It is that time of the year when here (in the UK) we get a new ISA allowance. Amazingly (given some of the wider taxation rules) we still get to […]
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Dividend Reinvestment – does it matter what strategy you have ? (Part 4)
In Part1, Part 2 & Part 3 I have looked at my initial idea, expanded that to a wider and deeper base and finally looked at a full on simulation […]
Read moreDividend Reinvestment – does it matter what strategy you have ? (Part 3)
In Part 1 & Part 2 I just mused on an idea about dividend re-investment (over a relatively short time period and few holdings). in Part 2 I looked at […]
Read moreDividend Reinvestment – does it matter what strategy you have ? (Part 2)
In part 1, I started to look at whether it mattered when I re-invested a dividend received in a stock and found it makes little difference (certainly if the same […]
Read moreDividend Reinvestment – does it matter what strategy you have ? (Part 1)
I have written before about re-investing in solid income bearing, slightly unfashionable stocks. I had an interest in seeing what happened over time to some renewable companies (long before I […]
Read moreAre we going Cashless ?
I recently went over our spending and budget for the year. One of the things I put down was a reduced estimate of cash use (£125 pcm, so £1,500 over […]
Read moreLife is Too Short – Forgive & Move On
Today will be a 2nd kind of surreal afternoon. First was last year as we unlocked in the summer. — I met my first wife at a good mates birthday […]
Read morePersonal Investment Policy
In the same way a Statement of Wishes (SoW) is meant as a direction to executors of an estate (ie direction but not cast in stone), I rather have the […]
Read moreA blast from the past – Economics circa 2011
Just looking at some old stuff and came across a post I made in November 2011. Ireland was just starting to grow out of its last crash (partly by lowering […]
Read moreTime to Change the Car (Part 2)
I started thinking about changing my car in the summer of 2019. I wrote in November of that year about how really I should consider my car as a FIRE […]
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