Recent content by traineeinvestor

Retired in 2013 at 47. Two daughters (both still in school) I still do some very part time consulting on issues I find interesting but the income is irrelevant. Rents, dividends and interest exceed our expenses. FWIW, DW found a job she absolutely loves - we don't need the money but who am I...

The new norm for air travel in this part of the world :facepalm:: https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1467849.html

The Hong Kong Marathon (which offers full marathon, half marathon and 10K) was supposed to be held today but was called off because of the coronavirus outbreak. I went and did my own informal half marathon ... as did a lot of other people. It was good to see a people doing positive things...

Reports from this part of the world are that factories in a number of areas will resume production next week but not in the worst affected areas which will continue under lockdown. Unfortunately, a lot of these reports are conflicting so it's not clear what will or will not happen. ??? Possibly...

Flew down to Bangkok yesterday with DW + daughters for a short holiday. Got a full medical check up at Bumrungrad Hospital this morning – this places is a great advert for medical tourism. I'll pick up the full written report tomorrow but the doctor told me that the only issues are bad...

Paid for the speeding ticked I got on Christmas Day. :facepalm:

Another up vote for a good list but ... ... I have to respectfully disagree with Stage 3 - Debt Freedom. Personally I like using modest amounts of debt for investment purposes and as an inflation hedge and have no plans to change that strategy. For us being debt free is not a goal and is not...

I guess I'm out of touch because in spite of wasting ridiculous mounts of time I still fail to understand why what is basically a bunch of anonymously scripted computer code with a trendy name is worth billions.

Six years into retirement and I'm finding that I enjoy my sporadic part time consulting "work." That fact that I don't have to do anything I don't want to helps but I find I enjoy the academic side of things - it adds to my enjoyment of retirement rather than detracts from it. If it was the...

Mostly self managed. But I've seen enough cases of people losing the plot as they get older so I've put enough money with an external manager to at least cover my daughters' remaining school fees, university and a bit more.

This. With the modification that I make a monthly accrual for taxes and longer term expenses such as home repairs, taxes and a miscellaneous bucket. I also do not include assets which I view as consumption items such as our car and wine sitting in a bonded warehouse which will be consumed with...

Congrats - always great to hear a FIRE success story. My 5 year anniversary was late 2018. It's been a blast all-round (although my expenses have been higher than expected for which I blame my daughters) - 5 of the best years of my life. Like you I seen time on classes (hoping to graduate with...

Living in HK, most places require air travel. We do economy class for local travel and either premium economy or business class for long haul (a lot of flights don't have a first class anymore). In part our choices are more about the fact that (i) I have two deformed vertebrae in my back...

At sub USD150, Alibaba (BABA) is starting to look interesting.

Survived the oral defence of my thesis (on science fiction). Subject to getting my supervisor to sign off on the minor revisions, I should graduate in October. :dance: DW's already telling me I need to find another project. :facepalm: