Tag: financial freedom

New year, new dreams, new aspirations, new diets, new action plans, new holiday ideas, new jobs, and typically, also a "new you." We can all relate to the "new year, new you" tagline. A fresh start to get our lives back on track and to live the lives we want to live.

Although a will is essential, holistic estate planning ensures that the next generation has financial freedom. This may seem obvious and straightforward, but there are many considerations and legalities that can make this process hard to navigate on your own. 

Bricks for Chicks introduces women (and men who are smart enough to read it!) to property investment, demystifying industry lingo and introducing the basic strategies a budding investor can employ to maximise returns in what can often turn into a field of broken dreams.

The number of people living into their late nineties and early hundreds is growing by the day. The notion that you have to retire at 65 is becoming outdated and, more importantly, impractical and even financially hazardous.

South Africans are struggling to achieve financial freedom with 34% not having enough savings to last more than a month if they lost their income/jobs. However, this freedom can be within reach through investing in quality assets such as real estate to build up a passive income.

Searching for photos of mountain climbers (not the exercise), you’ll more often than not find images of happy, jolly people on the summit, or with the abyss behind them. You rarely see the whole journey, which can make it seem as if reaching the top is only for a select few.

When we think of gender inequality in the realm of money, the perennial pay gap springs to mind. It remains a problem. The 2020 Momentum/UNISA Household Financial Wellness Insights report estimates that, on average, women earn around 30% less than men in similar jobs in South Africa. 

Creating awareness around financial saving is important for businesses, and cash flow management is critical for survival.

All of us want to live the best version of our life possible, right? The trouble is, we have a whole bunch of thinking patterns that keep us stuck in our old ways of operating and behaving. So, we can't seem to make change stick for long periods of time.

In the wake of the pandemic, many face the reality of their meticulous credit records being negatively affected by the whirlwind of last year’s economic instability. Landlords and tenants alike have been affected due to income loss, leading to missed bond payments, downsizing and, unfortunate, if unavoidable evictions.