[social_warfare] An important relationship in your life might be one you never think about. It’s the relationship you have with your Financial Advisor. You might only see them once a year or perhaps not even that. But they are looking after your money so you should get to know them a bit more. If you […]
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[social_warfare] The gender wage gap has long since grabbed headlines, more recently a new gap is capturing attention. This is the gender investment gap. The gap shows women are investing 40 percent less than their male peers. So why is this so?
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[social_warfare] Recently a journalist asked me: What are the unique money challenges women face? I had some trouble choosing just one to highlight. Because none of the challenges stand in isolation. They are all interconnected. I had a substantial list and I had not even started to include the intersectionality of persons of color or
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[social_warfare] Recently, I attended a professional women networking event focused on finances and what I found broke my heart. Just talking about money triggered feelings of shame all around the room. Here are successful, ambitious, dynamic women, but when the topic of money opened up, I saw them shrink from the overwhelming feeling of
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Even before the shut-downs, the economy wasn’t working for the majority of people. Our experiment in the free-market has been tested and it has failed. Ever since the Great Recession, people have been discussing the rising inequality in Western society, but especially in the uber capitalistic North American society. With COVID-19 impacting every industry, the
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We are in a recession. There is no doubt about it. Unlike some other downturns, we are often still debating if the economic data supports calling an official recession. The official definition is 2 consecutive quarters of slowing GDP. But with this pandemic, we know that GDP and all productivity has fallen off a cliff.
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I have been grappling with the future. With the reports of those stricken with COVID-19 and those who have passed away worldwide, we are all facing tough questions. I’ve been social distancing and while all the health officials tell me it is vital, I’m oddly feeling helpless. When I turn on the news, I hear
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Like many people in the age of pandemic, I’m grateful for the Stimulus packages that governments all around the world have announced. Many have asked how exactly does government spending suppose to help the economy? Every single one of us has been affected by the illness, either by health or by economics. So I’ve been hearing
With all of the gyrations in the stock market, I’ve been getting a lot of questions on the global health pandemic and how that is affecting the economy and the markets. I’ve compiled a list of questions that are coming up most often. I’ve answered them from the perspective of experiencing the 2001 Tech Bubble
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Everyone’s talking about it, the disastrous day we had in the stock market yesterday. News Anchors are saying it’s the worse 1-day tumble ever or since the Financial Crisis. Pretty scary stuff, right? I can’t predict the future, but I can tell you what my experience was in 2007-2009 as we lived through the worse
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What is the difference between a sinking fund and an emergency fund? A lot of people have heard about the importance of having an emergency fund, and they work hard to secure it. But today we’re going to talk about another kind of savings. And that is a sinking fund. Both are equally important, and
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Today, we’ll discuss the concept of asset allocation – which is just a fancy way of saying how you’ll split your money up into different buckets. In most financial literature, you’ll see it displayed as a pie chart. This pie will either be made of just 1 thing or they will be split into different
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Has this ever happen to you? You get on a great streak and all of a sudden disaster strikes? You get so far in your savings goal only to have a freak accident that wipes it all out? Or you have wins in a couple of projects and start to look like a superstar at
Over the holidays, I read a very interesting book. The title is Brave, Not Perfect, written by Reshma Saujani, the founder of the not-for-profit Girls Who Code. What really resonated about this book is the discussion of gender expectations of girls versus boys in our Western society. How that impacts us as we grow up.
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