On the road to financial independence and beyond
This is an update on my portfolio for the month of October. This was a quiet and uneventful month, but our annual spending is up 15% on a year ago. October The FTSE All Share Total Return index, my chosen benchmark, was up by +1.82% in the month, and is up by +15.63% for the…
This is a review of my investment trading activity since the December 2019 UK election. I see myself as mostly a buy and hold investor but I have made some trades in the last twenty-three months. I traded in order to re-position between the UK and non-UK stock market, to reposition between income and growth…
This is an update on my portfolio for the month of September. We had some exceptional costs in the month and I am now concerned about future price inflation. September The FTSE All Share Total Return index, my chosen benchmark, is down by -0.96% in the month, and is up by +13.56% for the year…
When I started looking after my own money and began to invest things moved very slowly. There were no FIRE blogs, or even FIRE books that I was aware of. I didn’t know that FIRE meant financial independence retire early. My inclination was to save and invest as I began to earn money, but I…