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How about we start with the basics and discuss first what are your strategies to FIRE. May be we can start by looking into what the european equivalents to well known US vehicles such as 401, Roth, Backdoor Roth could be.

I presume, we will need to nail it down by country , as vehicles may differ e.g. from France to Germany

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For me I just have my own index funds + my company has a pension fund (which exempts 10% of social security tax)

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