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    What is your personal retirement target sum?

    What's the source for 1:1 by 2050? The Report of the Commission on Pensions predicts 2.3 by 2050
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    Fair Deal/Nursing Homes Drugs payment scheme with a family member in a nursing home

    My father is in a nursing home and my mother lives at home. She is attempting to get them both set up on the drugs payment scheme but is running into trouble because they don't share a pharmacist (his medications come through some warehouse pharmacy used by the nursing home, hers from the local...
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    Crypto. Ponzi Scheme?

    Not really. But if you had a digital certificate of ownership of a piece of art, and you replaced the spreadsheet with a public database that was very hard to update illicitly. Then sort of.
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    Best way to find a 2-3 month summer rental next year

    Now that remote working/working from home is the norm, I'd like to extend our family holiday next year and rent somewhere in the west of Ireland for a few months over the summer. But I'm not sure what the best way is to go about it. Airbnb is the obvious option, but I'm hoping I can get better...
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    Key Post Bitcoin is a clearly identifiable economic bubble

    Genuine question: what would it take for you to change your mind? Bitcoin staying non-zero for some particular period of time? Some specific type or level of institutional adoption? Something else?
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    Leaving Perm to Contract in this climate

    What public sector departments would you recommend?
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    Tesla's battery technology discussion

    Thanks for catching this (and the Koch brother angle). Referring to the Manhattan Institute as MIT is misleading at best.
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    The future death of passive index tracking? Will the golden egged goose die from popularity?

    https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/09/debunking-the-silly-passive-is-a-bubble-myth/
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    Switching from US ETFs to UK investment trusts

    dub_nerd: out of curiosity, which other investment funds do you hold?
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    Where to invest monthly

    Another option previously mentioned by Sarenco in https://www.askaboutmoney.com/threads/best-investment-vehicle-to-passively-harness-long-term-stock-market-returns.209089/ and https://www.askaboutmoney.com/threads/best-place-to-invest-100k.208846/ - buy an investment trust like FRCL.
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    Where to invest monthly

    I'm curious what people think ofour idea of investing via non-tax-deductable payments to your pension. Assuming you don't need the money before retirement, and your pension allows you to direct the extra money to some sort of index find, and the fees are low, that seems reasonable. I'm in a very...
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    Key Post The Tax Treatment of ETFs for Irish residents

    anirishinvestorsguide_dot_w_o_r_d_p_r_e_s_s_d_o_t c_o_m
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    What does your pension portfolio look like?

    In a similar situation: 39, well paying but high-stress job, hoping to be mortgage free in a few years and able to retire or just move to something more rewarding/lower stress by 50 (which is also when I can access my pension). I'm still working a lot of this out*, but there is a huge internet...
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