Moment of Clarity: Guy Chennells - Financial upside of being confined to barracks

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It takes 33 days to break a bad habit (or create a new one) and with SA's lockdown now extending four times that long, actuary Guy Chennells highlights an unexpected upside. In this Moment of Clarity, the GM of Discovery Employee Benefits shares that the behavioural change wrought by an enforced change in his spending habits is the kind of thing we should all hold onto.

1 Aug 2020 6AM English South Africa Business · Business News

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