A checklist for the unprepared. We spoke to financial planner Stuart Skidmore from Saracens about preparing for retirement. Check out his seven key questions and considerations for everybody who has retirement on their mind.    By Stuart Skidmore Understand that time is your enemy. 10 years equals 120 months. If you are paid monthly and have 10 years before retirement, you will be paid 120 more times so what are you going to do now to achieve what you would like t...

We don't all learn from our mistakes. If you're in your 20's (30's or 40's!! :) Check out this Business Insider article which shares insights from influencial people who have built wealth over the years. Read here to find out what they had to say.   First step to managing your money better, take a look at Your Smart MoneyTool. ...

Make it a game! We've all had a genius idea at one point and wondered if and how we can make money from it.  Turns out we maybe onto something, we just need to sell it - simple!  Liz Davidson from Financial Finesse gives us 8 ways we can build wealth like millionaires. Put aside some of the american terms and focus on some the simple ideas put forward in the article. Remember often the best business ideas are the simple ones. We love the idea of throwing parties and s...

Taking out a low doc home loan can help self employed borrowers get ahead if you avoid these common pitfalls. Now, the real truth about low doc loans is that they provide self employed borrowers with flexibility.
Just because you are self employed shouldn't mean you can't have the business and home of your dreams. Right? Put simply, low doc loans are a financial solution when you either don't have the financial documents required by banks to take out a full doc loan, ...

Does your business need a technology makeover? Today more than ever, small business owners need to be agile, collaborative and efficient. And, the best finance apps for small business help you do everything from setting and following budgets, tracking your business expenses, paying and receiving invoices, monitoring sales and managing your accounting. The bonus is, you ditch the reams of paperwork and manual finance processes, leaving more time to focus on running your business...