The first two of my personal finance series posts covered the basic and everyday personal finance concepts. They were meant to get readers to start thinking about and changing their money habits. By mastering those money concepts, they will have built a solid foundation and discipline to save their money. The next step is Read More …
Author: Leo T. Ly
Everyday Personal Finance Concepts
Last week, I started penning the first post of my personal finance concept series to help motivated individuals to understand the basic personal finance concepts. That post was mainly targeted at individuals that want to get their feet wet and to start learning how to manage their money responsibly. For this post, I am Read More …
Basic Personal Finance Concepts
A couple of weeks ago, one of my readers mentioned that he/she had read most of my posts (50 and counting) and asked if I would consider writing some basic personal finance concepts posts. After reading that comment, something struck me right in the face and made me realized that I had made a Read More …
How To Make Money The Easy Way
Finding a job with decent pay is not an easy task nowadays. Trying to make extra money in your current job can also be a challenge as your job may pay a salary or you may not have the opportunity for overtime pay. Moonlighting or working on a side hustle can take a lot Read More …
Protect Your Online Personal Branding
Have you done a search of your name on a search engine lately? If you haven’t, let’s try a fun exercise by opening another browser tab and go to Google’s search page and type in your full name. Let’s check out your online personal branding. Just make sure that you are not logged in Read More …
Achieving Financial Independence
A while ago, I started my financial independence journey and set sail towards my early retirement with a goal of $2M in family net worth. Once I started this journey, I met a variety of people from bloggers, to families and friends to the casual strangers on the way. Very often, I would get Read More …
Should You Manage Your Own Investments?
Last week, a very intriguing finance article just popped up on my Google Finance dashboard. The headline of “$21.8M in investment fees was mistakenly charged” strikes my interest and I gotta find out how did such a mistake occurred. Ever since I started to invest for myself, I became a strong advocate for managing Read More …
My 2017 Personal Net Worth Review – Q2
Half of 2017 is in the books. Now is the time sit down and do a midyear assessment to see how well we have performed compared to the goals that we set for ourselves at the beginning of the year. Conducting a quarterly performance review on my own finance is a fun (don’t judge) Read More …
Who’s The Real Leo T. Ly?
Ever since I started blogging, I’ve often tried to share some non-financial information about me so that my readers can get to know the real person behind this blog. For my website, I have my standard bio at the end of each post, the about us page and the blogs page to tell people Read More …
Would You Borrow Money To Invest?
Recently, I was working with someone close to me to analyze an investment opportunity. Let’s call this person Joe so that I don’t reveal his identity just in case he reads this post and doesn’t like what I have shared. Not everyone is open to sharing financial information or personal stories like me and Read More …