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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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Statistics on Malaysians’ habit to spend versus save

January 1, 2009

I was reading January 2009’s issue of Personal Money magazine and came across some statistics on the preference to spend today versus saving for tomorrow. This statistics came about from Aviva’s 2008 Consumer Attitudes to Savings study. Here are some of the results shown for a few countries, Malaysia included.
Before you look at the results, [...]

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Wise up on using your credit

October 16, 2008

During this period of worldwide economic downturn that’s brought down primarily by the financial institutions, you can expect a lot of uncertainties where credit control and interest rates are concerned. Many of us are end users of many financial products, if you have not already noticed, and this means that the tighter credit control and [...]

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