To reach Financial Independence, we all know we need to be investing. There are a wide range of financial products, investing tools and share trading platforms available today, making it difficult to know which is the right one for you. To make matters worse, many of these have outrageously high brokerage, or even hidden fee structures which can seriously erode your returns. To help de-mystify the investing landscape, Today I talk with Kurt Walkom - one of the Cofounders of Pearler, The Aussie brokerage platform dedicated to the Financial Independence community of long term investors.

Pearler is a share trading platform based in Sydney. The company has a strong focus on Financial Independence, and has built tools for you to use that help you invest to reach Financial Independence - such as their Auto Invest feature.

Pearler are so keen on Financial Independence, they even commissioned the Aussie Fire eBook to be written - which I had a lot of fun writing a chapter for back in 2020. If you want to have a read you can get a free copy when you sign up to the CaptainFI subscriber email list.

I signed up to Pearler shortly after helping write the book last year, and have been using it to invest in ETFs - right through their Beta-testing phase. I found a platform that was intuitive and easy to use, that had great technical support, and that seamlessly linked to my existing sharesight portfolio tracking account.

So, listen to find out what I think of the platform, and how can you use Pearler to reach Financial Independence. Kurt also Grills me on my portfolio and targets, providing a great constructive critique. Have a listen to find out more!