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Should You Invest in Equity Funds in Kenya?
Not everyone should invest in equity funds in Kenya. Use this practical framework to assess your time horizon, financial stability, and risk tolerance before investing.
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Evergreen, reference-style guides.
Equity Funds in Kenya: A Beginner’s Guide
Learn what an equity fund is, how your money is invested on the NSE, what drives returns and volatility, and why Kenya’s concentrated stock market changes the risk.
4 minutes to read
Equity Funds in Kenya
This article breaks down how these funds operate, what drives their performance, and the risks investors must weigh before investing. It is a practical guide for anyone navigating Kenya’s evolving equity fund market.
16 minutes to read
Pension Funds in Kenya
Pension funds are a key tool to ensuring one remains financially active into old age. So how do they work, and how can you benefit from them?
47 minutes to read
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The Real Reason Your Budgets Break (And How to Stop It)
Why does your budget keep failing? It’s rarely a math problem, but a behavioral one. Learn how time discounting sabotages your finances, and the step-by-step framework to fix it.
7 minutes to read
Why Traditional Budgeting Fails When Your Income Isn’t Stable (And What to Do Instead)
If your income fluctuates but your bills are fixed, traditional monthly budgeting will fail you. Learn how to align your budget with your actual cash flow.
4 minutes to read
A Beginner’s Guide to Commodity Trading in Kenya
We cover how commodity markets work, what moves prices, trading risks, and how to start safely.
4 minutes to read
Chumz App Review
Chumz enables micro-saving from KES 5 via M-Pesa. It encourages savings via behavioral nudges, challenges, and group savings for chamas. The review weighs accessibility and security against modest returns and reliance on user discipline.
3 minutes to read
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Newsletter-native essays and issues.
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The Starting Point of Riches
A practical reflection on where wealth begins: earning, deciding to build assets, and letting disciplined saving compound over time.
7 minutes to read
The Five Ways to Become Rich
If you are really serious about becoming rich, there are five primary ways you can make a fortune:
Entrepreneurship At the top of the list, and the most common ways people genuinely build wealth is entrepreneurship, that is, starting and building a successful business. This includes farming, real estate, to computers. Up to 70% of self-made millionaires worldwide come from self-owned businesses. An individual started with a product or service, turned it into a business and built it from the ground floor up, and as a result - they became wealthy. Well known examples from America are Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, and Bill Gates. From around the world - abc from Kenya, xyz from Nigeria and efg from Britain. And there are millions of others.
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