On the road to financial independence and beyond
The Telegraph reported that “the global market rout has wiped $13 trillion off world stocks in the worst start to any year on record as business and consumer confidence collapses amid surging inflation. The MSCI World Equity Index has shed more than 20pc so far this year in the steepest first-half decline since its creation,…
My portfolio capital and my portfolio income continued to be stable and relatively unchanged in the year 2022 to date and in the month of May. Things have, however, changed a bit since then as regards capital values. May The FTSE All Share Total Return index, my chosen benchmark, was up by +2.33% in the…
I’ve recorded my spending since I started at university as a student over forty years ago. I used notebooks and cashbooks back then, but I now have just over twenty-five years of computerised records. This has required a bit of work to maintain to say the least, but it is a useful source of data.…
My portfolio and perhaps more importantly my portfolio income have both been stable and relatively unchanged in the year 2022 to date and in the month of April. Listening to news headlines about inflation and recession I am wondering whether this is a period of calm before a storm. April The FTSE All Share Total…