As a family, we are far away from FI. The current official retirement age in Belgium is 67. That translates for me into 2043. Every year that I can be free before that is a win! So, what is the current guesstimate?
A few days ago, I started to question some of my fiscal advantageous investments. What if I could do it better myself? What would you do based on the numbers?
Not that often, you come across a job post that seems to have your name written all over it. When that happens, you just click the apply button. When an offer comes in, it is time to decide.
The idea sounds great: live well below your means, invest the difference and in about 15 years we will be Financially independent and could retire early. Or, we could live now, travel the world and seven seas now. Not bad either
Inspired by The Financial Samurai post, I decided to ask a similar question here: Should we use a part of our life happens fund and emergency savings to pay down a part of the mortgage?
One of the things that I find difficult, is too choose the best solution for my FIRE. Applied to investing, this translates into what core investing strategy you decide on. You know, they say you need to set up a plan and stick to it.
There it was, this morning, right in the middle of extreme volatility markets and a lot of doom stories in the press. “Why are you still invested in the stock market?” It had to happen once.
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