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Should You Prepay That Loan?

This question arises when you  have some extra income that you could use to increase your monthly debt repayments, or when you get  lump sum income and are considering using it all to repay the loans you have. There are many schools of thought about debt; some people believe debt should be avoided totally. They believe that you should buy only what you can afford to…

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Should You Cosign On A Loan?

I’m a member of an investment club (a chama), with 9 other ladies, much older than me. In fact, this is my Mom’s club, she invited me to join after my original investment club went burst. I don’t socialize much with the other members, but this week something interesting happened. One of the members asked me to co-sign for her on a loan she was…

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A Practical Way To Pay Off Your Debt:The Snowball Method

  Most personal finance experts  advice that the best method to get out of debt is to pay off your high interest debts first. While this makes text book and mathematical sense, personal finance success is 80% behaviour, and 20% mathematics. We become good at it by focusing more on methods that reward good behaviour, and keep us going. Recommended by personal finance guru, Dave…

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