What caught my eye this week. .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{ -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent); mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent); } Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively join our 14,423 subscribers to our free email newsletter to get future editions straight to your inbox. The post Weekend reading: The golden hour comes early for our model decumulation portfolio […]

Selling an investment in retirement can feel very different from receiving a dividend. One feels like spending down something you worked for years to accumulate. The other feels like skimming income off the top while leaving the underlying investment alone. Retirees who spent decades being told to save, invest, and avoid touching principal can be understandably reluctant to sell shares once retirement begins. A dividend seems to solve that problem neatly. You receive money in […]

As a home business owner, you should consider life insurance and how it can help your family replace your income. Working from home can make it easy to see your business as separate from the rest of your financial life. You have business accounts, clients, a computer, and maybe a dedicated office. On the personal side, you have your mortgage, retirement accounts, family expenses, and other personal finances. But your business affects your personal finances. […]

Every month since 2017, I have written an article about the slow and steady growth of our passive income. Several years ago, I added some of my annual goals (New Year’s Resolutions) in a separate article. In the last couple of years, I’ve combined them into one monthly post. I often use this space to look back over the last month and highlight what’s been going on with the family. The big event for us […]

Save, invest, prosper with My Own Advisor. August 2026 Dividend Income Update Hi Readers, Welcome to our August 2026 Dividend Income Update! For established readers (and any new readers that recently joined my free newsletter here (thanks folks!)), this is our monthly update to share how we are earning and now spending our annual dividend and distribution income in early retirement… Our… Early retiree thanks to DIY investing in stocks and ETFs. The article August […]

Can we build a great family life for £2,500 a month?  May spending: £3,125  £625 over our £2,500 target  Another month, another experiment in trying to build a great family life without spending a fortune.  May wasn’t quite the month we’d hoped for. We spent £3,125, putting us £625 above our £2,500 challenge target.  But that’s exactly why we’re doing this.  The aim isn’t to pretend that every month can be squeezed into a perfect £2,500 budget. It’s to see what our life actually costs, understand where the money goes, and work out which spending genuinely makes our life better.  And this month, there were some pretty clear reasons why we ended up over target.  May at a glance  May 2026 Our target£2,500 Actual spending£3,125 Over/under target+£625

A neighbor across the street from my rental texted me at 3:35pm on a Saturday to say something had been beeping inside my property all day and my tenants appeared to be gone. I drove over, let myself in, and found three smoke alarms stacked on the garage floor with the top one screaming away. […] The post The Reason Insurers Won’t Insure A Vacant Home appeared first on Financial Samurai.

On Tuesday, September 8, 2026, an Anthropic researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned over safety concerns and wrote about why. He said the leading labs are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence” and gambling with everybody’s lives. Then a colleague answered him in public. Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s Alignment Science Lead, agreed. He wrote that “we really do earnestly believe […] The post The Going Rate For Selling Your Soul In The Age Of AI appeared first on Financial Samurai.