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Women’s Month is a time to celebrate the strength and independence of women. Managing your own finances, especially when facing peer pressure, is a crucial part of this independence. At Bayport Financial Services, we understand these challenges.

This Women’ s Month, let’s focus on an essential aspect of financial empowerment for women: having pre-commitment money conversations. At Bayport Financial Services, we believe that open and honest financial discussions are key to ensuring financial stability in a healthy relationship or marriage.

August is Women’s Month, a time to celebrate the strength, resilience, and achievements of women. It’s also a perfect opportunity to focus on financial empowerment. At Bayport Financial Services, we believe in the power of connections and social capital to transform lives. Here’s how you can use these tools to move closer to financial freedom.

According to the 2022 census, 42% of South Africa’s 18 million households are headed by women. These might be single mothers, same-sex couples, widows or divorced women, or married couples where the woman is the breadwinner and/or responsible for household finances. Whoever they are, we celebrate these women on Women’s Day and every other day.

To become a financially empowered woman, it is best to be a financially empowered girl. Let’s talk about talking about money with our daughters.

It’s not often that the name of a year can reflect our ambitions, but with 2023 we get lucky. By slightly changing how you say “three”, you can remind yourself every day of this year of your goal to be free from money worries. Here at Bayport, that’s exactly what we have decided to do.Read more

The holidays are a time for fun, but it is also a time for keeping a very close eye on your budget. That doesn’t mean you can’t spend; it only means that you have to be clever about it.

No Spend November is an actual thing. It doesn’t mean you spend no money; you simply spend money only on necessities.

Black Friday, with all its mind-blowing specials can seem like a shopper’s paradise. However, if you are not careful, it is your budget that will be blown away.

Money conversations can be powerful vehicles for change by improving financial literacy and financial wellbeing – and by removing family conflict.