Saying It Isn’t Doing It: How to Beat Financial Planning Procrastination
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Saying It Isn’t Doing It: How to Beat Financial Planning Procrastination

ByYFSOL

When it comes to your financial future and your financial success, actions speak louder than words. Many people talk about leaving yachting with enough money to help them fund the next stage of their life. But relatively few turn the words into deeds. It’s not just superyacht crew. Everyone’s life is littered with unfulfilled goals….

Finding the Best Mortgages for Yacht Crew: Tips and Tricks
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Finding the Best Mortgages for Yacht Crew: Tips and Tricks

ByYFSOL

You don’t have to be in yachting long before you get the inevitable advice, “Invest in property. You can’t go wrong with bricks and mortar.” At first glance, it’s an attractive suggestion. You’ll need somewhere to live once you leave yachting and, in the meantime, you can rent your property out and make an absolute…

Money heading towards a target to illustrate the concept that investing needs purpose to make it effective.
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Investment Without Purpose: Why It Fails

ByYFSOL

Here’s something you’ve probably never been told before: Investment without purpose is meaningless. Here’s another one: Money is boring. Taken together, they are the two main reasons why for many superyacht crew investing is not only a wasted opportunity, but likely to fail miserably as well. And, unfortunately, a lot of the non-expert advice given to superyacht…

Pensions for superyacht crew
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Pensions for Superyacht Crew

ByYFSOL

Pensions may sound boring, but actually the concept is really exciting. They are a type of long-term investment vehicle that could provide you with financial freedom and independence once you stop working in yachting. And you will stop working in the industry one day. In a nutshell, pension plans are a type of savings plan…

Understanding International / Offshore Investments: A Guide for Superyacht Crew
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Understanding International / Offshore Investments: A Guide for Superyacht Crew

ByYFSOL

‘Offshore investing’ or ‘international investing’ is often associated with the ultra-rich. In other words, the kind of people superyacht crew like you work for. It’s not seen as something the ordinary person can do, nor maybe even should do. There’s an aura of mystique about it and, let’s be honest, a feeling that offshore is…

How to Invest Properly
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How to Invest

ByYFSOL

Putting together a solid financial plan that is flexible enough to adapt to your changing circumstances, yet solid enough to overcome temporary investment setbacks, isn’t an easy thing to do. That doesn’t mean you can’t do it on your own. Of course you can. But that begs the question, should you do it on your own and do you have the time?