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In my work I have found that the world’s most money-contented people grew up with parents who were very transparent about their money skills, whether they had them or not. This rare “honest house” either informs the right money skills, knowledge and habits OR the parents free the child to go off and seek mentors.

If I see one more big mouth talk about Lattes and Avocado Toast and Millennials I am going to literally scream through my computer. The shaming around Millennial spending is almost always from a Baby Boomer – Banker or Billionaire. As a Gen X caught in between these generations, I can tell you first hand

The above prognostication has already become a self-fulfilling prophecy because too many women from the “developed West” do not actively participate in their own financial lives. Call it a colossal Anglo Saxon hangover, but this “forboden” philosophy toward money matters, perpetuated by both men and women, is rooted in dated social mores, shame and generally

Featured image credit to: The Wrap Are you ‘shocked’ by the Harvey Weinstein scandal? I’m not. I’m shocked something wasn’t said sooner, say when the pedophile documentary came out all but fingering one of the founders of BitCoin and his Hollywood power circle. That’s right all you BitCoin lovers, know what you are supporting. But I’m absolutely not shocked that some Hollywood

While much has been made of *Millennials and what they will or will not become, this generation already has attributes that will make them very successful long term investors. As someone who spends hours understanding individual clients, what I have seen through my practice is completely at odds with all the bad press Millennials get.

Featured image credit: https://lthomason.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/monkey-see-monkey-do-a-devotion/ When talking and teaching Investment 101 to women, I can bet with about 100% certainty that someone in the audience will ask how to get children started down the road to saving and investing. I always respond, “Once you learn, and put what I teach you today into practice, you can show

I spent the last four years listening to rabid US advisors and CPAs here in Singapore gnash their teeth and wag their fingers ad nauseum about FBARS and the big bad IRS’s FATCA program. Well, the more informed have been to this rodeo more than once with our own government. The good news is that

As we head into 2017, I know you are already making new year’s resolutions, or at least wish lists for yourself. In my experience around 50% of those resolutions have to do with money, the others have to do with a mix of ‘life balance’ and diet/health. I know this because from January 2 through

Featured image credit: www.fawlings.ca As the mother of two teens, I am enraged at the sheer amount of propaganda sprayed across US news wires annually, the hysteria reaching a predictable crescendo every May. I am enraged that the US college price tag has inflated beyond all recognition and the admissions process has turned into the