{"id":285239,"date":"2025-11-15T18:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/285239\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T18:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:55:39","slug":"financial-planning-for-free-the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/285239\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial planning, for free | The Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAEVENDREN Ramachandran began consulting with a financial planner relatively early in life \u2013 while still a university student in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Although long-term financial planning was far from the minds of most students his age, he was keen to explore potential investment options, so he booked an appointment with a financial advisor at his bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RAEVENDREN Ramachandran began consulting with a financial planner relatively early in life \u2013 while still a university student&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,129499,133,129498,22914,129502,129500,129501,131,132,17483,29253],"class_list":{"0":"post-285239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-digitalwealth","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-financialliteracy","14":"tag-financialplanning","15":"tag-fintechmalaysia","16":"tag-inclusivefinance","17":"tag-investmentaccess","18":"tag-personal-finance","19":"tag-personalfinance","20":"tag-retirementsavings","21":"tag-star-biz7"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}