Tagged: investing

January 30, 2018

Battle Of The Vanguard Titans

I started investing in mutual funds in 1997 as mentioned in my journey post. At the time, there were way fewer funds out there and I didn’t have enough initial deposit to open many of them. Fidelity’s Magellan Fund was...

finances

January 9, 2018

How My Net Worth Progressed To Financial Independence

What does a net worth trajectory look like over time when it “accidentally” gets to financial independence? As discussed in my journey post, I never had the goal of getting to financial independence until, well, I got there. But I...

finances / psychology

December 19, 2017

Sensationalizing Risk

Modern media has a way of sensationalizing things, if you haven’t noticed. This is probably because it works, it’s good for views, which is good for advertising dollars. Combine that with the phenomenon of things going viral on social...

finances

December 4, 2017

Win A Free Copy Of “The Simple Path To Wealth” on Audible!

*** THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED *** but please stay and read the amazing book review! It’s a unique skill to be able to take a complex subject and communicate it in an easily understood way. It’s an especially unique skill...

finances

November 16, 2017

My Spreadsheet Is Family And I Love Her

In my recent Accidental Fire Journey post, I mentioned how I started my investing career after stumbling across an issue of Money magazine, in 1995. I subscribed and devoured every issue. Remember that the world-wide web was a teeny-weeny child only...

finances / outdoors and health

November 13, 2017

The Accidental FIRE Journey

It was suggested that since this is a new blog I should probably give a bit more detail about my story. My “Start Here” page covers to purpose of the blog but I’d like to explain more of my journey...