Posts Tagged ‘personal economy’

Protect Your Wealth

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

In the last of our four-part series, Johnny McNamara looks at the danger of counter party risk and shows you how to minimise the external threat to your own personal economy.

In previous articles I have developed the concept of managing and controlling your own personal economy. The key to achieving this is to identify the areas of your finances that are in your control and to recognise the areas that are outside of your control. Where you identify an area that you have no control over, this becomes a risk to your personal economy and so, it is vital to minimise these risks every way you can.

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Reacting to Redundancy in Ireland

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Control of your personal economy is vital in protecting against external threats such as redundancy and can also allow you to take advantage of the opportunities that may arise, writes Johnny McNamara.

The current downturn in the global economy has created an environment with an ever-increasing level of threats to all of us. These threats are often outside of your control and therefore, there is little or nothing that you can do to stop them affecting you. However, the degree to which these threats affect you can be limited by taking ownership over the factors that you can control.

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NOW it’s Personal

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Your personal economy is in your hands, so know how to manage, plan and control it. By Johnny McNamara

From the risk of redundancy to the tightening of credit lines, there is no doubt that times are tough with many of us now facing our own ‘personal recession’. In the backdrop of this global economic downturn where we have all been affected in one way or another, how can you regain some element of control?

Many of the factors that are causing these problems are outside of our control and as such, we have little or no influence on them. However, there are factors in our financial lives that are firmly in our control and it is these factors that we must plan carefully to ensure that we not only survive the economic downturn, but that we are in a position to thrive when the turbulence thaws.

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