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The following is a guest post about ISAs. Individual Savings Accounts, also known as ISAs, are tax efficient savings accounts where you do not have to declare any income from them in the UK. Money is contributed from after tax income, and therefore is not subject to income tax or capital gains tax. Many ISAs [...]

1 Comment Guest on Jan 22nd 2012

Welcome to part 3 of my review of “Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School“! If you don’t have the book yet, there’s a giveaway running across all parts of this book review with 5 copies of the book to be given away in all! Read part one: Book Review [...]

14 Comments Kevin on Jan 10th 2012

Welcome to part 2 of my review of “Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School“! If you don’t have the book yet, there’s a giveaway running across all parts of this book review with 5 copies of the book to be given away in all! Read part one: Book Review [...]

20 Comments Kevin on Jan 3rd 2012

The following is a guest post from Marissa at Thirty Six Months where she talks about getting rid of her student debt and becoming financially independent. It is very unusual to find a graduate student in their 20′s these days without a mountain of debt, regardless of whether they worked through university or not. I [...]

18 Comments Guest on Dec 22nd 2011

Back in June, I had a preview of Andrew Hallam’s new book “Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School“, as well as a pre-order giveaway. I have been waiting since then for a copy of my own so that I could review the book and share my review with you [...]

22 Comments Kevin on Dec 19th 2011

Last week, I talked about the three stages of financial despair. We all want to get out of the rat race, but before we get there, we need to get out of the hole and onto level ground. Financial freedom Financial independence is one of my life-long dreams. I don’t really believe in the “traditional [...]

55 Comments Kevin on Dec 12th 2011

Today I have an interview up on Investorz Blog, an interesting site about investing and life motivation, run by Tony Chou. I discovered Tony’s blog a month or two back with a controversial and thought-provoking post about Warren Buffett. I have gone back to visit many times since! Here are some excerpts from the interview: [...]

5 Comments Kevin on Dec 8th 2011

The following is by Tony Chou, who runs an investment blog where he shares his thoughts on the financial markets. It all started in early 2011. As regular readers might know, I had an SLV position back then. I was bullish about silver, and heavily long. I was also interested in seeing how buying physical [...]

17 Comments Guest on Nov 30th 2011

The following is a guest post by Chris Holdheide. Back a few years ago while working in financial services, one of my jobs was to help people plan for their retirement. As a part of that job I was also required to provide a prospectus, which is a document that explains everything about the fund they [...]

10 Comments Guest on Oct 26th 2011

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