Financial Autonomy

Research from the Australian Stock Exchange found that in 2014, 36% of adult Australians owned investments listed on the share market. Combined results from RP Data and Census data found 7.9% of the Australian population own an investment property. Now there would be some cross-over here with people holding both shares and investment property, but we can safely conclude that at least 55% of the adult Australian population holds no investments outside of their superannuation. Click here to download the toolkit Back in episode 27 we explored what was required to achieve financial independence. In a nut shell, determining what your living costs are for the lifestyle that you want, and then finding a way to generate that sum of money each year is the solution. So let’s say you’ve done your numbers, and you know that for you to achieve financial independence, to gain the choice that is the goal of Financial Autonomy, you require X dollars per year. How do you then go about generating that? Now of course regular