Family finance includes all areas of financial management within the household. Family finance uses financial models, especially behavioral financial models, to analyze and improve the family unit’s financial behavior. These models are less complex than those used for managing businesses or nations, but not by far.
Family finance deals with the following topics:
- Budget plan vs. reality.
- Managing a balance sheet.
- Budgetary monitoring and achieving financial goals.
- Managing personal and familial risks.
Family finances guidance also touches on psychology, sociology, and mentoring.
At its core, family finance handles several issues that influence the family unit’s home life. Here are the main issues:
- Looking at the income and the expenses and making sure the former is bigger than the latter.
- Defining clear goals and objectives (that change over time) for the family unit.
- Investing the surplus of income in a better way in order to create future income that will support the goals.
- Primarily, learn how to operate within the new, complex and demanding world the family lives in.
- Constantly manage the financial products that usually operate without the supervision of “a responsible adult.”
The main challenges of the modern family and its behavior:
- Lack of knowledge and understanding of proper financial behavior, which only grows in complexity over the years.
- Increased life-expectancy, which requires one to plan goals and objectives for their retirement.
- Decreasing occupational stability – changing workplaces, getting fired, occupations that are no longer relevant, etc.
- The effects of globalization on companies’ financial resilience and on their needs, which, in turn, affect the family unit.
- The growing complexity of investment products and the need to adjust them to personal and familial needs (numerous possible countries to invest in, shares, bonds, commodities, foreign currency, digital coins, index trackers, realistic real-estate in Israel and abroad, etc.).
- Controlling poor purchase impulses that come from comparison to others, pressure from their surroundings, the ease of purchase in the digital world, etc.
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