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In Part 5 of the Fight Fire With FIRE Investing Guide, we briefly touched on one of the major benefits that index funds have over other types of investments: lower costs. This, however, is not the only one—not by a long shot. There are many others, and taken together, they…

We left off in Part 4 with a question: With literally tens of thousands of options out there for individual stocks and bonds, how does anyone know which ones to pick for their portfolio? And doesn’t building a well-diversified portfolio of both stocks and bonds get very complicated, very quickly? (Okay, okay…that was…

So, what exactly is index investing? What makes it better than other strategies for building a portfolio? And how exactly do you go about building a portfolio based on index funds? We are going to cover all of these questions—and more—over the scope of this guide, but it’s important to first have…

Welcome to Part 3 of the Fight Fire With FIRE Investing Guide! If you’ve been following along so far, we’ve covered two important aspects that should be considered prior to investing: your emergency fund and your debt position. As promised, we are now going to look at a form of…