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Jan 19, 2011: Vanguard's chairman and CEO Jack Brennan has nearly three decades of valuable experience in investing at this great firm. He has observed that successful long term investors share some common traits. Here is our spin to his observations.
Plan Ahead: Successful retirees planned well ahead of time to meet their retirement's financial needs and they walked the talk triumphantly. This

Nov 22, 2011:Unless we’re already embarrassingly wealthy as we read this, it stands to reason that we know it’s going to take some doing on our part to retire at the level of comfort which we envision. Gone (for the most part) are the days that saw our parents and grandparents work at a single company for thirty or forty years and retire with a nice, cushy pension. They didn’t need to worry

Nov 17, 2011: Let us look ahead into the future when we are about to retire. All these years we have toiled hard, made sacrifices and invested diligently to make our nest egg grow. Now it is time to enjoy a new dimension of life. Relaxation! How much should we draw out of our nest egg so that it lasts through our entire retirement?

We are well aware that the stock market is too risky when there

Feb 24, 2011: We can learn some basic tenets of investing from Anne Scheiber, who was an auditor at IRS and went on to become a multi-millionaire. Scheiber had a law degree, but because she was a woman, she believed that she had been thwarted in her desire to move up to a better job position at the IRS. She decided to get back by saving until she had a fortune and never give a penny of her

Nov 04, 2011: For those of us who want to retire comfortably and do so while we still have the energy to enjoy our free time, personal vices must be kept to a minimum. Eliminate or at least put off indulging in bad habits that will cost you money in both the short and long term, and you will reach your goal of a relaxing retirement that much sooner.

Some of these weaknesses, such as

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Jul 05, 2010: Most of us want to be millionaires. And if we can be one while we are young, it's a double whammy! After all, the best time to enjoy our wealth is while we are young and healthy. In the process of chasing wealth, if we run out of time, the "millionaire" tag is not that attractive, isn't it?

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Jun 09, 2010: With increasing price of food and gas, it has become a challenge to save a substantial amount of our salaries to fund our retirement. The subprime mortgage fiasco has reduced the market value of our homes. Consequently, unless we have stellar credit records, it is becoming increasingly

Oct 30, 2010: At times the fast pace of our city lives appear stifling making us long for a slower pace of life with more exposure to clean air and green vegetation. Our souls yearn for a simple life which is in greater harmony with Mother Nature. Of late our work related health problems have been making us yearn, almost every morning, for a more relaxed life with greater freedom.

So we were

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March 30, 2010: In recent months we came across some disturbing news about 401(k) accounts getting looted.

What on earth are you talking about?

Imagine this: You are about to retire in few months. You and your wife have made plans for some dream vacations that you always wanted to take. Then one fine

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Nov 24, 2009: One afternoon we were musing about the nature of our financial lives. We were wondering as to how we could visualize the entire financial game symbolically that would help us understand it explicitly yet would be easy to remember. After some quiet moments the picture of a tree dawned on the

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]One of the questions that needs to be addressed now is the impact of the present recession on our retirement plans. So far a bull market and a portfolio designed according to basic money rules gave many the hope of retiring early. But the onset of a bear market and the current recession have erased a

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Oct 20, 2008: The subprime mortgage fiasco's blow to the economy along with recent failures in the investment banking industry have led to closure of several big companies. Consequently we are seeing huge layoffs and a rise in unemployment rates. Times are difficult for those who have lost their jobs and also

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Today we present a spectacular case study of early retirement in response to one of our reader's specific question.You've shown excellent examples of retiring early via wealth through entrepreneurship, wealth gained by working for a fortunate dot.com company, wealth saved by not having kids and leading a

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]In our popular post "Top Resources For Early Retirement Planning," we had presented a short profile of Billy and Akaisha Kaderli. They are well known for having reached FIRE really early. Today while browsing through Kiplinger archives we found a detailed case study profiling Billy and Akaisha's early

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).] Recently when we wrote about "Three Good Habits of Successful Retirees," we saw that it was important for retirees to grow their investments. To keep one's real purchasing power intact over time it is necessary to beat inflation by earning a return rate above it. And this holds true for a retiree's

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).] Retirement planning is one of the most important things that we will ever do. Despite its importance, some people procrastinate because they worry it will be hard, or stressful. Well now we can relax since Etrade has come up with a visual, interactive, and easy to use online software for retirement planning

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."- Mark Twain
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