Category: Investing

[Editor’s Note: This guest post was was originally written by Adebayo Fasanya from Dr. Breathe Easy Finance.] The investing maze is complex and it can be very difficult to find the best and most effective way to navigate through it. Good news!! There are 7 habits that highly effective investors use regularly to simplify this complex world of investing and

The great Albert Einstein said, “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” I couldn’t have said it any better myself. For anyone who wants to build lasting wealth and accomplish financial freedom, understanding and harnessing the power of compound interest is essential. It’s also the

(Editor’s note: This post was originally published on The Money Mix.) Congratulations. You’re a doctor and your income potential is much higher than most. Once you get to the point that you’ve paid off your student loans and credit card debt, it’s now time to focus on saving and investing. With so much information floating around in the personal finance

I recently read the hard to find book, Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth by Nick Murray. In it, he discussed four behavioral tactics to be practiced during different “seasons” of one’s investing lifetime. One of the behaviors was: “Invest the same amounts monthly, in the same funds, so as to harness the power of dollar cost averaging.” He gave a great

Ok, Ok. I admit. I’m a bit biased on today’s topic regarding one of the best personal finance podcasts you should listen to. Denis and Katie over at the Chain Of Wealth recently reached out to yours truly for a podcast interview on their site. They’ve recorded over 150 episodes talking with members of the personal finance and FIRE community.

In 2004, I originally read David Bach’s book, The Automatic Millionaire, after it was first released. He has since updated it to an “Anniversary Edition” in 2016. Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in the financial blog space regarding millionaires. It seems that many people want to know two things: Who they are? How to become one? If you want

Let’s face it. Doctors and other high-income professionals pay a lot of taxes. They’re unavoidable. But when it comes to your retirement savings, you have a choice as to when you want to pay them. Now, or later? One potential way to save on taxes later is converting a 401(k) to a Roth 401(k).  Before we get into how or should

What’s the best way to invest 50K? This question was recently posted on a doctor-finance private Facebook group that I’m privy to. I was amazed at both the number of responses and broad range of answers given. Coming into an extra $50,000 is a great problem to have.  It could come from an inheritance, tax refund, lottery winning, sale of a

The more personal finance and debt free blogs I come across, the more I realize most doctors are striving to achieve financial freedom. What exactly does this mean? In simple terms, a financially independent person has enough wealth to live on without working. There’s an entire group of FIRE (Financially Independent Retire Early) people (like Physician On Fire) that have started

I’ve been a long time listener of the Dave Ramsey show. For those of you familiar with Dave, then you’ve probably heard him mention the Seven Baby Steps to financial freedom that I’ve discussed in the past. Baby step #5 has to do with starting to fund your kid’s college. He recommends either a Coverdell Education Savings Account (ESA) or a