Discussing all aspects of personal expenses, tracking, controlling, and reducing. With a walk-through of my expense tracking Excel sheet.
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April 2023 Financial Tracking and Reports
Vince walks through the financial tracking, findings, and reports of 2022.
March 2023 Investment Brokers and Market Securities
Dan discusses investment brokers, market securities such as ETFs and brokerage fees.
January 2023 Pay off Mortgage or Investing
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December 2022 Financial Independence Journey
Lorcan shares his financial independence journey, his book recommendations, and how he has managed to share his budgeting and savings with his spouse.
November 2022 Investment Trusts and Dividends
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October 2022 Irish Pension Options
A presentation about retirement in Ireland. In depth talk about options
September 2022 in-depth look at Solar Panels
September’s presentation was a Q&A about the installation and running of solar panels with a look at the dashboard metrics and how the savings that they have provided. There were also discussions around the purchase and running of an electric vehicle.
August 2022 Home Retrofit Payback Rate
Conor discusses his home retrofit and how it worked with the financial independence journey. He analysed his energy spend and shared it with the group.
Jun 2022 Tax Friendly Investments Ireland
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May 2022 Financial Independence Mindset
Mari discusses her dance with Financial Independence. Her analysis of the ups and downs of her journey to F.I. Her mindset on relationships, mental health, emotional health, and finding her tribe.
January 2022 from Rags to Financial Independence
David shares his rags to F.I. journey and his upcoming mini-retirement. How he went from debt to owning 2 mortgage-free properties.
December 2021 Geo-Arbitrage insights
In this meetup, Vince briefly discusses some aspects of the financial independence 10 pillars.
Frenck goes in depth into Geo-Arbritrage. He discusses the different findings from many different European countries.
November 2021 Retirement in Ireland
Nov 2021 meetup recording. Vince discusses the ins and outs of retiring in Ireland, from taxes to pensions.
October 2021 Financial Independence Ireland Meeting
Unfortunately, I experienced technical difficulties during the meeting, which prevented the software from recording the meeting. Some of you have requested a copy of the slides that I used to discuss Tax Efficient investments. You can find them here: Tax Efficient Investing in Ireland.
July 2021 Financial Independence Ireland Meeting
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May 2021 Financial Independence Ireland Meeting
May 2021 Financial Independence Ireland meetup recording. Shane discusses extreme FIRE, investment modeling, and extreme lifestyle.
Close the Knowledge Gap
Close the knowledge gap. A list of free and certified courses in financial awareness. Build your knowledge.
Apr 2021 Financial Independence Ireland Meeting
April 2021 Financial Independence Ireland meetup recording. Paul, financial advisor offers his insights in the tactics of the rich.
Feb 2021 Financial Independence Ireland Meeting
February 2021 Financial Independence Ireland Meetup recording
January 2021 Financial Independence Ireland Meeting
January 2021 Financial Independence Ireland Meetup recording
New Year = New Goals
The importance of setting financial goals and how to set them.
December 2020 Financial Independence Ireland Meeting
At this meeting, we discussed the advantages of the EIIS tax efficient investment scheme.
There is also a discussion on Bitcoin investment and cryptocurrencies.
Retirement Income in Ireland
A look at the possible income after retirement. How to determine income from pensions and after tax income.
Retirement Plans – What are yours?
What will you do when you retire? have you thought about it? This blog is about my thoughts and plans.
Implement the Action, Track, and Adjust
How I learned to adjust my strategy and found that a path to a goal shouldn’t be static.
Turn your Hobby into a Business
How your hobby or craft making can earn you extra money in Ireland
Will consumerism evolve again?
Isolation has changed our consumer mindset but will it stick?
Short Term Plans in an Uncertain Future
How to cope in these rough financial waters
Beginner’s Guide to Investing – Irish domiciled
Quick guide on investing in the stock market in Ireland.
How to decrease your taxes?
Decreasing your tax bill in Ireland is not easy, here is one way of doing it.
Planning for Retirement, what do I need to know?
Planning for retirement, what you need to know and what you need to consider.
How are you going to teach your children about money management?
I discuss MrsSmartMoney’s 3 easy money management lessons that you can pass to your children.
Government and Corporate Bonds
A discussion about Government and Corporate bonds. Understanding the differences between Government and Corporate bonds.
What is your Savings Rate?
How to determine savings rate. Walk through of my savings rate path.
Should I pay off my mortgage early?
We will look at how we should determine if we should put extra payments into our mortgage or invest the money instead.
Decreasing your Expenses
Looking at ways to decrease our expenses in order to save more money.
Frugal Shopping
Food is usually one of the biggest mandatory expenses, how do we decrease that bill?
How to make extra money in Ireland
Making extra income in Ireland, a few ideas.
How to start a saving fund
Saving is hard, let’s make it easier.
Property Investing in Ireland
A look at what it actually costs to run an investment property and possible profitability.
Financial Independence Interview
Some talking points from my interview with Playing With Fire
Stock Market Passive Investing
Passive investment is about investing without having to pick a winner. With passive investing, you don’t have to try to time the market.
P2P Property Lending
Crowdsourcing system for property investing Property is used as collateral against the loan Loan is locked up for the term I have heard of Property Bridges before but never really looked into it until last weekend. I started reading through their website and I asked the meetup group members if Continue Reading
Emergency Fund
Why have an emergency fund? how much emergency fund do I need?
Get rid of unnecessary debt
How to tackle unnecessary debt such as credit cards or car loan
Tax Efficient Investments in Ireland
A few tax efficient investments that can lower your tax debt in Ireland
11 Passive and Extra Income Ideas in Ireland
A list of passive and extra income ideas that can be done in IRELAND.
Saving Consistently
How to save in a structured manner.
Should I keep my used car or buy a newer one – a logical viewpoint
A logical view of whether to hold onto your current car or buyer a newer one.