We have updated our Vanguard review for 2024 to clearly lay out the most notable pros and cons of this investing platform and why it’s a FI community favorite year after year. We’ll look at why people so often recommend it as the best place to invest your FI funds,
In this episode; global funds, it’s not doctrine, index funds, VTSAX, what is in index funds, and the opposite of active investing.
In this episode: VTSAX funds, bonds, cap-weighted funds, finding your ballasts, staying the course, and the simple path to wealth.
Pursuing FI is well and good if you have an established job that pays you well. But what about those fresh out of college? I know when I graduated, I barely had enough in the bank to put a down-payment on an apartment, let alone start pursuing Financial Independence. What
What $100 a Month Truly Means In the ‘Community Taking Action’ section of today’s email (see below), Charity said her reducing $100/month in expenses “was not flashy” but I wanted to point out the immense value of every $100 reduction in life expenses: For every $100 reduction in monthly expenses,
Tax Loss Harvesting Andrew wrote in, “Hey Brad – I love the newsletter! My 1% this week was doing some tax-loss harvesting with the market being down. I hadn’t ever done it before, so I read up on it a bunch and traded my VTI losses of $2.6K and then
Every week we here at ChooseFI get hundreds of emails from our community. There have been so many interesting and thought-provoking questions that we’ve decided to create a series dedicated to answering the most frequently asked each week. This week’s question is about Vanguard and VTSAX and comes from David
Simple Tips for Online Security I recently chatted with a friend in the cyber security field about some of the common-sense online security practices I follow, and he thought it was a good 80/20 analysis of low-hanging fruit to get the vast majority of the benefits of being safe online without
Taking Action is the Goal The (not so subtle) secret behind the FI Weekly newsletter is this: My entire goal is to inspire you to take life-changing action. And it starts small, one little change after another, until your life has radically transformed for the better. Last week I linked
4 Years of Consistent Action Jen wrote in last week with an email detailing consistent action taken over the last 4+ years of listening to ChooseFI and I wanted to copy it here verbatim: “Long time listener from episode 1, but a first-time contributor. Our family has made countless 1%
Speculation or Investment? My good friend Chris Hutchins had Andy Rachleff, the co-founder of Wealthfront, on his podcast All the Hacks recently and it was a truly phenomenal episode. You’ll likely see some more quotes from this episode in coming editions of the FI Weekly, but I wanted to start with Andy’s
Benefits of Board Games It’s no secret that my family loves to play board games. We talk about board games frequently on the podcast, but thought I’d bring it to the FI Weekly in a little more depth. Simply put, board games have made us a better family. They’ve led to
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