Trading on the stock market is one of those areas that I find really grey and hazy. One of my earliest memories of CNN is hearing people talking about Wall Street and seeing what looked like a hundred people in a room with two hundred televisions. It looked like a mass of confusion and chaos. […]

For a long time I’ve been trying to figure out how to save more money. I need to save money, but I’m in a bind because I can not trim anything else from my budget. I’ve budgeted down to the cents, which is not a good thing. I could always hope and pray that I […]

In addition to be being celebrated as Halloween, the 31st October 2011 is also World Savings Day. I never even knew that such a day existed! About World Savings Day This wonderful day, originally known as World Thrift Day was first started in 1924, in Italy at the first International Thrift Congress. World Savings Day is usually […]

I read in a local newspaper that the Central Bank of Barbados will be offering a savings bond issue. This is the sixty-eighth issue of government bonds, and they went on sale on Monday, 3rd October 2011. I’ve never bought savings bonds before, but I think that it’s a good long term savings tool. A […]

A good financial plan should include an emergency fund. An emergency fund, which can go by many other names including “just-in-case money”, “emergency money” and “if something bad should happen money”, is money that can be used to cover unexpected emergencies when they arise. When I got my first full-time job, I started an account […]

I recently joined a Facebook group called Caribbean Bloggers Massive and I posted a brief introduction about Odd Cents. I received a comment from another member of the group which said something about an “adult piggy bank” which inspired me to write this post. When I was younger my grandmother gave me a piggy bank. […]

I save two dollar bills. Yes, I save every two dollar bill that passes my way. Whenever I make a purchase and I receive a two dollar bill as change, I tuck it away in a little corner of my purse. When I get home, I put it with my stash of two dollar bills. […]

Although I work in the financial services sector, I could not describe to anyone what a mutual fund was. I had no definition in my mind other than it being yet another type of investment. So, I decided that it was time I did some research on mutual funds. A mutual fund is a “company” […]