Articles from the author

The efforts of a few responsible decision-makers have influenced the fast and steady growth and general prosperity of the UAE, particularly Dubai.

You hear employees complaining about their managers snooping around looking for private information, opening the employees' desks when they are not around, listening to their phone conversations, sometimes even taping the phone lines, reading their e-mail, inquiring about medical or financial records - all without prior consent from the employee - or simply asking another employee to spy on his/her colleague.

Titles like Smart Money, Your Money, Invest Money, Money Making, Only-Money, Money Homepage, Secured Money, Money Management, Unclaimed Money, MSN Money, Money.net, etc. abound now in our societies, whether in books, magazines, articles or on the Internet.

Bankruptcy laws are established to protect a failing company from further deterioration by helping it to recover from crippling debts, reorganise and get back to a profitable situation or simply to close.

It was thrilling news to see the Saudi Kingdom legalising insurance and making medical and motor insurance mandatory. Insurance as in the Islamic cooperative form has been recognised as a very important part of the modern economy structure of any advanced country.

Forward Planning: Some sound resolutions for the New Year

In a credit-crazy society like America, most people spend all their life on borrowed money no mater how much they earn and what they have in their bank account.

Looking at the rising rate of road accidents and the severity of these accidents makes one wonder if there is a way out of this crazy situation.

As the world is becoming smaller, with distances as short as a stroke on a PC keyboard and pictures from everywhere coming to our homes on the TV through satellite signals, we are required to move even faster to comprehend all the changes around us and employ them to our benefit.

I am very glad to write my 52nd article of 'Forward Planning'. It has, indeed, been a year since I was encouraged by Gulf News to answer questions and discuss insurance, personal finance, financial security, investment and savings.

In last week's article, I talked about the many ways of passing one's estate on to one's heirs: the traditional ones with all their financial risks like probate, creditors, lawsuits, judgments, lawyers and death taxes or the case of dying intestate, another situation where our loved ones and heirs are faced with many legal difficulties.

We all have one form of insurance coverage or another, whether life, car, business, liability, fire, marine, engineering, personal accident, medical or any other type of insurance.