FIRE

1. 9 July 2021

   What does financial security mean to you?

   Most of us want to feel financially secure. How we feel about our financial situation is highly personal. I often speak with people worth millions who are worried about their financial security, and w…

2. 12 June 2020

   Retiring early is expensive (and so is private education)

   Every time I run the numbers, the cost of private secondary education stuns me. Retiring early is expensive too. Neither is wrong — just know what you're trading off.

3. 28 February 2020

   Is “early retirement” another pot at the end of the rainbow?

   What does "retirement" actually mean to you? For many of the people I talk to, early retirement isn't really about stopping work — it's about changing their relationship to work, or getting freedom to…

4. 11 August 2017

   Financial advice and the FIRE (“financial independence, retire early”) phenomenon

   The FIRE movement — financial independence, retire early — is alluring. The core lesson is simple: increase your savings rate, live frugally, and you can retire decades early. I'm sympathetic to it, a…