Retirement Investing Today

Around this time last year, I raised a couple of questions in my update post:On the topic of the work I was doing I asked “Will I give it up and ever fully FIRE?”

It has been more than 2 years since my last post.

I was not going to write this 4 years of FIRE post but I’ve had a number of requests for it which made me do a little thinking.

2021 has been my third year since I took that initial leap into the FIRE unknown and for me it’s been my biggest year ever for change.

Usually at this time of year I publish a year in review which covers a little of the qualitative and a lot of the quantitative.

I’m not sure if it’s the COVID-19 lockdown affecting me, or whether this is really a thing, but over the past month or so I’ve started to really notice companies stretching their take on integrity.

With us now being only a single working week away from the new UK financial year and the investment world still feeling the impacts of the COVID-19 situation I thought it might be worthwhile sharing a little about how my portfolio and life is changing giv…

A chart of the monthly FTSE 100 price looks something like this: Click to enlarge, Monthly FTSE 100 Price This is the chart that you’ll see on all the mainstream media channels and it shows that the FTSE 100 still has about 32% to fall if it’s going to ma…

If you were a trader on the financial markets, I’d think that you’ve probably had quite an interesting week.

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” – not Albert Einstein as I always thought but actually Rita Mae Brown 2019 represented my first full year of FIRE, albeit with a slip-up back to FI during the year, which was…

It’s now a little over 8 years ago that I started to build my UK High Yield Portfolio (HYP).

I was recently reading a FIRE blog post, from a couple who are still very much deep in the swim phase of the FIRE triathlon, where the post was exploring who in society has the opportunity to FIRE if they so choose.

November 2019 marks a couple of significant anniversaries for me.

If you’re a UK based investor who’s interested in keeping investment expenses low then it’s highly likely that you’re using Vanguard index and exchange traded funds (ETFs).

At the end of June I concluded that a potentially positive step forward on my FIRE journey was to focus on being a ‘human being’ rather than a ‘human doing’ for a while.

A few months after returning to my industry, albeit in a different role in the pursuit of meaningful work, I’ve left the company and am back to FIRE.

Another year has passed for our UK early retiree.

Personal Finance is a major hobby of mine.

6 months after taking the FIRE (financially independent retired early) leap I can confirm that (for now) I’ve reverted back to FI (financially independent) mode.

As a 46 year old now in Early Retirement it seems worthwhile to now share more detail on how I have as tax efficiently as possible tried to build my wealth so that I run out of life before I run out of wealth.

The fourth quarter of 2018 contained the pivotal moment of my FIRE journey so far – FIRE day.

A little over 7 years ago (late 2011) I started to build a UK High Yield Portfolio (HYP).

The organisation I up until recently worked for closes its year at the end of December.

It hasn't been all bureaucracy It’s been 3 weeks since I FIRE’d (financially independent and retired early) and we are now logistically pretty much settled in Cyprus.

When I started my journey to FIRE (financially independent, retired early) in late 2007 there wasn’t much on the topic in the public domain.