Links tagged with “finance”
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Retirement Planner Links — James Shack
Love a good retirement planner spreadsheet.
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Everything you don’t actually need to know about the economics of Succession | Financial Times
Interesting, if futile. (via Money Stuff)
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The Safe Withdrawal Rate Series – A Guide for First-Time Readers – Early Retirement Now
A 49-part (!) series of blog posts about safe withdrawal rates for retirement. (via Monevator)
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Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Looking for Tether’s Money - Bloomberg
Explaining how finance works. I’m glad he didn’t write economic text books decades ago because I might have stuck with economics A Level.
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The Absurdity is the Point - Galaxy Brain
A decent attempt to try and describe the weirdness of the current state of internet / crypto / meme news. “Personally, it scrambles my brain.” (via Web Curios)
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Accounting for big expenses and depreciation in your FIRE budget - Monevator
I haven’t often seen this aspect discussed at length in early retirement planning articles.
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Dynamic asset allocation and withdrawal in retirement - Monevator
The second of the three posts about living off his investments (the third is less interesting).
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Decumulation: a real life plan - Monevator
The first of three posts in which The Accumulator outlines his financial plans for living off his investments.
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UKEthicalInvesting - making money in a responsible way
Only just come across this subreddit. Been going since April 2020. Ethical investing often gets dismissed in other investing places, so interesting to have this.
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What’s your financial origin story? (Monevator)
Scores of interesting comments from readers about how and when they began saving/investing in order to, hopefully, become financially independent.
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LifeSplat.com
UK retirement calculator that looks different from the usual. Would be nice if some of the assumptions could be tweaked.
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FI Calc
Not only an extremely nicely done retirement calculator but it also has a clearly-written guide.
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Low cost index trackers that will save you money
I’d forgotten this occasionally-updated post existed.
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Anna Shipman : JFDI - Finance for non-accountants
Nice clear explanation of profit and loss, balance sheets, etc.
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What is a sustainable withdrawal rate for a world portfolio? | Monevator
I’ve read many times that a 4% “safe withdrawal rate” is too optimistic, but not a simple breakdown like this of the adjustments to it that one should make.
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The SEC Isn’t OK With Spouses Who Eavesdrop - Bloomberg
Of the several topics that recur in Matt Levine’s Money Stuff newsletter, the “what counts as insider trading” topic is always interesting and quite fun.
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Book: Living off Your Money, by M. McClung - Bogleheads.org
I got through most of this long topic earlier in the year, and the book sounds good. But it’s time to close the tab.
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How I track investment returns - Young FI Guy
Impressive spreadsheet for tracking a portfolio. (via Monevator)
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Bloomberg Opinion - Money Stuff
Matt Levine’s weekdaily email is so good. US-focused business/finance, clearly written (some of it a bit over my head), a personality, some great lines, and lots of it.
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Portfolio Charts – a picture is worth a thousand calculations
Mainly saving this simply because, rarely for a personal finance site involving data and charts, it looks reasonably designed.
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My investment-tracking spreadsheet | FIRE v London
Fairly complex spreadsheet for tracking investments across multiple (UK) trading accounts.
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UK Finance Detailed Flowchart : UKPersonalFinance
Attempting to create a flowchart for deciding how to pay debts and/or save. Its hard to make this stuff both simple and general.
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They don’t tax free time (Monevator)
A good post and loads of comments - lots of people talking about working less to avoid going into the higher tax bracket.
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Why 4% Could Fail
The 4% Safe Withdrawal Rate should be closer to 2%. Maybe less, especially for many countries outside the US. (via Monevator)
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Noh-Joon Choo’s answer to If Warren Buffett had to start today, could he still reach his current level of wealth? - Quora
Nice clear explanation of how Berkshire Hathaway uses their insurance companies’ funds to increase their overall rate of return.
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Minimum salary required in London: £500k? | FIRE v London
Staggering. You might need something to take out your anger on.
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How to unitize your portfolio
Long and, inevitably, dull. But I’d wondered how to do this kind of thing.
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I’m Just Now Realizing How Stupid We Are
One thing learned from writing 3000 Motley Fool columns: “I’ve learned that short-term thinking is at the root of most of our problems, whether it’s in business, politics, investing, or work.” One for the futurists there. (via Kottke)
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Which asset allocation is right for you?
Some nice summaries of different balances of passive investment portfolios.
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Financial calculators and tools collected
All the financial calculators, mostly UK-oriented, you could need.
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John Lanchester · Are we having fun yet?: The Biggest Scandal of All · LRB 4 July 2013
This and the second part are so worth a read. Banks are mind-boggling.
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9 lazy portfolios for UK investors
It’s annoyingly rare to come across UK-specific guidelines for portfolios, so this up-to-date set of examples is handy.
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Do We Need to Fire the Entire Financial Advice Industry?
A good rant about how much financial advice assumes the advice-seeker’s large level of spending is perfectly fine.
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Fund directory - Investment Management Association
Compared to other fund searching tools, this is quite quick and simple, and has an “Ethical” filter. (via Monevator)
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FIRECalc: A different kind of retirement calculator
It amazes me someone could go to this much effort to create a very complex tool (scroll down…) but leave the interface so bafflingly impenetrable. (via Mr Money Mustache)
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Retirement Researcher Blog: The Shocking International Experience of the 4% Rule
Historical number-crunching, looking at one of the universal rules-of-thumb of financial blogs. (via Monevator)
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Bestinvest | Fund Search | Comments | Ethical | ISA | page 1
Aha, Besinvest’s Fund Search tool’s Advanced search options lets you filter by “Investment Themes”, such as Ethical. It’s a start.
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Investments & ISAs | Your Ethical Money (an EIRIS initiative)
Big searchable table of ethical funds.
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Ethical Funds | Save up to 100% on Initial Charges!
Lists of Ethical Funds for ISAs (more categories in left-hand menu. It’s been hard just to find what’s available anywhere.
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Early Retirement Extreme: — written by Jacob Lund Fisker, Freelancer
Fascinating to read something like this (save 70-80% of your income, invest it, spend little, retire after five years) written by someone who has the perspective to know it’s not for everyone. (via Oliver Burkeman’s Guardian column)
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Collective2 - Find the trading strategy best for you
A site for finding different stock market trading algorithms. Some very nice touches, but still bewildering to me. I could get so lost in this stuff if I had the time. (via Tom Taylor)
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Fundable Online Fundraising
Ask people to pledge money to something you do. No one pays anything until you reach your funding target. (via Kevin Kelly)