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A growing family comes with all kinds of elevated expenses and few are costlier than having to move to a bigger home.  Aside from the higher cost of a larger house, there are also all the associated costs.   Moving home can rack up costs into the tens of thousands …

It is a Saturday, but instead of spending the day at the mall or beach, groups of 8 to 11-year-olds and teenagers are huddled in an office in Dubai’s Business Bay learning about personal finance. Topics such as income, expenses, investments, loans, savings, inflation and retirement were covered by the …

Here are three tips about borrowing from friends and family for your business, as explained in the book Finance Your Business: Secure Funding to Start, Run, and Grow Your Business by the staff of Entrepreneur. It’s important to treat friends and relatives as if they were any other investor. Insist on the …

NEW DELHI: Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange were trading 18.50 points, or 0.17 per cent, lower at 11,086.50, indicating a negative start for the Nifty50. Here are a few stocks, which have buzz the most in today‘s session: Tata Motors, Grasim Industries: Tata Motors, SAIL, Grasim Industries, Adani Enterprises, …

Legal funding is a relatively new financing option for plaintiffs involved in lawsuits as well as the attorneys representing them on a contingency fee basis. There are many different terms used interchangeably for legal funding, including third-party financing, litigation funding, lawsuit settlement funding, presettlement financing, post-settlement funding, lawsuit loans and …

With the new year now underway, you may be looking to make a fresh financial start. But sometimes change can be tough to actually achieve — especially when it comes to your financial life. Paying down debt and saving for your future can seem like overwhelming tasks, and creating a budget …

It was at a conference in Nairobi that Nadia Sood made the initial introduction to an organisation with – wait for it – 70 million members. The CEO and cofounder of CreditEnable, a fintech company based in London and Mumbai, had been invited to address the conference on the problems small …

The Trump Organization is strenuously denying a report that German finance giant Deutsche Bank turned down President Trump’s request for a loan during the 2016 campaign. The New York Times claims senior executives at the Frankfurt-based lender reportedly rejected the Trump Organization’s request to finance a massive expansion of its …

P Chidambaram, former finance minister, is blunt in his criticism of the Interim Budget. The FRBM Act is as good as having been thrown out of the window, he fires a salvo. Chidambaram told ETNow that interim Budgets are not supposed to make permanent changes to the Income Tax Act …

Similar beneficial dynamics play out within companies. Academic research indicates that employing a greater proportion of women acts as a restraining influence on the riskier investment behaviour of men. Mixed gender teams of fund managers outperform funds managed by single-sex teams by balancing out risk and producing less volatile returns. …