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"Well-being" is defined as the "set of things necessary to live well" and what does everyone need to live well? Peace of mind and peace of mind comes from having your finances in order, understanding what is happening with your money and having the confidence that you are getting the most out of it. To do this, "the first thing we should do is set some financial goals, each of us has our own, from there we must have control of what we enter, what we spend and how much we save," says Professor Puig. say, make a budget.

From there, it is convenient to have an "emergency fund", money saved that we can have immediately. In addition, we may consider taking out some insurance that covers us for those risks that we fear the most. "There are many types of insurance", recalls the professor, "the important thing is that they all work in the same way (...) on the one hand there is the premium, which is the amount of money we pay monthly or annually to insure what interests us and, on the other hand, there is the compensation, which is the amount we would receive if something happened with which we have insured ".

Once we have our backs saved, we can consider getting a certain return on our savings.

"We must look for products that are consistent with our profile and the risk that we are willing to assume", warns Puig, "contrary to what many people think, investment is not something reserved only for some. There are some products with which Small investors can access investments as varied as those being made by large investors. "

Improve financial culture

All these tips from Professor Puig are part of

Much to Do

, CaixaBank's financial culture project to bring access to this knowledge closer to the population. In addition to the expert's notions, each month CaixaBank shares an interview conducted by Helena Resano with a relevant figure on the national scene under this umbrella. In it, they share their personal and professional experiences to illustrate how important it is to handle basic financial concepts in order to achieve our goals in life.

On this occasion, Elena García Armada, shares in Much to Do how, with effort and determination, she has been able to achieve her greatest challenge: improving the lives of others. The CSIC researcher has led the development of the first pediatric exoskeleton to help children with serious mobility problems walk. "When we give them the opportunity to play with other children, something they always dreamed of, but perhaps they never thought would happen ... That makes them feel like superheroes because it means having superpowers for them," explains the engineer.

The germ of his innovative capacity is precisely in his childhood, "I was the handyman at home, I always helped my father when something had to be fixed". While her father taught her to fix things, her mother, a scientist, inspired her: "For girls it is important to find contemporary flesh and blood references who are like their mother, like their brothers, like the people who cross the street. street, let them see that being a scientist is not being weird. " Referents like herself, who has become one of the most important scientists in the country.

After creating the world's first pediatric exoskeleton, the engineer could be considered to have peaked, but nothing could be further from the truth.

"In the field in which I work, technology, robotics, bionics ... we are at the tip of the iceberg, there is a lot to do and we have many possibilities to improve the life and quality of life of many, many people", assures the engineer, "my dream is to continue sketching those smiles in children, in the elderly, in adults ... that people regain their life and happiness."

You can watch the full interview here.

CaixaBank Life, the financial culture portal

Along with the Much to Do program, CaixaBank has created a hub, CaixaBank Life, through which it disseminates all the basic financial concepts related to the population's most frequent life projects.

All face-to-face activities to improve knowledge of financial education in Spain that the entity has historically promoted have been complemented with digital content and audiovisual resources, which can be accessed for free through CaixaBank Life, located within the global portal of the entity.

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