A while ago, one of my Twitter followers sent me the following message: “Hey Banker, any chance you can do a post about your business? I am at the start of my career (early 20s) and entrepreneurship seems enticing, both for the potential to make money for yourself and the doors it can open into …
One of my best friends happens to be a wildly successful real estate investor. Picking up the baton of a family business, he built up a neat little empire of apartment buildings and commercial properties – all by the age of 40. He also happens to hate the stock market. To him, it just doesn’t …
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Ever since starting this blog, I haven’t been shy about sharing my views on real estate investing. On one hand, it is one of the most effective ways to build wealth for retail investors. The first property we bought generated a whopping 19% annualized return over a decade. You simply don’t get to those levels …
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There aren’t many advantages to being an analyst in the investment banking world. You are at the lowest possible point in the pecking order. Hours are long, stress levels high, and social life is non-existent. The one advantage, however, is the timing of the pay cycle. For a variety of reasons, investment banking analysts typically …
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In the personal finance community, you will struggle to find a set of people more vehemently disliked than active money managers. Yours truly certainly shares the sentiment. There are exceptions, of course. Star managers who haven’t (yet) fallen from grace. The rare species who manage to deliver truly superior risk-adjusted returns for their investors. Ultimately, …
Back in my undergrad days, you would struggle to find a more depressing sight than that of accounting major lugging around the latest version of the Income Tax Act. Suffice to say that one look at the 1,000+ page tome (part 1 of 2, no less) was enough to scare this finance major out of …
The Really Boring (And Highly Effective) Way To Get Rich Read More »
In any journey, the half-way mark is always an interesting – and symbolic milestone. Even more so this year as we navigate our way through a tumultuous 2020. Not that long ago, we were busy writing up our New Year’s resolutions. Those Australian wildfires were going to be THE story of the year. Next thing …
Over the past few months, I have been spending a fair bit of time on the topic of investing in bonds. For some people, bonds represent an excellent way to soften the inevitable volatility of the stock markets. For others, it’s a way to exercise full control over the timetable of their retirement. And as …
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