Personal Finance

Budgeting is essential in taking control of one’s personal finances and a first step to building savings. Here are 13 tips to help get you started.

Saving money can be challenging, but it is an important financial habit to establish. In many ways, savings are the essential building blocks of personal finance. After all, you have to save money before you can invest it. Borrowing money, while it may certainly be helpful, is often done because one does not have enough savings to maintain a certain standard of living. In this post, we discuss key concepts to understand and characteristics to aspire for when trying to save money.

In 2018, Lana and Ellen met at a personal finance conference and suggested, spontaneously, collaborating on a podcast. Since then, we’ve introduced you to thought-provoking and thoughtful money experts, bringing you their best advice and tips. It’s been a great ride.

In this episode, Ellen Roseman chats with Kerry Taylor a.k.a Squawkfox, speaker, blogger and podcaster about behavioural finance, covid and whether her views about money have changed after her battle with cancer. They also chat about dynamic pricing, algorithm and loss aversion.

Ellen Roseman chats with Jackie Porter, Certified Financial Planner, author of Single by Chance or Choice, about financial planning as a woman and a single person and how to inspire women to get beyond traditional barriers in order to become financially knowledgeable

In this episode, Ellen Roseman speaks with Fred Vettese, Actuary and Author of Retirement Income for Life: Getting More Without Saving More (Second Edition) about his contrarian view of Canadian retirement strategies, including delaying CPP and decumulation of assets.

Ellen Roseman interviews Stella Papadopoulos, author of I’m Getting Divorced Where Do I Start? about what she considers important steps to be taken into account when considering divorce.