Mentor blog

The Mentor blog empowers you with simple and effective insights and strategies that help you make smarter financial decisions and live happier lives. No matter how much or how little your job pays, put your money to work today.

Featured posts

Investing

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.

Written with love by

Imad Gharazeddine

Stock market

Risk, volatility and correlation: ups & downs explained

As we discussed in our myth busting post, there is a huge difference between risk and volatility. Risk measures the likelihood of an investment’s failure. Volatility measures the severity of ups and downs you experience throughout an investment.

Stock market

Stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, and indexes

Walk into bank or open up the business section of any online news website, and you’ll quickly get bombarded and confused by what appears to be an endless number of complicated investment options. Finance people work hard to make you believe this false reality.

Stock market

Stock exchanges and the three asset classes

Where do you go to buy avocados? The supermarket. Where do you go to buy electronics? Amazon.ae or the local electronics store. Investing in stocks is no different; it is essentially a transaction involving a buyer and a seller in a market.

Stock market

Bonds: Investing in countries and governments

Governments spend money on different areas, all of which help provide necessary services to citizens. As you can probably imagine, these activities are costly. Raising money to ensure they are consistently managed is no easy feat. Say hello to bonds.