Tips Your Old, Reliable Winter Sweater: Emergency Funds Not having an emergency fund is basically like walking shirtless on a Winter’s day. It’s unpleasant. Find out why you should start your emergency fund today. Busisiwe Mtsweni Feb 3, 2023 • 3 min read
Tips Why & How to Set Financial Goals This new year we’ve had a lot of new goals set in the app. Now that quitters day has passed you should be able to gauge just how committed you are to those goals. Tara Williams Jan 26, 2023 • 3 min read
Tips How to Save Money to Avoid Financial Difficulties Are you fed up with being broke all the time? Do you want to learn how to avoid financial difficulties? Here are a few tips to get you started! Abbie Clark Dec 8, 2022 • 4 min read
Tips Cut Back, Grow a Beard Given high fuel prices and interest rates on the rise, people have less money and are looking for ways to spend less. Here are some ways you can go about doing so. Thomas Brennan Sep 28, 2022 • 2 min read
Tips Need a Quick Fix? Just when everything seems to be going smoothly; a random pothole ruins your tyres (and your day). Saving for doomsday isn't as fun as saving for a holiday, but you just might have to. Miyabo Miyabo Sep 15, 2022 • 2 min read
Tips Money Management In The Gig Economy Over the past few years, many people have made the transition from normal 9-5 jobs to working in the gig economy. So here's a breakdown on managing money in these roles. Sebastian Patel Sep 1, 2022 • 3 min read
Tips Funding Your Side-hustle: Mo People, No Problems From forcing my parents to buy me CDs for the car to playing gigs as a DJ, I’ve always loved music. So, how do you gather up the money to start a side-hustle like DJ’ing? Dylan Solin Aug 19, 2022 • 3 min read
Tips Why Is Saving A Challenge? In this article, we’ll discuss how you can save through savings challenges and go over some savings challenges Franc has started to help some of our users. Rele Tsoai Jul 28, 2022 • 3 min read
Lifestyle 3 Tips To Avoid a Budget Blowout When Designing Your Home Interior Blowing your budget when designing your home interior quickly and swiftly becomes immensely stressful. So here are some sure fire tips to avoid a budget blowout. Keshia Wylie Jul 21, 2022 • 5 min read
Investing Can I Trust Financial Advice? The honest truth is that unless you’re already wealthy and have a complicated personal financial situation, you probably don’t need a financial advisor. Thomas Brennan May 5, 2022 • 4 min read
Tips Tax-Free Account or Retirement Annuity? If you’re starting on the long journey of creating a nest egg, you might look into tax-free accounts and retirement annuities. They’re not actually mutually exclusive, but in this life, it’s important to know what you’re buying and why. Nicolas Oldert Apr 28, 2022 • 3 min read
Tips Budgeting For a Car Buying a car is a huge financial commitment, there’s so much to consider. This article has 4 important financial considerations to make when budgeting for a car. Tara Williams Apr 1, 2022 • 3 min read
Investing Income vs Capital Growth Income earned and realised capital gains (when you sell something for more than you paid) have different tax consequences. This is one of the considerations to make when investing. Sebastian Patel Mar 9, 2022 • 3 min read
Tips Tips For Increasing Your Savings You mean well and try to spend less, but something always comes up. The good news is there are plenty of straightforward ways to save money and breathe some fresh air into your budget. LocumBase Mar 3, 2022 • 3 min read
Investing What Are Digital Assets? Since Bitcoin’s debut in 2009, the idea of using blockchain or similar cryptographic software to create cryptocurrencies and other types of assets has mushroomed wildly. But how do we understand the phenomenon? Jenicka Barker Feb 22, 2022 • 3 min read
Lifestyle 4 Different Valentine's Day Gifts Are you looking for an alternative to the usual flashy jewellery? Are your arts and crafts skills lacking? Is a house full of flowers too basic? Tara Williams Feb 9, 2022 • 3 min read
Tips 6 Ways to Save Money as a Student Saving can seem like an impossible and daunting task when you’re a student, but that's why we've listed some tips that students can take advantage of. Anelisa Maswana Jan 25, 2022 • 2 min read
Updates About Franc's Risk Assessment What is "risk" when it comes to money and investing? This article answers that question and explains how Franc's in-app risk assessment helps our users. Nicolas Oldert Jan 18, 2022 • 3 min read
Investing Don't Cash in on Your Retirement Savings Early If you resign or are retrenched from your employment, you are able to access your Retirement Investments. Doing so could jeapordise your ability to retire comfortably. Sebastian Patel Dec 8, 2021 • 4 min read
Tips Supporting Our Parents in Retirement The sad reality is that many retirees have not saved enough money to meet their financial needs in retirement. This means a lot of children may land up supporting their parents. Thomas Brennan Dec 1, 2021 • 2 min read
Investing Differences Between Investing and Trading Investing and trading are often confused, just like investing and saving sometimes are. However, there are quite a few major differences between the two. Sebastian Patel Nov 23, 2021 • 3 min read
Tips Good Debt and Bad Debt In this article we're going to explain a bit more about debt – what makes it bad… and when it is good. Nicolas Oldert Nov 16, 2021 • 4 min read
Tips Can You Have Too Many Savings Accounts? The answer to this question might actually be something that the whole of the internet agrees on, well the first page of Google at least. Tara Williams Nov 10, 2021 • 3 min read
Tips Your Money Is Losing Value In A Bank Account A healthy bank account balance means not being in the red for most people. The problem is the money sitting in your bank account is doing absolutely nothing for you. Thomas Brennan Oct 26, 2021 • 3 min read
News Inflation and Covid-19 You may have seen articles about the decision by the SA Reserve Bank last week to keep interest rates unchanged. What does this have to do with your savings plan? Nicolas Oldert Oct 7, 2021 • 3 min read