Last week I was featured on MyOwnAdvisor.ca by its creator, Mark. It was a great privilege to share my financial independence journey with his readers. One of the most useful skills I’ve explained in the interview is the ability to use leverage. For long time readers of this blog, you already know I’m very fond of financial leverage.… Read More »
Learning to build wealth – from the pros If you talk to enough successful investors you’ll find they share some common ways of thinking. I reached out to some prominent individuals on Twitter. Each has a large online following and considerable experience in their “circles of competence.” I distilled their combined knowledge into short, digestible nuggets of wisdom… Read More »
The new face of wealth Move over Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. There’s a new top dog in down. And his name is Bernard. 🙂 With an estimated net worth of $193 billion, the LVMH chief has been recently crowned by Forbes as the wealthiest person in the world. Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault is a 72 year old… Read More »
My first online video If you start investing in your 20s, there are 2 practical ways you can become a millionaire by your 30s. One way is to save a lot of money. But this requires a very high income. The second way is more relatable to the middle class, which is to increase your investment rate of… Read More »
This is the third and final post in this series where I discuss the most influential events of my personal finance journey. I like to save the best for last so today I’m discussing a book called, “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy,” by Thomas Stanley and William Danko. 🙂 The Millionaire Next Door… Read More »
Overcoming Challenges Millennials have been dealt a rough hand. We face an unstable job security, a sluggish economy, crippling student debt, high housing prices, and record low bond yields. This all makes it tough to retire rich without taking on at least some form of risk. The good news is that we don’t need to make a ton… Read More »