Personal Budgeting during COVID- 19
There may be many challenges and anxieties being faced by individuals as a direct result of the COVID- 19 Pandemic. Here are a few tips to assist with managing your budget.
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Personal Budgeting during COVID- 19
There may be many challenges and anxieties being faced by individuals as a direct result of the COVID- 19 Pandemic. Here are a few tips to assist with managing your budget.
Six Tips For Your Future Self
The retirement savings, emergency savings, and your knack for making money are even more important five years from now. But just in case you forget this, here’s a letter for your future self.
Who Is Your Financial Hero? Tell Us & You Could Win!
Who are the people you know who have placed great value on financial independence and set the bar that you aim to reach in your money matters? Who is your own financial hero?
Here are five ways to help you identify your own financial hero
The ‘Just Check!’ Challenge
Our favourite thing about the social web is the conversations we get to have with our online community. A recurring topic we’ve noticed lately has been dormant accounts – “I used to have an account with VMBS. Is the money still there?”, “I just found my old passbook and memories of opening my first account …
6 Steps to Raising Financially Savvy Kids
What age did you get the ‘money-talk’ from your parents? Did you have one at all? I’m that stage in life when you start to mumble your age and develop an obsession with sunblock, but I’m still waiting on one from mine. As for my colleagues, a quick office poll revealed that, 75% of us …
Needs, Wants and the ‘Happiness Scale’
We’ve all been given that speech by our parents, or taught by our teachers in primary school Integrated Studies, about the difference between need and want. A need is something you have to have, and a want is what you’d like to have. Needs occupy a generally accepted list of three: food, shelter and clothing …
VM Wealth – Supporting Jamaica’s SMEs
It was impressive to see 23 local brands representing a variety of food-industry Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) at the recent Jamaica Observer Food Awards. Proudly displaying everything from pastries and preserves to sauces and seasonings, and even a curried goat burger! It was a tasty spread of no mean proportions, but for those who …
We’re here for a Nation of Savers
Raise your hand if you get excited at the sight of packages taped together with 2-for-1 tape or if you countdown to sales. Say ‘I’ if your toolkit is stocked with glue, nails and tape ready to repair rather than buy new. Shout ‘hear-hear’ if you have bottles turned top-side-down in your refrigerator or a toothpaste …
Make 2014 Your Year to Save!
We are approaching the middle of March and many of us are feeling knocked-for-six at how quickly the time has passed since we rang in 2014 with new resolutions. And for some of us, what’s more surprising is the rate at which vows to save more than last year went off track. Don’t be too …
