my earnings above the higher-rate tax threshold into my pension.

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Portfolio (basket) case study

A case study in what can happen when your portfolio is constructed from newspaper and wealthlist recommendations.

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Savings rate to the rescue

This article on the importance of your savings rate is by Budgets and Beverages from Team Monevator. Check back every Monday for more fresh perspectives from the Team. I have a new hero in life. His name is Tony Stark. You might know him as Iron Man. Tony Stark is a superhero and plays a [...]

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Mr Market cuts us with his eyes this quarter. Ouch.

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The Accumulator confesses to his greatest investing fails.

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Spend the day locked in the office dealing with BS? Or out on a bike riding in the sunshine? FIRE gives you the power to decide…

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The investor’s lifecycle

The following article on the investor’s lifecycle is an extract from Invest Your Way To Financial Freedom – the new book by popular bloggers and friends of Monevator, Ben Carlson and Robin Powell. Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom is out on 28 September, but you can pre-order your copy at Amazon today. As we [...]

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Which portfolio tracking tool to use

An easy-to-use portfolio tracking tool for the spreadsheet hesitant.

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How to read a bond fund webpage

How to identify and understand the key info on a bond fund’s webpage.

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Borrowing to invest can boost your returns, but it comes with big risks…

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Compare funds: what to look for

Here’s how The Accumulator compares funds and ETFs.

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