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Starting Stock Market Investment

Starting Stock Market Investment

  Introduction I am an amateur investor and have been for a while under a year. I do not profess to being a master or having the perfect formulae to building your millions (sorry!) but I do think I’ve learnt some very important things in my short time investing and given the period of time I’ve been invested puts me in an excellent positon to give an honest & fresh perspective to help those first time investors take the plunge and get…

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Investing Advice for Millennials Post Brexit

Investing Advice for Millennials Post Brexit

  Introduction Wow, what an incredible past week. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week you would have heard that the United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union, commonly referred to as ‘Brexit’. Whilst I was a strong ‘Remain’ supporter, devastated by the vote of the British public on 23rd June, that is not the focus on this piece. In this post I want to focus on sharing the 5 best pieces of investing…

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Best Podcasts for Millennials Right Now

Best Podcasts for Millennials Right Now

Introduction  I find podcasts an excellent form of media as they’re easy to engage with, can be listened to almost anywhere and cover an extremely wide range of topics, in this post I want to highlight and explain which podcasts I think are best and most informative for Millennials. Podcasting compared to many other types of media: film, TV, radio etc. is still very new. There seems to be a consensus that the term started to be banded around in late 2004, and soon after very…

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Pension Saving as a Millennial

Pension Saving as a Millennial

Introduction  I wanted to focus on this topic given some rather worrying articles & findings which have been coming out in recent months on Millennials and there inability and unwillingness to saving for the future. Whilst many things for us millennials are much better than previous generations; smartphones, noise-cancelling headphones and Netflix to name a few, our prospects of having a comfortable well financed retirement is definitely not one of them. Millennials are being hit by an avalanche of things…

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Choosing a ‘Rewards’ Credit Card

Choosing a ‘Rewards’ Credit Card

  Introduction I was inspired to write this blog after I did my annual review of investments in 2015 and found out the best return on investment I got in 2015 was from my credit card! Admittedly this does say a lot about the state of the stock market in 2015, but it definitely doesn’t explain the full story. We are living in a world of unprecedented low interest rates, hitting the 7th year of 0.5% interest rates in the…

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Millennial Money Fundamentals

Millennial Money Fundamentals

Introduction  Lots of individuals, websites and companies go on and on about how, how much and where Millennials should be saving each month, far too often this information is so specific and un-relatable that Millennials never get past the first few days or steps of implementation. I have therefore decided to create this piece to take everything back to the start, in a simple to understand and implement way, highlighting the FOUR things every Millennial wanting to become conscious of…

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Welcome to JAB Lifestyle…

Welcome to JAB Lifestyle…

Thank you for visiting my site, I hope you find the content useful and insightful. Firstly a brief introduction, in 6 short bullet points I am a: Technology consultant Rugby enthusiast and general sport lover Amateur investor Londoner Looking to improve my physical, mental, spiritual and financial health and share my journey with everyone Trying to always be a cheerful pessimist & constructive cynic Following the 6 theme, I have decided to blog on the following 6 categories: Personal Finance…

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