Wealth & Lifestyle
Banker on Wheels is run by nomads. Here you will find our best Personal Finance, Wealth Management and Lifestyle tips. Optimise Money, and find inspiration for your next adventure, while your Portfolio generates passive income!
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Becoming FREE – Part 2: An Alternative To FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early)
Target a lower savings amount, and go 'Partially Retired' Earlier - You can reduce the time waiting for…
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👶👶The Banker On Wheels Family Is Expanding (once again!)
Francesca and I are absolutely thrilled to announce that the Banker On Wheels family has expanded once again.
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Becoming FREE – Part 1: Why Early Retirement May Back-FIRE
The first time I came across the concept of FIRE, I was thrilled. It opened up a world…
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Stuck On The Tube: How I Discovered The Road To Financial Independence as a Self-Employed
When financial independence first became popular, most people interested in the concept were engineers or those in stable,…
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Cycling Japan’s Sakura in 2026 — 2 Secret Maps & Budget Travel Hacks
Between 2019 and 2023, I spent close to a year in Japan. I cycled over 4,000 km from…
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Nomads in 2026: Genki vs SafetyWing – Which Travel Insurance Wins?
We spent the last few years travelling across Asia, the Middle East and Europe meeting a variety of…
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Expat Health Insurace in 2026: Genki vs SafetyWing – Which Wins?
Leaving your country for more than a year? Here's how to choose an expat travel insurance.
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Financial Independence Planning in 2026 – The 3 Early Retirement Checklists
Our first checklist with will get you started. We also created the 3L checklists to help you organize…
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How To Make Difficult Life Decisions: Easy Decisions, Hard Life. Hard Decisions, Easy Life.
I sat down and made a radical decision: it was time to blow up my career.
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TOP 20 Investing Gifts: Christmas Books in English & Your Native Language
The holiday season is just around the corner, and with it comes the challenge of finding a great…
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Your Money or Your Life (Book Review)
Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez is one of the oldest and most…
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3 Movies to Start Your Journey to Financial Independence
Reading 300-page books about financial independence isn’t for everyone. But fortunately, there are countless documentaries and short films…
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Mistakes Add Years To Working Life & 7 Other Investing Lessons From Cycling The World
You may think that spending over a decade on Wall Street would teach me more about successful investing…
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The Millionaire Next Door (Book Review)
This book is a classic in the personal finance space. In it, the authors detail what they have…
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Cycling Tibet – Spiritual, Ballistic, Magnificent.
Tibet was the most rewarding part of all my cycling adventures, not only because of physical challenges. Spiritual…
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How To Slow Down Time & Make Yourself More Flexible
A few years ago, my friend and colleague Eric decided to leave his job and travel the world…
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7 Reasons Why Japan May Be Your Next Cycling Adventure
7 things I really miss after leaving the land of the rising sun, and a short summary of…
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Millionaire Expat: How To Build Wealth Overseas (Book Review)
Expats face unique challenges – financial regulations of both their home country and the host country, different taxation…
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The Psychology of Money – Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Book Review)
Housel takes us through some of the most important lessons how to think positively about wealth and investing.
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Ride Morocco – The California of the Muslim World
Morocoo - Voilà, the birthplace of Bankeronwheels.com! Consider this a sneak peek if you’re eyeing Morocco for your…
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How You Can Cycle The World – A Practical Guide
While you may be here to read about investing, some of you were curious about ways to travel…
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5 Years of Empowering Investors: The Journey So Far & The Ride Ahead!
Reflecting on half a decade of investor education, community growth, and what's next for Banker On Wheels.
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Wall Street Thinks You’re Dumb: The Rise Of Wise Money
Wall Street likes to make a clear distinction between Institutional Investors and Retail Investors. It's Smart Money versus…
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Work, Play, and Surf: 5 Beach Getaways for Digital Nomads from Okinawa to Koh Lanta
Over the past year, Raph and I worked remotely from Digital Nomad places in Asia and Europe. Sometimes…
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How to Get Rich (Netflix Series Review)
Today, let's look at why most people are so bad at managing their finances and where you and…
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Do I Need A Credit Card in Europe and the UK?
If you were to believe everything that the folks in the personal finance industry say, using credit cards…
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4 Things I Learned In 4 Years Of Running A Finance Blog
[elementor-template id="58949"] SHOULD YOU START A FINANCIAL BLOG IN 2024? When I launched Bankeronwheels.com four years ago, my…
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What’s the Future for Bankeronwheels.com? 2023 Year-End Survey Results.
Bankeronwheels.com, born during the COVID pandemic, began as a personal blog blending cycling with investing insights. With limited…
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Vipassana Meditation And Investing
Humility is usually associated with poverty, for example as it relates to Buddhist Monks. It may sound counterintuitive…
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COVID-19: Keep investing even if your monkey brain wants you to stop
Sometimes we may base our decisions on fear but we need to keep being rational. Earlier last year…
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Powerful Low Budget Tips – An Adventure Cyclist’s Perspective
Powerful Low Budget Tips – a long distance cyclist’s perspective Having cycled close to 20,000 kms over the…
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Why Europe Is Different. Credit cards may be useful, but much less than in the U.S.

If You Read About Investing From U.S. Sources And You're Based In The UK
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Whenever I catch up with friends in London or Paris, many confess feeling trapped on the hamster wheel, longing to live fully. Here's how one simple exercise in 2018 changed everything for me.

As our identities continually evolve, an interesting “One Word Exercise” helped me zero in on what truly matters. This exercise can also make you flexible later in life.

Kathrin walks you through her discovery of the movement

The FIRE Movement Allows Regular People To Dream – escape the 9 to 5 and achieve financial independence. It's a good starting point. But there is a problem.

Romain gives his perspective on an alternative way of looking at Early Retirement. Become FREE - Financially Relieved but Entirely Engaged.
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Five years later. Grateful, proud, and more committed than ever.

When I launched Bankeronwheels.com four years ago, my ambition was to spread knowledge to a diverse audience beyond investing niche enthusiasts.

Bankeronwheels.com, born during the COVID pandemic, began as a personal blog blending cycling with investing insights. By 2023, the blog had exceeded any growth expectations.

Sometimes illusionary in a corporate environment, work-life balance can also be tricky on the move. We tested different coworking spaces, but sometimes adapted a work-from-home style when options were limited.
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A practical guide to get started as an adventure cyclist. Here are my key practical insights to get started. Bike, apps, navigation, gear & money and logistics.

Cycling adventures are some of the most exciting and enriching human experiences you can have. But there is a lot of time to think and process experiences and lessons.

Qinghai is located in the North-Western part of China bordering the Tibetan Autonomous Region from the North and the Silk Road from the South. It is home to one out of four Tibetans.

Here are the 7 things I really miss after over 4,000 km on the road in the land of the rising sun, and a few tips for you to get the most out of it.

When to go, Where to go, How to Avoid Natural Disasters, Apps, Navigation, Cheap accommodation, Use the secret Google Maps with Minshikus, Michi-no-eki's and Onsens!

After I Morocco, I was immediately struck by the 6 things that I got used to and that I will dearly miss. Here is a teaser of what awaits, should you choose Morocco as your next destination!
