Recent content by GenghisKhan

Age 44 £1.2M in wealth which at current exchange rates is about $1.6M. Will FIRE in the next few months.

It's been a fabulous few months financially both from a saving and investing perspective. This culminated in me becoming FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT a month or so ago at age 43! I now have 105% of the wealth I believe I need to ensure I never have to w*rk again. With my investment return YTD at...

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Brexit vote resulted in GBP weakening which boosted a portfolio measured in GBP. Even though moving to the Med will stay a 'UK based' investor at least for a few years just in case doesn't work out. GBP: EUR exchange rate used for calculations is worst case average annual (1.123) since...

UK Investor. Up 12.6% YTD. A big positive of the recent increases is that it pushed me over the FI line 2 weeks ago. In total my journey took me 8.7 years. Now I just need to clean up a few loose ends for a Mediteranean FIRE while hopefully avoiding OMY. I should be FIRE'd at age 44 and am...

I keep very accurate financial records and am not quite at FIRE but close with 94% of the FIRE wealth I'll need. Saving has so far contributed 68% and investing 32%. I started investing in late 2007.

UK based investor so was out voting on Thursday. Portfolio up 1.9% on the week. Up 5.5% year to date.

When I was much younger I was lucky enough to be able to live close to an ocean that you could swim/surf/kayak in for a large portion of the year. That is a form of exercise that I want back. Where I live today in the South East of England it is a lifestyle of excessive pace and zero...

Still have my head down helping FIRE approach at a rapid rate. Today I have 92% of the wealth I need for FIRE. Providing Mr Market behaves should be done in a little over 6 months. A couple of observations from my journey so far: - If I hit my FIRE date my saving hard and investing wisely...

To share another perspective I'll jump in with my story. I'm working towards the FIRE in less than 10 years story. I'm also not new to the building of wealth stage as I have 93% of the wealth I think I'll need and unless Mr Market throws a curve ball I'll be done in 6 months. So I know what...

UK based investor here. Good start for me with a YTD +1.7% coming off the back of a +0.9% 2015. Nothing special in my portfolio - plenty of UK, Aus, US, Europe, Japan equity trackers, UK/Europe commercial property, UK Index Linked Gilts, Cash for a home/to tide me through the bad times and a...

Q1 '15 was good to me. Living well below my means and saving the difference between earnings and spending allowed me to increase wealth by 5.7%. On top of that Mr Market also added a further 5.8% to my wealth. I now have 87.2% of the wealth I need for Early Retirement. A year ago it was...

Nominally a 68 stocks : 32 bonds portfolio. UK based so UK shares are my home equity allocation. Up 5.8% for the 1st quarter.

I'm also on a 10 year plan. Current projections show me as being 1.5 years away from FIRE which would be an actual of 9 years. At 42 currently I was a couple of years older than your good self when I woke up to what was possible.

Are you retired? No How old are you when you retire? With a fair wind I should be 44 (42 now) When do you want to retire? When I reach my Number.