Weekly Updates
WHAT SHAPES YOUR INVESTMENT CHARACTER?
Quote of the Week:

“In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.” Roger Staubach- Hall of Fame football player.
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Our lives are greatly defined by the way we make financial decisions. In most cases our spending is dictated by our level of income. Rarely, though, will your current income satisfy all your desires. Consequently, choices have to be made to meet essential expenses, and this involves avoiding arbitrary spending. Having enough money would be the most ideal case, but seldom do you find yourself with more money than your needs.

 
ARE YOU LIVING TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE?
Quote of the Week:

“In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.” Roger Staubach- Hall of Fame football player.
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Financial planning, budgeting and other aspects of managing your money can be complicated and frustrating topics. If that is the case, there are simple and easy ways to administer a financial check-up to one-self. Some light shedding  questions have been outlined below:


 
MISTAKES TO AVOID WHILE INVESTING IN FINANCIAL MARKETS

Quote of the Week:

“There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from” Elisabth Kubler Ross.
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Where financial markets are concerned, investing can appear to be a complex maze filled with numbers that need to be crunched, theories that need to be practiced and even rules that need to be upheld. In reality, however, the financial market operates just like any other market, where goods and services are bought and sold,  and the forces of demand and supply (among other factors) determine the availability and costs of the “items” being traded.

Investing in financial markets must however be approached in a more systematic and organized manner. Assets such as stocks (shares), unit trust funds, debt instruments such as treasury bills and bonds, among others, can be a great means of building wealth, but only when used correctly.

 
RETIREMENT PLANNING: KEEPING THE PACE

Quote of the Week:

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe.” Anatole France-Writer and literature Nobel prize holder.

Evidently, many people fail to understand the importance of retirement planning. If financial objectives were to be ranked according to their importance to households today, retirement planning would probably be among the last ranks. For many, retirement planning is an objective that has been given very little or no thought at all, and it is easy to see why that is the case.

 

 
THE ECONOMICS OF PERSONAL FINANCE

Quote of the Week:

“Plan for the future because that’s where you are going to spend the rest of your life” Mark Twain

Economics can be described as a social science that studies how individuals, governments, firms and nations make choices on allocating scarce resources to satisfy their unlimited wants. As complex as the principles of economics may seem, they can be applied in our day to day financial decisions to derive full potential from our personal finances. A few of such concepts are outlined below:

 

 
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