The casino wants everybody in the casino to see people winning. Therefore: Folks who adjust their spending to inflation see there relative (not absolute) standard of living fall with time. I love the content here on the site and am buying your book this afternoon. I want to grow the pools, then maximize them for tax-efficiency, charitable giving, and to benefit my heirs. How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part IV: I become a Landlord. The books arrived a bit over a week ago. And so, it became very popular. Focus on paying off the debt first. However the downside is what we are seeing now. VTSAX since 2000 seems to have averaged around 7.8% (maybe I got this wrong). I am looking forward to hearing from you. Sharing your content in an educational manner could provide a lot of value. Ive been following you for at least 6 months, subscribed to get your new posts on my personal emailI finally decided to reach out and went to reply and noticed the email address was donotreply! Gerry Anderson UFO Unstoppable Derren Nesbitt Autograph Card DN1 Craig Collins. Ive always enjoyed reading your blog and and I appreciate what you do. You're going to furnish it and most people when they buy a house are buying bigger space than what they were renting. So, it would be the international stuff that is the most obvious. Im just sick about this bull market and thinking I made such a stupid error. I finally found you because Chris foound Fritz- The Unholy Alliance is reunited! In your 80s and 90s, not so useful. Maintaining independence and editorial freedom is essential to our mission of empowering investor success. Please let me know if youre up for itall I need is a yeshere or by email would work. You are my hero! 17:47-23:40 J.L.'s advice on investing: the simple things are the most worth it. I think that's a great idea as a money lesson for your children. Many train and train and train to save lives and property helping others stay in the black, however they rarely if ever get the opportunity to learn about retirement. We are your age, but not as smart, when 2008 came around, we panicked after losing 44% of our nest egg of $800,000 I pulled it, put it all into bonds and left it there until today. What better person to feature on my blog than you. Thanks. I immediately called Vanguard (told them the best marketing plan they could ever have was to buy 5000 of your book and distribute to seniors in college) I opened an IRA and started transferring all my 401Ks that were sitting inactive in bonds. have around 95K in 401k, started 2012. this is in addition to my non-US investment. I had done my own mix of funds and had kept it untouched for about 10 years. Collins: Christine, to be honest, I don't remember talking about that on my blog. When I came across your book, it seemed to me everyone should read it. So, I am sort of broken myself of the addiction. Waiting and hoping my asset allocation and withdrawal strategy are strong enough to withstand the worst of the storms ahead. They may not want to listen . I plan on investing a major chunk of my savings in the coming days. $6360 is a lot, especially since with our high-deductabel plan well be paying it all out of pocket. Please, give me a respond if you are interested in it. But if it goes that far, that you cannot afford the goods which constitute a modest normal life, there might be a problem anyway. As for the US market, it was already well established by the time indexing arrived in 1975. So here's what I have come up with: I will share this system with 20 individuals and those slots will be offered by auction. It's the American tradition. Please email if so. But I say, if you read my book, or you try to read my book, and your eyes are still glazing over, and this is just not something you want to deal with, then I think a target-date fund is probably a pretty good solution. And if you're an investment professional, there's less opportunity to get a bigger part of the clients' money out of them. I noticed you commented frequently over there and its one of my favorite blogs. Corpl. That said, please feel free to ping me when you have something you think would be of particular interest. Looking to minimize taxes and help to grow his money for retirement. Being that I am not sure as to whether I will have enough income to max out my 2023 IRA contributions, do you recommend saving what I have now to invest with my IRA next year or investing now with my brokerage account? She was in college and interested in anything but investing. How did you originally find your way here? In fact, I've come to say these days that I've spent every dime that has ever come into my possession, and I spend it almost immediately. I just wanted to let you know that as of November 2018 VTSMX is no longer available. During the 1930s, in the depression, the government made a concerted effort to help people get into homes, because they were concerned about political unrest. I dont want money ou attention, just spread the info in my country. Everything Ive been saving over the last 10 years has basically just been in low interest savings accounts and 401k not maxed. 1. I believe you said that one of your most popular and controversial posts is about why homes are almost always a bad investment. I acknowledge this. Ten days ago, I updated our FIRE spreadsheet and, seeing that we just exceeded our F-you money goal by $1,000, for the first time in my adult life, I felt free. I had a question I wanted to ask and went to the Ask jlcollinsnh but I see that section is closed for now. I'm Christine Benz, director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar. Or should I keep it with Fidelity and invest in FZROX? Im interested to see what your thoughts on this are. Scott Vleeschouwer. Nor do I have any idea (other than Google) as to where you might turn. Wed like to share more about how we work and what drives our day-to-day business. What I mean is augment the information in the book to address some important asides and create a condensed version (maybe you already have one in this: https://jlcollinsnh.com/2011/06/08/how-i-failed-my-daughter-and-a-simple-path-to-wealth/, starting with It starts with nine basics. Collins: I would just clarify, I don't say avoid homeownership. It was great. I think if you change that and said 4% guideline, then you're good, because 4% is not a hard and fast rule. Im putting together a list of really influential books. When I married my wife 4 years ago, she had an incredible amount of high-interest debt from years of bad money-management and putting degrees on credit cards. Stocks Part XVII: What if you can't buy VTSAX? In a taxable account when you move from one investment company to another you have to sell what you currrently own and to buy the new investments. Thank you so much for writing this book. Stocks -- Part VI: Portfolio ideas to build and keep your wealth, Stocks -- Part II: The Market Always Goes Up, Stocks -- Part V: Keeping it simple, considerations and tools, Stocks -- Part XXXV: Investing for Seven Generations, Annual Louis Rukeyser Memorial Market Prediction Contest, How I Lost Money in Real Estate before it was Fashionable, Fun with numbers: Historic Stock Market Returns, Lets talk about whats up with Bonds, and what ever else youd like to ask me, Case Study #17:Buying into the market right before a Bear, Case Study #16: Helping dad with an inheritance. I first ended up here because I was looking at purchasing some Vanguard funds (one to start a Roth IRA for my wife ended up with VTIVX, another to throw in some money we probably wont need for another 3 years or more ended up with VBIAX) and got sidetracked. will be prepared to help our daughters with college so I bought your I was a case study of yours, #11 I think, a small business owner, back around 2015 or so. under your original comment here: https://jlcollinsnh.com/2011/06/03/my-short-attention-span/, youre gonna have to start reading this blog a lot closer, my friend. Your thoughts on home ownership were particularly well put IMO. So we can confirm if any of the FIRE students stick to the basic rules, they will get there. Hey Jim I recently wrote a story about FIRE where we mentioned your blog: https://www.newretirement.com/retirement/fire-financial-independence-retirement-early/. Case Study #10: Should Josiah buy his parents a house? We made progress on our own, but really got focused when we read Simple Path To Wealth along with Quit Like A Millionaire. Readers from all over have added their insights. What are your ideas about this, given the recent changes? If you are interested in our proposal, please contact me at your earliest convenience via email and we can discuss it in further detail. Yes, the markets have been down, but we will come out of this mess and the economy will recover. 1 in 20, and think of all of those management expenses that got paid out as well! Why have you not chosen to do that? I even taught a career development course on how to interview, write a resume and dress for work. Im putting together a project for other young people based on books recommended by all the successful people around me. I wonder if working in the ad game causes some sort of DNA alteration that induces automobile masochism. But now Im curious. Thanks. Thanks for your interest, but we do not publish sponsored articles. I hate fees (and now that Im educated, taxes). Too cold. Since you have written so much on helping people take control of their investments, I wanted to share with you a paper I have written on financial advisor disclosures. Thoughts? Collins: But I do agree with that. Maybe the real wage growth flows into products or new versions of products which no one really needs? Active 401k is (and has been) in an S&P index fund. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Hi James L. Collins from Wilmette! Perhaps you could ask them for a bulk discount? We want to help our fellow students be prepared for the future. Ive sent you a PM. Hey, gimme a break. How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part I: Impossibly Naive. Ptak: As you point out, sometimes people can get lucky in the property market. My questions are: Now I am off to read more of your musings.. Other than most of it is informative Only MOST of it??!! Katharina.loix ad gmail.com. What is your take on a possible currency crisis? What is the best place for a 70 year old to place some money into investments. I was looking at VSTAX on the vanguard site, and see that it shows a minimum investment of $10,000. We are a literary agency in Japan and have got a Japanese publisher interested in your book, THE SIMPLE PATH TO WEALTH(1st edition). How do I send it? A home is where you live.. Mr Why925 from whyninetofive. Since I have no idea when these runs will happen for which and when, I am content to hold them all. Ive read dozens of finances books, but you and Kristy change our familys fate, for which we are deeply grateful. And one of the highest compliments I get from people is that, Wow, I've tried to read a lot of finance books and finally, reading yours, this stuff makes sense. So, that's who I'm writing for. I was buying what was most important to me. I bought the first one, a 72 Mark IV back in 84, sold it in 1988. Today I found the Earn and Invest episode you recorded with DocG back in March 2020 Are we overreacting? Surprise.. our bill was $6382. Lets get some coffee in Amsterdam . You note that the market usually goes up. The main character, Erik, is a fan. It was not your intention, but your idea created a monster for me. I recommend VAIAX . When I compare the two buckets of money both are invested the same (VTSAX) and neither have an RMD. So, as my daughter likes to tease me today, says, You know, Dad, if I'd listened to you, there'd be no blog, there'd be no blog.. A huge thanks for any feedback in advance. Since I planning to invest for the long term Im afraid that the dollar will be deflated against the shekel in the future. Thanks so much for writing, and congratulations on the awesome turnaround in only four years. I guess its better than stock picking, but does this enough of a diversification? Im sort of retired and he is still working a very full time job. . So, that's a new expense and tends to be a big one. The question refers to the so called safe rate of withdrawal: It is mostly supposed, that people adjust their withdrawals to inflation. Written for me we were your typical couple that was always responsible with money, followed your advice of saving etc. More and more I see my work plagiarized and stolen. Nightmare on Wall Street: Will the Blood Bath Continue? but, better late than never right? If you bought a house 20 years ago in Detroit, you'd probably have a very different story. As a high school principal of a small school, I look to get each graduating senior a giftits typically a book. Now the question I have is we have around $100 k to invest in taxable account. : There are going to be a few people who are going to make a lot of money, which is always the case with speculation. NO MORE doubting myself, you have solidified my strategy once and for all. I am a editor of Business Today Megazine in Taiwan, nice to get in touch with you. And in my view, the fact that it happened to be a pandemic, while especially tragic, because of the deaths that it caused, it was just one more kind of thing that can trigger a crash. How to investment in the VTSAX (USA Market), if its not available in Australia. A Guided Meditation for When the Stock Market Is Dropping, 7 Days in Heaven: or Why Slowing Down Will Get You There Sooner, Chautauqua 2019 - UK & Portugal - Tickets Now Available, Car Talk: An update on Steve and looking at Leafs. Do you recommend moving it to VSTAX right away or waiting until the next crash is imminent? Was in touch with Anna previously but it didnt work out. Read every post in the stock series. Opinions expressed are as of the date of recording. So, it kind of depends on the phase of your life you're in at any given moment. If not I thank you for taking the time to read this message all the same. COLLINS. Justin. Spend less than you earn invest the surplus avoid debt. JL Collins, and Ramit Sethi. In many posts you disavow market timing, and buying stocks on sale seems on first sight to be a form of market timing. If you have a comment or a guest idea, please email us at TheLongView@Morningstar.com. For instance, when you have children and that sort of thing. The Trinity Study and Portfolio Success Rates, StocksPart XXVII: Why I Don't Like Dollar Cost Averaging. I hope you keep writing! I just wanted to send a quick email to follow up with you about my message from last week. J L Collins The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life Kindle Edition by JL Collins (Author), Mr. Money Mustache (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition 8,954 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 449.00 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Great on Kindle I will forward your contact info to my agent. Jim, Id like to invite you to a speaking engagement with a personal finance club in the greater DC area in early September. Open up Index funds! You can, but since you are under age 59.5 this will be a taxable event and youll pay a 10% penalty. thank you so much. ($24K)! Instead of rolling fidelity to my new plan I was thinking of rolling to the IRA. Seriously though, I have never felt this liberated I grew up in poverty in England and have never felt secure financially you have taken away the horrible feeling of ending up back where I started. And depending on the price point, and Tesla things came down pretty dramatic recently, I might be looking at something like Tesla. And I think that's another stock that's been beaten down recently, and I imagine probably has some potential. Whatever your schedule will allow. Maybe you should read through his posts or book. Then we started binging on any blogs FIRE related. I think I have the explanation! I bought your book and loved it, thank you! If you dont have those things please stay clear of all the retire early marketing stories. So, that's why I diverted 50% of my income over the years to my investments. It was just the reason du jure. Please advise. PER YEAR $ 39,403.80 Wait for them to fall again? But I have a few questions left, not very important, but that have been bugging me: 1) What does NH at the end of your website means? But for those people who enjoy real estate, and it's the kind of work they like, it's great. Well, you are here now, and I have 220 notes of advice to process and implement. Well also pay cash so that comes to ($xxx 20%). Luckily, I am mechanically inclined and like hobbies, so I have a ready-made excuse when I am experiencing any Spitfire downtime. A fortune! But when do you actually sell the gain/stock to have that money, or do you just hold it as long as possible? Loved the book btw. I am grateful to you. Regardless, it kept me out of trouble to not drink and yeah I could save money this way too! And I am taking your advice, especially regarding Vanguard. Would you recommend a portfolio allocation between stocks (VTSAX) and bonds (VBTLX) that considers past years performance as a variable or that would be considered as timing the market (e.g., increasing the overall percentage of bonds X/2 percentage points every year that the stock index grows X% and reset the allocation every time there is a negative annual change)? Also I am planning to invest $30,000 every year in taxable account apart from 401k and roth (We are maximizing both of these from last year) till we achieve FI. I am a great fan of you from Italy and wonder when is expected to have available the italian version of your book. Sure enough, it led me here. There was this comment in marketwatch that recommend this site and I find topics here are both informative and entertaining. I am also sure, that it is wise, not to be all to dependent on the shiny illusion, that consumption will make you happy. If I own a treasury issued by the United States government that is good for 10 years and pays a 3% yield, I can be assured that I will earn my 3% coupon every year for 10 years and then receive my initial investment back at the end of the term (unless the government goes away or defaults and we have a much larger problem). I am launching a non-profit group in the NH seacoast whose goal is to build financial resilience via small-group workshops. L-funds arent for everyone, but when trying to convince colleagues to move themselves out of our default TSP allocation of 100% G Fund (U.S. Treasury securities), they sure are a great starting place. I feel like I dont have time to be conservative. Nice to hear from you and glad to know how well things turned out. Because the moment you're invested, whether you dollar cost average in or you lump sum, you are always at risk of the market dropping. The main bonds we have are government-issued. Finally, I have a no-nonsense guide to securing a bright future for us and our new child. My whole family will sure benefit from it. I cant thank you enough for what youve put out here and I hope one day our lives cross paths. Therefore, I would think that it might be more advantageous today to consume the ROTH for living in retirement, and instead plan to give the taxable money to ones heirs. I hope I have been able to do justice to your work, in some small measure. This is Rachel Choi at Eric Yang Agency, one of the leading literary agencies in Korea. My expectations were confirmed, but not to the degree that you were let down. But on the other hand, I realize that there are a lot of people who are in that situation and maybe don't have access to the information to get out of it, and homeownership for them, like it was from my parents, might turn out to be a great blessing. Thank you so much for consolidating and organizing your blog posts into a great book! I had accumulated the princely sum of $5,000, and I was working in downtown Chicago at the time. And it's a book, by the way, that will sit on my desk going forward just as a reference, because there are a lot of things that people say, What's the Federal Reserve, JL? And I kind of blunder around trying to explain that, because I've never really thought about it. s.e., lov 4 ing wife of Sell Collins. I was also an English major at Wabash College (20 years ago). 1) Could a Dow Jones index, as opposed to S&P 500, be used to avoid investing in tobacco and alcohol companies? If you can buy them commission free and if you can resist the urge to trade, they work just fine. Hope to hear from you soon! A lot of it is due to a temporary stress of going through an annoying and expensive divorce but much all has to do with my lack of financial awareness. One question if you have time. You usually reference Vanguards and just call it a day, and then maybe eventually add bond funds for ballast. Doctors especially need this. Often they buy stock in these not so ethical companies so they can vote and even elect there own reps to the companies board of directors. Yahoo and Google only seem to start at year 2000 and Vanguard only gives up to 10 year performance that I could find. The course takes kids through budgeting, saving, credit and investing. Im keeping this roth IRA for my kids (education or whatever they want or myself as well just in case they dont need it at the time), investing horizon of next 15 yr at about 150-200 per month, starting the fun with an initial investment of $10K. I mean, its still part of India. Id love to include yours, tooevery article narrated is credited 3+ times per episode (name & site), and our podcasts are all ranked in Apple Podcasts in the Top Charts. There are several posts on other FI blogs dealing with this issue that may help. Is owning stocks (whatever they may be) of companies you dont support something you wrestle with? Blessings for your continued work and impact. But that is only a guess. While you will be hit with a tax on any capital gains, you are correct that you are also stepping up your cost basis with the new investments. You bought a second Spitfire after owning the first??!! StocksPart XIII: The 4% Rule, Withdrawal Rates and How Much Can I Spend Anyway? So, even more of a connection! The Boglehead book is very USA centric but some amazingly simple threads that come out of it that are like universal laws of nature, like gravity, applies to us all wherever we live. One Taiwanese publisher is interested in the complex Chinese rights of The Simple Path to Wealth, could you please ask your agent to contact me if the rights are still available? She sees how excited I get, and loves that I am really planning for the first time in my life. Sounds like a great mission. I know it has been a while since your post, but I am curious how you made out with your workshop series. This is what is known as " The 4% Rule ". Something to add if you ever do a new edition of the book is to point out that your (home) currency is not a reliable arbiter of wealth. David B. I have a financial question related to a health issue.where would it make sense to post it? Its free and worth twice as much. So, far in a way number one. And there's nothing wrong with indulgences. 4:21-6:09 The philosophy of financial independence. My observation is that with other index fun providers, even Vanguard, there is a premium charged for the added convenience of the L-funds. Start with negotiating the bill itself, before discussion of how youll pay. What this audiobook provides her, and others who are less than finance-obsessed, is a simple . 2) In brazil we dont have a total market index fund? Happened across your website via MMM. Some of these organizations can create the ethical change you want. I know you dont recommend investing in a single company, but Microsofts stock has been performing exponentially for the past 10 years. I live in Denver, and the construction around here is completely amazing. Other half not impressed, clings to the old traditional view, does not want to give up comfort of owned home for freedom, prefers to stay in gilded cage. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for sharing your thoughts. My father would have done better had he learned about the stock market than just the house. Im in the unenviable position of trying to time my way back in. What would YOU do in this situation? I have a weekly podcast and would love to have you as a guest on it. Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Woman in White Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Collins - From The Simple Path to Wealth PDF: "In the dark, bewildering, trap-infested jungle of misinformation and opaque riddles that is the world of investment, JL Collins is the fatherly wizard on the side of the path, offering a simple map, warm words of encouragement and the tools to forge your way through with confidence. But I stepped away from it because it just was too much like work and it was not the kind of work that I personally enjoyed. I am already deeply overloaded with other sites I try to keep tabs on. The second comment is related to the power of Qualified Charitable Distributions available now consistently for a Traditional IRA, which can go to fulfill the RMD annual requirement. This is not just a Betterment thing. It is an actively managed vanguard mutual fund but much lower fees comparing to other actively managed funds. I am surprised that some people think race even matters here! So if you want to follow my advice on that, VTI is your fund. I have been in Betterment for several years and have built this up fairly well, however, when I tried to move a good portion of this into Vanguard (VTSAX) last year I found that Betterment doesnt facilitate any type of transfer and I would have to cash out and re-invest into Vanguard. Mail clerk, ground man for a tree crew, landscaper, ad agency founder, account executive, ad space salesman,investment officer, entrepreneur, consultant, sales trainer, speaker, writer, radio talk show host, publisher and group publisher. 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