By letting your money sit in the market longer, you allow forcompound interestto take over — which is when your interest and gains stack on top of one another. Blackwell gives an excellent example of the power of compound interest: "Let's say you invested just $100 today and saw a 5%...
The most generous hypothetical benefit comes from Luxembourg, which, with its $100,300GDP per capita, could afford a $17,800 annual payout. Denmark, with its tax take of 49.6% of GDP, comes in second with a potential payout of $10,900. In a May 2017 report, the OECD concluded that...
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It’s a small thing, but a special groan for Interactive Investor for not being able to take SIPP platform charges directly from your SIPP, but rather making you pay them separately from your bank account. Doing so likely increases your effective post-tax platform cost by between 25-67%, ...
adult offspring areladenwith debt, struggling to find work, and finding it almost impossible to save for adeposit. ②While the rise of what travel firms are calling the “genervacation” has been building for some t...
Paying private mortgage insurance (PMI) is stupid. They might as well borrow money from a friend to borrow more money from us and never take ownership of their financial lives. It's as if nobody learned their financial lesson from the past five years. ...
I am in control of my own portfolio. I get to decide which stock to own and its weight in my portfolio. I also get to decide whether I would enroll in DRIP or not. Many Canadian dividend paying companies do provide discounts when you are enrolled in DRIP, so I would take advantage ...
pension. I do need to open a ‘proper’ pension account as I just have a normal bank savings account at the moment which doesn’t give me any rewards or tax relief. The interest rate is so ridiculous they might as well not even bother. Saving into a personal pension (that’s properly...
From a principal preservation stage, you're trying to preserve your health, but a lot of people are at a stage now. They're trying to preserve the principal and not take the market losses like they have been. Maybe that's you.
As strange as it may sound, earning financial freedom is a lot easier for certain people than claiming that freedom once they have earned it. And if the following statement rings true to you, you may be suffering from this same hardship: “I think I’m c