Rationality is often sacrificed when in hot pursuit of  investments that seem to be too good a deal.Often blinded by emotions and misinformation,these pursuits always end up in deep disappointment.Fortunately,over the years,studies by psychologists on the subject of behavioral finance and several well documented failed investments provide us…

What did Banks do when the rolled out agency Banking? They targeted these outlets to double up as their agents. It worked out nicely to begin with because the concept was easier to sell to people already involved in provision of financial services. And M-Pesa got mad, very mad.

Were you one of those who did a Luhya celebratory dance when the new Constitution was promulgated? Did you clink beer bottles and feel in your heart of hearts that it was “a new dawn” and all of Kenya’s problems were now a thing of the past? Well there's a hole there. A gaping one in fact.

I assure you, it’s not a banking product, but it ought to be. Experience by definition is “Practical contact with and observation of facts or events”. Experience needs money. Maybe we should have a bank account purely for that purpose.

It's always said Kenyan's don't read. Longhorn's financial results strongly confirm that statement. Well here's a list of places where you can get books at a reasonable price, maybe even cheap. Then let's see if you'll have an excuse not to read.

How I abhor hair. I abhor hair with a passion that is indescribable, irrevocable, undeniable, indivisible and unchanging as Father Time. I hate hair as if it is the reason men cheat and women are female dogs, as well as their own enemies. I hate hair even more than I…

Religion and money are uneasy bedfellows – they fight and squabble about who gets up to soothe the crying baby at night. They don’t agree on a single thing. The neighbours are not left out either – they discuss just how incompatible the two are and are convinced a divorce is…

They say change is the only constant in life. But where does it come from?

A lot of what we do or don't do with our money in the present determines a lot of what we would be able to do or not do in the future. Here are a couple of plans you may need.

Watching the RNC and DNC, you note that the word "tax" keeps popping up, whether it's increasing tax on the rich to peg a deficit, or even out taxes for the middle class to keep them at work and their businesses open. American politics is in a league of its own. so what's wrong with us?