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Hosted by Mike and Andy · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 episodes
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This podcast is part of the fire place project which discusses investing for financial independence and early retirement (FIRE) from a UK perspective. Episodes are in a magazine format and contain items about recent news, interviews with guests, and Q&A sessions.We also have a helpful wiki covering a lot of the FIRE concepts here:https://www.thefireplace.info/wikiSupport the show:https://buymeacoffee.com/thefireplace
Mike and Andy hosts the fire place, a business show with 19 episodes published.
This time we have our regular guest John and we are looking at questions posted in our Facebook group (see the community link below) covering a wide range of FIRE areas including: What are the trade-offs in retiring earl
As a follow-up to the last episode, in this one we talk in more detail about Richard's investment approach, which involves a mixed portfolio of property, index funds and investment trusts. When does index investing becom
In this episode we talk to Richard who started very early and reached FIRE before 50. We discuss his early life where while working in a number of jobs he quickly learned about investing and how it could eventually free
In this episode we talk about index-tracking investment funds and their relevance to people looking at financial independence and early retirement. What are indexes? What are index funds? What should I look out for? We l
In this episode we talk to Man Tai who reached FIRE and retired early, then became a counsellor and has helped many people deal with the psychological issues of retirement. We cover his upbringing in an immigrant communi
Following earlier episodes on 'bridging' (#10) and how pensions work (#12) we take a deep dive into a typical retirement journey from work to early retirement and beyond. In this we look at: using ISAs to fund the period
Does running a business make FIRE easier as the tools and skills are transferable? Or does it make it harder as businesses take up so much of your time? For this episode we're talking to Anne-Marie and David who own and
This is a follow-up to episode 17 where we discussed forthcoming changes to inheritance tax with John. In this episode we discuss what practical measures you can take now, such as setting up pension drawdown to ensure mo
For this episode we're joined by John to discuss inheritance tax. Coming changes to tax law mean that many more people will have to deal with inheritance tax and we discuss ways to maximise how much of your inheritance g
This episode is a follow-up to episode #12 where we discussed How Pensions Work. This time we look at the practicalities of drawing down an income from a self-invested personal pension (SIPP). The SIPP has been chosen fo
Can you reach financial independence by your 30s if you start early enough? We chat to Lucy and Kieran who are still in their twenties with a house and family but expect to reach Coast FI - where their investments are es
In the News section we cover the introduction of SIPPs by the Trading 212 platform and the new platform Prosper which offers a free SIPP and a global tracker fund with no fees. In the main section we chat to William abou
This episode is a live Q&A special at our recent FIRE in the Forest event where over 50 members met at Center Parcs in the beautiful surroundings of the English Lake District: people hung out together, went on hikes and
In this episode we first cover the difference between defined contribution and defined benefit pensions and then we look out the the principles of a defined contribution pension such as a workplace pension or a self-inve
In this episode we talk to Chris about 'Coast FI' - when you're financially independent or nearly there and decide to prioritise quality of life over work. We chat about his background and when he became aware of the fin
We talk often on the show about 'bridging', which is how you build a pot of assets to provide you with an income until you can get access to another source like a pension. A good example is retiring before pension access
Frugality is a key part of the financial independence and early retirement community, but it's not necessarily all about wearing hair shirts and eating mung beans. We talk about good and bad frugality and the key metric
We chat to Bex, who is a regular at the Sheffield and Nottingham community meet-ups (for details of these, see our community link below). She is a civil servant and is looking at retiring early so that she and her husban
We've used this episode to make a Q&A special to answer a number of questions that regularly come up with our guest John, who is a regular in our Facebook group. We look at 'one more year syndrome', where it's very tempt
This episode's News covers the planned rise in dividend tax rates for the 2026-27 tax year and In the main section our interviewee is Evelyn from one of our Nottingham FIRE meet-ups. We talk about how you know when you'v
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