Nike Popoola Many young adults in Africa do not have the basic skills needed to handle their personal finance, with the importance of saving often overlooked. Saving is a vital ingredient in the recipe for financial independence, but so  often people find it difficult to put money aside each month. According to http://www.mastercard.com, here are a few tips on how ...

Forbes 4 People To Never Take Financial Advice FromForbesIf you have close friends, you might share everything with them, including personal details about your money. But that doesn’t mean they know all the details to give you the right advice. Your friends probably haven’t seen your balance sheet or been … and more »

Last year we wanted to get annual net income down so we could avoid some taxes. Did it with leases; might have overdone it. Now we’re wishing we had more cash and net income to work with this year. How do we find the right approach to tax planning vs. running the business? THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Don’t leave tax ...

Valentina Nana Agyeiwaa, popularly known as media personality and comedian Afia Schwarzenegger is dishing out ‘crucial’ advice to young women everywhere. Get the latest news in politics and entertainment on YEN.com.gh The TV host who is currently in the middle of a nasty divorce battle is warning all women whose partners demand information about their wealth and investments to say ...

PM assures bank customers. The Prime Minister has given an assurance that the five banks offered special risk management measures are still stable and only received the measures to ensure stringent control. Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has acknowledged that the Bank of Thailand’s announcement that Krung Thai Bank, Kasikorn Bank, Siam Commercial Bank, Bangkok Bank and Ayuthaya Bank are ...

The Equifax security breach should have you wondering who has your back when thieves steal your private data. You’re best off if you assume the answer to this question is no one. The saddest storyline in the Equifax situation is the lack of respect shown to people worried their data may have been stolen. Equifax is a global company that ...

A Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) is a type of investment account designed to help you save for retirement by deferring tax payments. Since your investment horizon is very long in a RRSP, you should seek stocks that grow over the long term. The dividend yield doesn?t matter — you don?t need yet the money coming from your RRSP to live ...

The News Minute Rupee Rani: Is it smart to pump your life’s savings into a wedding that is a one-day affair?The News MinuteTradition dictates that the girl’s family bear the brunt of wedding expenses, but if there’s anything that history has shown us, it’s that tradition can be stupid. Have an upfront conversation about your money situation with your partner-to-be, ...

Have you drunk the buy-and-hold Kool-Aid? If so, don’t worry – it might be the best approach for you. After all, when Warren Buffett endorses a strategy, how bad could it be? This article shines a light on a significant flaw in the entire premise of buy-and-hold as a universally superior strategy. What’s the big deal about bear markets? Bear ...

As a kind of unwritten rule, in my “dessert years” I write mostly about things past, attempting and sometimes even succeeding in creating a link with the present. (Footnote: If our youth is our “salad days” as Shakespeare taught us — by way of the fine San Francisco columnist Stan Delaplane — then … well, I think you get my ...