Welcome to a new week. As Nigerians (at home and abroad) prepare to celebrate our country’s 60th independence anniversary; we will be looking at what it means to be financially independent and ultimately attaining financial freedom. Many people will agree with me that the current pandemic and economic downturn (in Nigeria and several other countries) […]
Enduring Gift Ideas (Toyin Oguntuyi)
Welcome to this week’s newsletter. Here’s also saying welcome to school runs as children resume school across Nigeria. You would have had to be in a cave last week to have missed the news of the Ferraris Nigerian businessman, Femi Otedola bought for his daughters. Mr Otedola, being the savvy businessman that he is, most […]
Count Your Blessings (Toyin Oguntuyi)
Welcome to a new week! In this week’s newsletter, we will be taking stock and deliberately seeing our glass as half full instead of half empty. This is because in the midst of all of that is going on in the world and in the economy (especially with all the back to school expenses); it […]
Useful Hacks to Dampen the Impact of Rising Inflation & Decreasing Returns on Investment (Toyin Oguntuyi)
Welcome to the month of September 2020. As we come to the end of the 3rd quarter of the year, the usual plans for the new year will begin across many organizations – budgets, cost and sales projections etc. It will not be out of place for individuals to also start their own financial considerations […]
A Tribute (Toyin Oguntuyi)
As we come to the end of the month of August, I hope that this has been a good month for us all. Today will be slightly different as I will be discussing two stories (one public and the other personal) that happened in the past week and the personal finance lessons I learnt from […]
Stay Strong – Go With The Flow (Toyin Oguntuyi)
Welcome to week 35 in the year 2020 and guess what, we have just 18 more weeks to go. Today, we will be looking at how to manage our personal finances in the midst of unsatisfactory national economic news. This month, the NBS has released several economic data and the news has not been […]
Great Things Have Small Beginnings (Toyin Oguntuyi)
Greetings from my side of the world to yours. Today, we will be looking at how we can make the best use of limited resources to build up wealth over time by studying the story of an athlete would amassed a fortune of over $600 million despite being in the ranks of the lowest paid […]
Wealth Building – Think Long Term (Toyin Oguntuyi)
Welcome to a new week. This week, we would be looking at how long term thinking can be very essential to our wealth and personal finance journey. As J. Oswald Sanders famously said, “Eyes that look are common, eyes that see are rare.” This quote best describes the interesting story about how two brothers made […]
Sir John Templeton’s Timeless Investing Principles (Toyin Oguntuyi)
Welcome to the month of August and we can all safely say like the Israelites, “thus far the Lord has led us”. The last week of July came with the unsurprising news the economies of the US and European Union both went into recession in the second quarter of the year. Whilst this may sound […]
Leaving An Enduring Legacy – Creating Generational Wealth (Toyin Oguntuyi)
How time flies! We are already in the last week of the seventh month of year 2020. As we are all trying to make sense of this extremely interesting year, one thing we can all agree to do; is just make the best of what we currently have. Today, we will be looking at some […]