Never stop learning
Dollars and Good Sense provides valuable tips and insight on how to better manage your money. We always want to see our clients grow in their knowledge of their own personal finances.
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Facing Your Financial Fears
Do you have any financial fears? If you did not have these fears, would you be closer to achieving your goals? We will explore some of the most common fears persons have and look at how we can overcome them together in order to live the life we love, and love the life we live.
Sydney overcame his financial fears in 2018 and is on his way to achieving his dreams; we hope his journey will help you to face your financial fears too.
Have a Blast and Make the Money Last
The air is filled with carols and the change in temperature and the bright lights are a giveaway that “gee wiz, it’s Christmas.” You probably have made your list and checked it twice. Christmas is a time when we have a blast, easily forgetting diets and budgets. With a little extra exercise, you will be able to shed the extra Christmas weight, but shedding that extra debt, may not be so easy.
Investing in Real Estate with less than J$16K
The average investor with an interest in “getting a piece of the (proverbial) real estate pie” can enjoy a slice of the returns and benefits with an investment of just J$15,500, in the JMMB Optimum Capital Real Estate unit trust fund.
Christmas Bonus: ‘Live Big’ Now OR ‘Achieve Big’ Later
“Wow! I earned 175%* on my investment. My Christmas Bonus is now almost triple” Dwayne was ecstatic that he had curbed the urge to splurge and ’live big,’ when he got a bonus five (5) years ago. He had instead invested J$100,000 (including his bonus) and now, he has J$275,000. “Cho man! If I had invested every bonus for the last five years, I could have a lump sum towards my down payment on my apartment. That would be achieving big,” he thought to himself.