How To Improve Your Financial Fitness

Put your cash through its oaces with these tips from financial advisor Helen Baker

For many of us, 2020 has been a year for focusing on our health. But it’s not just our physical wellbeing we’re worried about. With change at every turn, it’s also been a time for monitoring our “financial health”.

“There’s a great deal of uncertainty arising from COVID-19,” Helen Baker, a licensed financial advisor and author of On Your Own Two Feet: Steady Steps to Women’s Financial Independence.

“We’re grappling with a global pandemic, recession, surging unemployment and uncertainty about when – and if –things will return to normal.”

But there are steps you can take to keep your finances as strong as possible.

“It’s more important than ever to start the new year [2021] on the right foot, adapt to our changed reality and make our money do some of the heavy lifting for us,” Baker says.

Follow these steps to keep your bank balance as fighting fit as possible …

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