About Kez Duxbury Kez Duxbury is a UK-based public relations professional, media contact, and personal finance expert. He is dedicated to simplifying complex financial concepts for everyday consumers, covering topics such as APR, interest payments, investments, cryptocurrency safety, budgeting, and side hustles. His career spans extensive experience in corporate and financial PR. He currently serves as the Finance Lead and media representative at Press Box PR, where he manages communications for companies in the fintech, […]

Our monthly Singapore expense report for July 2026. A few days in Malaysia still kept spending light, and the quarterly dividends pushed the net difference to a $3,696 surplus, the second biggest since January. The post FIRE Trial Expense Report — July 2026: A Malaysia Trip In A Dividend-Rich Month appeared first on Turtle Investor.

I know people on £100k who feel skint, and people on £35k who feel totally in control. The difference is structure: where their money actually lives. Every pound needs a job and a place to do it. So here’s the six-account ladder. The first three run your month. The next three build wealth in the background. Then there’s a bonus account at the end that most people either use badly or ignore completely. If you’d […]

For the last several years, people have been waiting for a housing crash that never came. Home prices kept climbing. Buyers kept competing over asking price. Every prediction of a collapse quietly expired. Here’s what most of those predictions missed. A real estate crash did happen. It just happened in commercial real estate, apartment buildings, retail, and office, not in the housing market most people are watching. Same interest rate environment. Two completely different outcomes. […]

The Chase Sapphire Reserve has become a divisive premium credit card. It used to offer a simple set of benefits that were easy to understand and use, but after its recent refresh, the card now looks much more like other high-fee cards. It comes with a long list of credits that can help offset the annual fee, but many of them require extra effort or specific spending habits. Whether the card is worthwhile depends on […]

Divorce does not just reorganize your household. It reorganizes your finances after divorce from the ground up. That adjustment can feel just as disorienting as the emotional side of the split. One income becomes your income. One name comes off the mortgage, or maybe it stays on longer than you would like. The accounts you used to share now need to be untangled, closed, or rebuilt in your name alone. Recovering your finances after divorce […]

Have you been offered a job that pays $29 an hour, wondering if it is good enough? You may be asking yourself: $29 an hour is how much a year? Let’s determine how much you can earn in a year, month, week, or day, depending on the number of hours you put into the job. As one of the employees who works on an hourly basis, you want to know if you can have a […]

We review Octopus Energy and if it’s worth it for your power usage. We also cover the benefits of the Octoplus rewards scheme. The post Octopus Energy & Octoplus Review (2026): Is It Worth It? appeared first on The Financial Wilderness.