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Enfréntate a tus miedos financieros (inglés)

  If money jargon or budgeting scares you, you’re not alone. Experts tell Cheryl Leong how to tackle your fears and start growing your savings. 1. I DON’T WANT TO SET MYSELF A BUDGET Budgeting is scary because it impacts on your lifestyle and takes away your freedom to spend on whatever you want. So, […]

 

Vuelven las cuentas de ahorro para los más pequeños

  12/9/2014 – An old-fashioned banking product that has fallen on hard times may be making a comeback with school kids. Passbook savings accounts are the centerpiece of a pilot program being launched this fall by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which is hoping to promote financial education and encourage children to save money. Plain-vanilla […]

 

El millonario Martin Lewis invierte en educación financiera

  31/8/2014 – SELF-MADE millionaire Martin Lewis, whose campaign to get financial education on the school curriculum has paid off after just four years, gives Jon Coates some free advice. With an almost messianic zeal, Martin Lewis has made getting value for money his life’s work. The founder of a money-saving website with 14 million […]

 

La Educación Financiera es esencial para el desarrollo social y económico, según Naciones Unidas

28/7/2014 – The financial literacy industry is calling for a heightened focus on financial education in both developed and developing countries on the heels of the release by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of its 2014 Human Development Report, which highlights alarming realities, including that nearly 1.5 billion people in 91 developing countries live […]

 

8 maneras de enseñar a tus hijos a ser financieramente independientes

23/7/14 – To help your kids master essential money skills—and some day break free from you—devote time to financial home schooling. Parents are the biggest influence on their children’s financial habits, more so than work experience or financial literacy courses, according to the National Endowment for Financial Education. For ideas on how to do this, see […]

 

Student life: an education in finance – or not

1/7/2014 – Sketchy memories of my own application in 2010 are supported by today’s deeply unsurprising news: in research conducted by Blackbullion, 83 per cent of students said that they needed more financial education. I went to university having only had my debit card for nine months, and with no overdraft. I quite memorably sat […]

 

La educación financiera debe empezar por los profesores

26/06/2014 – Para llevar con éxito la educación financiera a las escuelas y generar hábitos adecuados a edades tempranas, se requiere preparar también a los profesores, aseguraron expertos en inclusión financiera.Durante el Foro Internacional de Inclusión Financiera México 2014, destacaron la decisión del gobierno mexicano de acercar temas financieros a la educación desde el nivel básico hasta […]

 

Providing Financial Literacy to the Unbanked

In today’s world of Internet banking, smartphone shopping apps and web-based access to investment accounts, it’s easy to forget that billions of people around the world — including many millions in our own country — lag far behind when it comes to accessing even the most rudimentary financial management tools. Indeed, according to the World […]

 

La formación financiera tiene que aprender de la crisis económica (artículo en inglés)

22/06/2014 – Business education is itself a business, so it is not unusual to receive a marketing spiel when enquiring about a programme. Just occasionally, however, it is possible to detect a sense of urgency from an academic who feels he or she is on a mission. For Massimo Massa, professor of banking and finance […]

 

Uno de cada tres adultos americanos admite “infidelidad financiera”

16/6/2014 – One in three adults admitted to “financial infidelity” in a recent National Endowment for Financial Education poll, and 76 percent of those respondents said the deception affected their relationship. (“It meant nothing!” may be harder to get away with when “it” affects your credit score.) One of the most fascinating revelations is why […]