Practical approach to sustainable wealth
We returned from Cancun vacation last week. This vacation break was some what different from places and things we have been doing over the past several years– namely, children friendly destinations such as Disney or road trips to National Parks. As such not knowing much about popular tourist destinations such as Cancun, we were a […]
Lets us begin this post by having a look at the following chart: The chart plots the percent change in AVI family net worth (shown in blue) in comparison to change in S&P 500 index (red). In addition, I plot the change in net worth discounting for the unprecedented growth in valuation for AVI family […]
Update to the post: I started writing the post last weekend and almost a week has gone by since and what a week it has been! Some of what I say below may already be history, certainly seems to be the case with markets up 7 % for the week! With this note, here’s what […]
The $400,000 number seems to have garnered a lot of interest since recent the vice-presidential debate between the democratic nominee Kamila Harris (KH) and the republican nominee, Mike Pence (MP). During the debate, KH said that Biden would not raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000 a year, which follows from the statement made by […]
I have been meaning to complete my series on Portfolio Hedging for some time now. However, with two kids enrolled in full-time online classes, my mornings are now occupied taking care of kids and their schooling needs. Much of my for-pay work now happens in the evenings and as a result the times that I […]
The past week was extremely busy for AVI family. Mrs AVI took keen interest in painting the younger AVI kiddo room and the only contribution from Mr AVI, remove cover panels from electric outlets! Before you think how insensitive, Mr AVI was busy as well and doing the stuff that most Americans supposedly hate, filing […]
The title for today’s post is a personal. Its been a good week because AVI kiddo topped in his section (2nd grade) of WA State Chess Championship for the year 2020. Kiddo has been participating in this annual event for the last 3 years. In the first year, he won 3 games of the 5 […]
Its been more than a month since work from home policy was put in place by my employer. Its also almost month to the date since schools in our neighborhood have been closed. Enough of a time has now passed for me to assess the pros and cons of how I and AVI family are […]
In about 7 days we will usher in a new decade. The decade of teens, will soon be bygone, a decade of American prosperity in which markets (S&P 500) returned 250 % on the upside, never once dipping more than 20 % from the peak. Assuming nothing goes wrong in the last few days that […]
Its time for net worth update. Starting from Oct. 2019, in addition to tracking net worth as a percentage of our FI number, I started tracking two additional metrics: (a) Liquid Net Worth/ Debt Ratio (LND) and (b) Cash Balance/ Two years living expense (CBT). These two metrics are designed for me to know when […]
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