This is a guest post from Jarrad – the editor of the Kyoto JET blog, Ganbatte Times. Jarrad got started with his finances about a year ago and agreed to share his thoughts about asset allocation for the FF readers. This post is a little advanced, but introduces some financial information that you’ll start thinking [...]
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The FF Podcast Ep. 9: Beginning Investing with Adam from Magical Penny
On this week’s episode of The Foreigner’s Finances Podcast I talk with one of the few British personal finance bloggers, Adam from MagicalPenny.com. Adam’s been writing about money for about 6 months. During the podcast we talked about investing as a 20-somethings and the differences between money in the U.S. and the UK. You can [...]
The FF Podcast Ep. 8: Retirement Savings with PT from PT Money
On this week’s episode of The Foreigner’s Finances Podcast I talk with one of the few full-time personal finance bloggers, PT, from PTMoney.com. PT recently wrote a post for U.S. News and Yahoo! called the 5 Reasons Your Are Not Saving Enough for Retirement. During our conversation we talk about this article and how you can properly prepare [...]
Catching Up on Investing Posts
Getting your finances to the point where you’re regularly investing income in an IRA or 401(k) is the last 15% of dominating your finances. Over the past 11 months I’vewritten a handful of posts about investing, and year 2 of FF will dive in to this topic even more. In the meantime, here’s some of [...]
The 401(k) Beginner’s Manual
401(k) seems like a scary grown-up word that only stuffy businesspeople who work 65 hours a week and read The Wall Street Journal care about. In reality, there’s a very good chance your eligible to enroll in a 401(k) through your company and they may even offer you free money for investing. Intrigued? You should be – [...]
Should You Buy Your Company’s Stock?
My friend was recently was hired for a new job and e-mailed me asking for some clarification about his company’s retirement plan and stock options. He copy and pasted this bit of his company’s retirement plan in to the e-mail: “(Company name) sponsors an Employee Stock Purchase Plan whereby all employees are eligible to purchase shares [...]
Update on My Lending Club Investments
I started investing with Lending Club in the fall of last year and have moved a good amount of money there over 8 months. For those of you who are new to Lending Club, here’s a quick intro on Lending Club and an update from March to catch you up. Since I’m not able to [...]
Talking Investing & Book Writing with Mike from Oblivious Investor
I recently came across the personal finance site, Oblivious Investor and was amazed by the author’s story. Mike’s in his twenties and used to work as a financial advisor and tax accountant. He now is an accomplished personal finance author with 6 books based around making finance simple. Since Mike has the background and training in [...]
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Hi, my name's Austin Morgan. I teach English in Japan and write about money for twenty-somethings. Feel free to contact me with any questions and I hope you enjoy the site!
