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Delightful guides

A delightful guide to how we do things at Mamo - Time Management

A lot has been written about time management, with an endless slew of tools and frameworks, from The Eisenhower Framework, The Pomodoro Technique, GTD (or “Get Things Done”) to blocking out calendars, managing tasks through the overwhelming marketplace

Written with love by

Mujtaba Murtaza

Finance

The 5 commandments of a good investment portfolio

A good investment portfolio should do a few things right. Failure to do any one of these things means the portfolio is not truly achieving your investment needs.

Finance

The importance of diversification

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. This is a very well-known saying, especially in investing. If you put all your effort or assets (the eggs) in one place (the basket) and fail, then the consequences of failure are catastrophic.

Finance

How to choose an index ETF

By the end of this post you will have a pretty solid understanding about where to look for ETFs, how to judge them, and how to pick them to suit your particular investment goals.

Finance

Shredding the craziest myths about investing

Here in the Middle East, there’s a serious lack of literacy around investing. In fact, over the years I’ve collected a list of top excuses against investing. Yes, I dare to call them excuses, not reasons. In this post, we rip these myths to shreds.