Thanks. If the Japanese rights are still available, could you please send us a pdf for their review? But if you want that, Id just go with VTWSX/VT. Chautauqua 2014 preview, closing up for travel and other random cool things that caught my eye of late. For more: http://www.caniretireyet.com/long-term-care-insurance-why-we-arent-buying-it/, 3. Dow, S&P, other? Your spouse encourages it. We used to get down to RI on a regular basis our daughter went to URI. Case Study #8: Ron's mother - she's doin' all right! advice I wish I had gotten long ago. The key distinction is that one is taxable when withdrawn (the Taxable bucket) as compared to the Roth. Check out the interview schedule/archive thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/65tdwj/schedule_for_semimonthly_rfinancialindependence/. Real return is less than 4%. VTSAX was created in 2000, but you use other stocks as representations of the market before then? It doesnt go to print until the Spring, but I wanted to send you the Pdf of my pre print version. Obviously, it proved pivotal to the success that you've had. Could you please forward my address to your agent? So during this 10 year period, I know that at least a part of my portfolio will be positive no matter what my investments in the stock market are doing (ie a good hedge). However the downside is what we are seeing now. ). For some people buying a house IS the right emotional decision and so long as they are cognizant of the associated cost there is no intrinsically right or wrong choice. And so, it became very popular. And depending on the price point, and Tesla things came down pretty dramatic recently, I might be looking at something like Tesla. I love the content here on the site and am buying your book this afternoon. Sir, My name is MSG Reggie Kalous and am currently deployed. Hello Mr. Collins. Was in touch with Anna previously but it didnt work out. Therefore, 1,250,0000.04 = 50,000. I love your simplicity and straightforwardness. I am currently working as a software engineer, but I am always fascinated by investing research stuff. Finally, we'd love to get your feedback. And from that point of view, for somebody who lacks discipline or doesn't even think about it, like my parents, owning a house long term can wind up being a valuable asset. Thanks again, I recommend your blog to everyone I care about. I realise your a busy man so I will keep this short , I live in Scotland (U.K.) and my current investment holdings are:-, Vanguard: target retirement fund And there are a few things in life that are more intoxicating than choosing a company, buying the stock, and being proven right and watching it go up. What does VTI stand for and is this still the next best option to invest in if you dont have the 2-3K or the 10 K. Im not in America and prefer to invest in the U.S. Vanguard rather than the Australian so I dont miss out on the global market. Can I email you directly? Like you, I wish Id had my book then. Naturally there are some exceptions. I'm hoping to double those payments if possible. have you had a chance to look at how Indian mutual funds have performed? . Scott. Should they invest in 100% total index fund? Better you than me. I dont want money ou attention, just spread the info in my country. 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. 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. InvestED, hosted by hedge fund manager and New York Times best-selling author Phil Town and his daughter Danielle, is the perfect stock market education for beginners. Hamster. I have really enjoyed reading through your website. Just be patient. However, it took years for the research to confirm this, and for it to be accepted and believed. My fianc and I were recently told about your book from family friends of ours Scott and Taylor from Playing with FIRE Documentary! It was more a slow, gradual education and understanding. Or should I keep it with Fidelity and invest in FZROX? Sure, as long as you cite jlcollinsnh.com as the source, go ahead. The Lies That Save Us Broken Heart 1 Jl Redington is available in our digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly. Case Study #9: Lars -- maximizing some good fortune and considering "dollar cost averaging". I have a chapter in the book called the unacceptable burden. I have never listened to any other audio books so many times. You didnt account for inflation(and fees, which are harder). Too cold. LOL, [I had intended to just email you this, but I couldnt find your email address.]. If yes, could you send us the PDF for further review? 10: VGTSX (just hedging more than i should) And more. Houses are an expensive indulgence, not an investment. This threw me off. If so, can you send me the pdfs or sample copies for submission? "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. Anyone can pick up your book or John Bogles or Charley Ellis and invest their hard earned money themselves and outperform between 70-80% of the so-called professional investors. May this act of kindness grow huge dividends in your life financial and otherwise. My questions are: I am as well Benz: You alluded to indexing earlier. I plan to bring it forward in a coming post. "Truly Passive Real Estate Investing," by JL Collins, jlcollinsnh.com, Nov. 28, 2018. 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. I am looking forward to hearing from you. Many ethical funds advertise their avoidance of porn companies however Im unaware of any even in the S&P 500. You may have said this in the book, but I may have misunderstood it, my apology. Best wishes, I just purchased your book and read it all in one sitting it was a fascinating read that pulled together a lot of great thinking for me, and helped me to clarify my own path to FI. Although as Im just back from six weeks in Ecuador Im a bit late responding! Written for me we were your typical couple that was always responsible with money, followed your advice of saving etc. 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. Could you please ask your agent to contact me? He made Benzingas list The Best Investing Books for Beginners. Check out the link here https://www.benzinga.com/investing/best-investing-books-for-beginners/. 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. I was notified of MMM when I was 18 (by an amazing friend of mine) and I sigh still thinking of where Id be now (28 years old) if I fully applied the three golden rules of: Spendings < Earnings (50% or more), investing surplus and avoiding DEBT. Yahoo and Google only seem to start at year 2000 and Vanguard only gives up to 10 year performance that I could find. I have a pre-tax portfolio (1/3 wealth) and and after tax portfolio (2/3 of wealth). It is a very personal call. A big Hi! All best wishes. They are justifiably famous. With that in mind. Despite my relatively young age and living in a different country, I like to think Ive gone through a wide variety of financial and investment experiences during my adult life. I just finished your book, thank you for writing so much valuable information in one place! Weve worked the program, simplified our lives, retired a mountain of debt, and hit our number. They just feel like unique experiences looking back. If you find anything useful here, feel free to share it with your classes. That is not bad. If not I thank you for taking the time to read this message all the same. This time, it's a pandemic. And my response was, every market crash and market crashes, in my view, are something that are a normal part of the process. So, for instance, you can type into the internet, and I've seen these articles on a regular basis, of how much house does $1 million buy in various parts of the United States? There are two options for owning fixed assets: you can buy the asset yourself and own directly or you can own through a bond fund that is similar to an index fund that purchases a basket of bonds/ treasuries. So, those are just some. i think i would have made different choices. Thank you for your very kind words, ajay. Download The Simple Path to Wealth PDF book free by J.L. Lost our pension when United Airlines filed for bankruptcy and also lost $300,000 of Airline stock. If you have already addressed this elsewhere then my apologies, but I am really curious about your thoughts on this. Painfully, I will have to consider the paid sales charges as costly mistakes. Wow, thats an interesting perspective. However . I got crazy about saving over the last few years, and was able to open Vanguard accounts for my kids (100% VTSAX), while continuing to add to my own Vanguard account. Thank you so much! Thanks for all your content! I just moved quite a bit of money into VTSAX! By the same token, if the market just stays flat, your result will be less because it took you longer to put that money to work. But that was over in a month or six weeks or something. and obtain financial freedom so that my husband has less burden and we That was by the realtor board (imagine that?!) J L Collins The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life Paperback - June 18 2016 by J L Collins (Author), Mr. Money Mustache (Foreword) 8,587 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition $9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 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 call myself Mr Why925 based on my blog whyninetofive.com . At least Ill then have my 1200. Any thoughts would be immensely appreciated. His blog at jlcollinsnh is a "must read" for anyone interested in financial blogs, and is read by over 100,000 fans on a regular basis. One Taiwanese publisher is interested in the complex Chinese rights of The Simple Path to Wealth, and would like to learn more about the book. You seem like a regular guy, and I could really relate to your perspective on investing. I know you dont recommend investing in a single company, but Microsofts stock has been performing exponentially for the past 10 years. Consider it done. ..glad you made your way here and very glad somebody is teaching HS kids personal finance! I started selling flyswatters door-to-door and picking up empty pop bottles from the side of the road to turn in for the 2-cent deposit. I am currently a college student and began investing a couple of years ago. You are my hero! $5105 cash Does this mean that I can only invest in them with a minimum of $10K ? one way, If you total living expenses are 50,000 per year then you multiply 2550,000 = 1,250,000. Thanks for the kind words and for taking the time to comment. Glad you found your way over here! I am outside the US now so unable to see you at FinCon, but probably will attend this in the future. Collins: Well, so the first part of that I was in the magazine publishing business, business-to-business magazines, which of course have little or nothing to do with investing. approach that spoke to me as I prefer things to be as simple as In fact, I make fun of in in many places, most recently in my April Fools post here: https://jlcollinsnh.com/2020/04/01/why-i-will-no-longer-be-writing-this-blog/, 1. Im curious if you use Vanguard or another online broker/site for your personal investing? Its possible? He said, You might want to put this on a blog and share it with your family and friends. This was in 2011. Any thoughts? May 29, 2020 at 8:53 pm. Anyways, enjoying the pain of my 2nd Spit, only minor issues to date, after a couple of thousand miles. So, buy VTSAX, buy as much as you can, whenever you can and hold forever. Hi Can I also have a contact with your agent? Thank you. Looking at the full 20 year picture, the best calculation I have is that Ive managed a 3.7 to 3.8% return over the full 20 year period (accounting for 2% inflation and dividends reinvested). And I'm old enough to have lived in that investing world before Jack Bogle and fortunately after Jack Bogle. I do not know. If yes.. feel free to reach us. Who knew that a four-year-old would want to go through The Wall Street Journal with you, but there you go. Thats the least I can do. Nice work. Please email me on my email below. Also, Ive decided its the perfect graduation present for anyone in my life. Case Study #4: Using the 4% rule and asset allocations. You have a simple concept and explain it very well. I went about this FI stuff in a different way (I grew up in Cicero and after college spent the 80s bouncing around different fun jobs like park ranger). And if you bought a house 20 years ago in San Francisco, you have a great story about how you made a ton of money. Are you concerned that 4% could be too high in an era in which equity valuations are quite high and bond yields are so low? Thanks for the invite to Morocco. There are going to be a few people who are going to make a lot of money, which is always the case with speculation. . And, of course, both of those stocks, they're not value stocks, shall we say? Collins covers a lot of ground in the book, from explaining how the stock market works (in everyday language that you can understand); sharing his own investment strategy; encouraging everyone to. But this is clearly not what happened for you and others recently. Congrats on your retirement,or whatever it is.Im not one of those people who thinks that you have to keep working or you die.I dont get bored easily.I can always find something constructive(or at least amusing)to do.Personally,I could retire right now,and live happily another 40 years without ever thinking I was wasting my life.In fact,quite the opposite.I think work is gonna kill me early,if anything. If you do, I think youll regret leaving such an inappropriate and downright bigoted comment. And I think with the idea that there is a sense in some quarters that this whole pursuing financial independence somehow isn't available to African Americans and their book talks about why it is and how it is, and it does a great job. TOGETHER WITH LUMP SUM (MAXIMUM) $ 200,000.00 And the emotional/financial forces drive you to buying too much house. And Im thankful you put it in blog form because for me, as unethical as it may sound, I can read it at my desk job during slow periods. Worse, they have become even more difficult to read over the past few years. JL Collins' first book, " The Simple Path to Wealth ," was published in 2016 and has been an international best-seller and a Bogleheads favorite. I will offer two seemingly contradictory suggestions and some comments. So, anyway. How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part III: The Battle is Joined. Report DMCA. I really appreciate the insight and speedy response. An entertaining investment book what a concept! Fortunately she is doing better and we are now experiencing sticker shock for the bill. I think if people have been listening, they've concluded buy total stock market index, add bonds as you go along, avoid homeownership. You might consider posting your comment here: https://jlcollinsnh.com/2015/06/02/stocks-part-viii-the-401k-403b-tsp-ira-roth-buckets/, Mr. Collins, Having read your book, I will take your guidance to be VTSAX. In short, it sounds to me like you are thinking about this correctly. I'm taking notes as you're talking and I'm happy to say that we have a couple of these folks already booked on the podcast for the coming months. That helps a lot. Benz: Well, JL, this has been a terrific thought-provoking conversation. I kept the stocks: bonds allocation the same (90% stocks, 10% bonds). Hi:) Is it possible to contact you somehow? and you buy your freedom and your time by virtue of having investments. Thanks for writing your book! Thanks so much! Im married, so reveal wondrous truth to other half. Unfortunately, 20 years ago I was still making my own mistakes. I recently discovered the FI movement and in the process this site. Since Im thinking to publish/submit to a contest/do something that will put it for public ridicule/scrutiny the story he appears, I thought it best to ask for your permission. 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