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managing your finances

How many levels of your money are made to work for you?

September 9, 2009

Most of us are familiar with the theory of making our money work doubly hard for us while we actively seek more income. So the cycle continues with us making money, then using that income to invest so that it makes us more money.
Does it stop there for you? What about the income that’s generated from [...]

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Which kind of financial service agent would you be?

July 6, 2009

If you were planning to be a financial service agent, which would you consider being?

A unit trust agent
An insurance agent
A full-fledged financial planner managing investments to estate planning, etc
Etc?

And which financial institution would be a company of your choice?

Public Mutual
CIMB Principal
Prudential
AIA
Allianz
Great Eastern
ING
Etc?

I’m just curious as to how people decide which type of financial agent they want [...]

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A show of hands, how many people have financial planners?

June 23, 2009

I have always wondered how many of us actually engage the service of a financial planner to help us achieve our financial goals. Do you have one?
I’ve never had one although there was an insurance agent who did offer to extend his services as a financial planner instead of just being an insurance agent. But [...]

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A personal finance book for women – The Smart Cookies’ Guide to Making More Dough

February 1, 2009

This is quite a new book on the shelves that’s targeted towards women who want to begin taking control of their personal finances. The book “The Smart Cookies’ Guide to Making More Dough” caught my attention when I flipped through the latest copy of Personal Money magazine.

However, after a quick read on Amazon, I decided [...]

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Managing your finances as a couple

January 13, 2009

Married couples often have arguments when the subject of money is brought up. Especially now, when we are at the beginning of a global financial crisis, couples may find themselves at each other’s throats more often. Each of us have different ways of managing (or mismanaging!) our finances, and it’s inevitable that couples have lots [...]

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