Three Tips When Shopping For A Personal Loan

When used properly, personal loans are a great way to meet any funding shortfall that you may have. That is to say, forget about using them to pay for holidays or whatnot.

Funding luxuries are not the best way to use a personal loan. But if you have a genuine need to borrow $10,000, or an amount that a credit card is just not going to cover, then a personal loan is the product for you.

Here are three tips when shopping for a personal loan

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Three Benefits Of Using A Credit Card

Most of the personal finance pieces you read on credit cards are usually centred on mistakes made using them, and the great evil of carrying too much debt. In actual fact a credit card, if used correctly, can be an extremely useful thing to have, and can have a number of advantages.

So why so much online angst over credit cards? Well the very real overwhelming fear that most people have of being in over their head in debt. Others worry that having a credit card, whilst not resulting in too much debt, may lead them to spend more money than they ordinarily would.

A lot of people who don’t have credit cards, just don’t see the point or any benefit from owning one. So the purpose of this piece is really to show how credit cards, if used correctly can be really beneficial.

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Six Financial Mistakes To Be Avoided

If you are making one of these six financial mistakes, you probably aren’t aware, but doing so puts your financial security in jeopardy.

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Four Steps To A Debt Free Life

Australians pay billions of dollars in interest on their debt every day. Instead of letting the banks profit from our debt, all of us should be looking to make our debt burden as cheap as possible. Here are four steps to do that.

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Choice Says Credit Card Companies Treating Borrowers Unfairly

January 25, 2010 · Filed Under Personal Finance, banking, credit cards · Comment 

Consumer advocate group Choice says that credit card companies are hiding details on interest charged to partly paid or overdue credit card balances, and this is costing consumers unfairly.

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Five Steps For Financial Health

Recession can cause people to feel a lot of stress, as budgets tighten and people have to do more with less. Fortunately Australia seems to have put the worst behind it, and if you have lost a job or are on the hunt, then things certainly seem to be a lot brighter than a year ago.

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Four Ways To Save Big In 2010

So your new year’s resolution is to save big in 2010, and the age old adage of count your penny’s and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true today as when the proverb was first written. However that doesn’t mean to say you should focus entirely on making small savings, there are a number of ways you can really save big and add to your bank balance, making sure that next Christmas won’t be about belt tightening, but belt loosening.

Here are four ways to save big in 2010.

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Ten Tips If You Are Cash Strapped For Christmas

If it looks like you are going to be on tight budget this Christmas, no need to worry, here are 10 tips to help you make ends meet this Christmas.

If you think you are the only one wondering how to make ends meet this Christmas, don’t worry, you’re not, with just a few weeks left until the holidays, many of us are working on especially tight budgets this year.

The good news is that there are plenty of ways to save cash in the build up to the holidays, so here are ten tips to save money.

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How To Do Online Christmas Shopping Safely

This year over 27 million people worldwide will do their Christmas shopping over the internet according to PayPal. That is not that surprising, it’s easy, convenient, and there is no need to deal with crowds or carry heavy bags home. Just a few points and clicks and your done, and after a few days your Christmas presents will be there on your doorstep.

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12 Basic Life Insurance Questions Part Two

We follow up with the second part of our two part series on 12 Basic Life Insurance Questions. For Part One See here

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