The Daily Dinar

Austrolabe have published a great article about the state of Islamic finance in Australia and some of the opportunities it represents (and challenges). It’s written by Ozrisk, who is an expert on banking and finance, and is well worth a read.
In the longer term, some of the Shariah-compliant products may also appeal to non-Muslim […]

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Zenhabits has the answer:
I submit that I save at least $3,000 a year (and possibly more). How? Well, my co-workers often spend $10-15 per meal on lunch. A brown-bagged lunch costs between $1-3. If you save $11-12 every weekday, for 52 weeks of the year, you get about $3,000. Now, if you also eat out […]

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The Simple Dollar have some excellent advice on how to organise your filing cabinet. This is well worth reading.
After you’ve organised your filing cabinet, Seeking Alpha have some advice for you on which financial documents you should keep and which documents you should discard.

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When it comes to managing one’s personal finances, good software can make all the difference; particularly if your financial dealings are more complicated than a single bank account and an ATM card. Throw in some shares, an investment property and the need to manage depreciation on some work-related assets and things can become a […]

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Free Money Finance has a great post demonstrating the importance of managing one’s career. They offer a case study of four college students who each graduate at 22 and start off with jobs earning $25,000 p.a.
Graduate A didn’t manage his career well and only managed a 3% average annual increase in wages. […]

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Yahoo! Finance list five ways in which people often think they are saving money but are, in fact, actually losing money.
1. Buying gas at the least expensive gas station. This only makes sense if you are going past the gas station anyway and don’t need to go out of your way to reach it. […]

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Open up any book on personal finance or read any blog or website on the subject, and it’s likely you’ll come across one piece of sagely advice: pay yourself first. If there is anything like a universally accepted rule of managing one’s finances, then this it.
Everyone accepts that saving is a good thing. However, […]

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