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Money Maven Blog by Sheryl Sutherland, Authorised Financial Adviser and Director of The Financial Strategies Group

Friday, 27 October 2017

Frame and Investment

Women Are Owning More and More Small Businesses Owning your own business is often touted as the ultimate coup in the working world. You set your own hours, pursue projects you’re interested in, and maybe work in your pajamas. About 29% of America’s business owners are women, that’s up from 26% in 1997. The number of women-owned firms has grown 68% since 2007, compared with 47% for all businesses. The progress for minority women has...

Tuesday, 24 October 2017

Everyday Money

This is One Inheritance You Don't Want You may have received a big inheritance, even if you're not aware of it: how you handle your money. Economics professors at the University of Copenhagen have found that if a parent was in default on a loan at the end of the year (their study looked at data from 2004 to 2011), the chance of default for their children was more than four times as high as for those whose parents were model financial citizens....