Savings Report #45 - Packing Up Shop

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. There was a big recovery in March with my portfolio rising by 4.14%. This almost reversed the loss in January of negative 5.13%. Since I began investing in 2018, I’m pretty sure that each time there was a huge loss, the most it has ever taken to reach that same net worth again has been 2 months....

April 8, 2022 · 4 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #44 - The American Dream

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. This update was difficult to prepare as I don’t think I’ve ever been as busy as I am right now. I signed up to co-author a technical book last year and I’ve now just begun the writing phase in which I need to write a 4000 word chapter every 2 weeks....

March 9, 2022 · 3 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #43 - FIRE Goal Un-Reached

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. I’m no longer financially independent. This month saw the biggest drop in my portfolio since I began investing; wiping out almost half of the gains I made in the whole of 2021. Well, I can’t say that I didn’t expect this to happen....

February 2, 2022 · 5 min · SavingNinja

2021 Reviewed - Are Goals Bad?

I’m ending this year with both a high and a low. The high being that my financial independence target of £300k was reached in December 2021 , and the low is that during Christmas both myself and my wife caught COVID. We’ve lasted for over a year in a mask-free state in Sweden, commuting to work, going out for drinks, and we never caught the virus. We go back to the UK for Christmas and then when we arrive back in Sweden we’re positive; what a plague-ridden country the UK has become!...

January 12, 2022 · 10 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #42 - Lean-FI Goal Reached!

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. I’ve made it to my initial financial independence goal of £300k net worth! This has taken me around 4 years of saving, with the last 42 months being tracked on this blog . This should, on paper, cover my current expenses indefinitely, although the sequence of returns risk would be huge due to having a lot of my net worth locked away in my pension....

January 2, 2022 · 4 min · SavingNinja