Should You Care about Global Crises?
What is the individual investor to do when global events threaten to bring turmoil to the markets? Should one ignore the supposed horses of the apocalypse or take your investments and run for safer havens? One of our contributors, Jessica Hubbard, canvasses the opinions of some experts.
Are You Truly Wealthy or a Debt-ridden Wannabe?
Being a high-earner does not automatically make you a wealthy person. In fact, as Jessica Hubbard, one of our contributors reports, a depressingly small percentage of those who earn big salaries manager to transfer that into being high net-worth individuals and families. So how can you avoid the debt trap awaiting the big-bucks earners? Click to read the article: “Are you truly wealthy or a debt-ridden wannabe?”
Fear and Loathing: Are Woman Not Fully Financially Empowered yet?
The issue of woman’s relationship to finance and money is interesting. One of our contributors, Jessica Hubbard, wrote an article for Finweek in which I participated. Click to read the article: “Fear and Loathing: Are woman not fully financially empowered yet?”
Are We Born to Spend?
Behavioural Economics has become firmly established as both a tool through which to assist people with their finances, as well as a lens through which to assess and analyse the way we handle money.
While it is still a relatively new concept in South Africa, perhaps we can draw on the discipline to tackle our dismal savings rate and poor financial habits?
In this brief excerpt from a Finweek magazine cover story by one of our contributors, Jessica Hubbard, she asks the question…
Are We Born to Spend?