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Stop Ironing Shirts (@StIroningShirts) - Financially Independent at 36

The Security Analysis Podcast

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How I Pursue Financial Independence

While pursuing financial independence, I was primarily in index funds. As long as you can get at least the market returned plus a high savings rate, you'll get to your number. While I love index funds, they're very tilted towards large cap growth and you can have a decade where large cap growth can do nothing or go negative while everything else just chugs along. Once you have a good nest egg, risk really starts mattering. You have more to lose and you can't take risks that are going to wipe you out.

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