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I’ve been investing since the late nineties & I didn’t do a very good job of it for many years. About 10 or 12 years ago, I began to get vaguely worried about retirement. I was younger & fitter then, I liked what I was doing, & it was difficult to see that a day might come when I wouldn’t want to work. As the aches & pains increased with age, so did my worries about retirement! Fortunately, it didn’t take me too long to realise that this was an emergency situation & I needed to know more. The last straw was when one of my kids asked about investing in a digital currency! Not only did I need to know more to have my own money survive my retirement years, I needed to know more to help my kids too.

Here, I’ll share some of what I’m learning along the way. I’ll also share some of my silly mistakes & perhaps some kind soul will help me correct some other errors in my thinking along the way. It started out as a vehicle to encourage my own kids to think about investing for retirement at a younger age than I did. But as I edge closer to retirement myself, I’ll share some of my musings (that’s what they call them as you get older!) with my own age group too. How much do we really need for retirement? What if we don’t have enough? Can we go broke in the stock market? Are we paying too much for advice? House or condo? Own or rent? Mexico or Florida in winter? Regardless of age, investing with a view to building wealth should be a part of all our mental portfolios. They don’t teach it in most schools, but wealth building is a critical component of the plan we put together for our lives.

The blog posts include a wide variety of topics that cover saving & investing strategies for young an old. Along with index investing for growth, we’ll look at different strategies for income, diversification, & portfolio management. While much of it will focus on topics of interest for those who want to invest directly, we’ll look at the cost & value of advice too. That may be the right choice for many. But even those using advisors need to learn enough to know that they are paying a fair price for advice that brings value. If you are interested in investing, either alone or through an advisor, there might be something here that will give you pause for thought.

From an online marketing perspective, I know the “right” thing to do is to shout loud & often on whatever investing mantra I believe in. But let me be honest here, there is no one way to do this that suits everyone, so I can’t bring myself to strongly push one method or approach over another. I try to take a balanced view of everything (well, almost everything!) & I am open to learning new things & changing my mind. I still have far more questions than answers. I still don’t know what I don’t know. But I’ll share my stories anyway. And please feel free to share yours with me. Swapping notes & opinions helps us both learn more.

Paul

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