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November 2, 2020 by Helen Baker

5 important money lessons you can easily teach your kids

Financial expert Helen Baker shares her tips on setting your children up for life. There are some money lessons that have been thrust into the spotlight as a result of the COVID pandemic that apply to us all. These school holidays provide a great opportunity for us to teach our kids the do's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Coronavirus COVID-19, Family expenses, Financial planning

November 2, 2020 by Helen Baker

Top tips to improve your financial fitness

Put your cash through its paces with these tips from financial advisor Helen Baker. For many of us, 2020 has been a year for focusing on our health. But it's not just our physical well-being we're worried about. With change at every turn, it's also been a time for monitoring our "financial … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Coronavirus COVID-19, Financial planning, On Your Own Two Feet book

November 2, 2020 by Helen Baker

Tips for shifting to a single-income household

A spike in single income households looms as COVID-19 ravages jobs and families. Single incomes also stem from breakups and new babies, and financial advisor and author Helen Baker says cutbacks will be necessary. If you have a household budget revisit it, and adapt it to your changed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Coronavirus COVID-19, Family expenses, Financial planning, Single parent

November 2, 2020 by Helen Baker

5 budget-busting hacks to set yourself financially free

1. LOOK AT YOUR MONEY HOLISTICALLY It’s easy to look at our money in different silos: this is what we owe, this is what we have and this is what we expect to come in. But you have to consider all your money as a single pool to work out what represents the best overall value for you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Family expenses, Financial planning, Mortgage, Womens finance tips

November 2, 2020 by Helen Baker

Book Review: On Your Own Two Feet (2nd edition)

Perhaps the most telling quote in On Your Own Two Feet commences Section 1; Stepping out on the right foot, ‘At some stage in life a woman will be solely responsible for the financial decisions of the household,’ spoken by Don Connelly which would have to be the biggest truism in every … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, On Your Own Two Feet book, Womens finance tips

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