This post was guest blogged by Doug Pierce from Kuala Lumpur Property The spotlight is on the Malaysia property market and its recent reforms. Direct investment in Asia-Pacific property totalled some $100 billion last year, up 40 percent from a year earlier, according to property consultants Jones Lang LaSalle. Malaysia wants to grab as much as it can out of this year's inflow. For foreigners buying homes abroad, can Malaysia make it to the forefront? A Nod from the FIC No Longer ...

I've been following Zen Habits blog for months. Along the way, I learned a lot of tips on productivity, money, and life that I believe would change many other readers' as well. The blog author, Leo Babauta had just provided his book in digital form. I think I am among the first who immediately bought the ebook: Zen To Done: The Simple Productivity E-Book. Zen To Done is a simple system to get you more organized and productive, and keep your life saner and less stressed, with a set of habits. ...

You have heard of unit trust switching, which is a way to lock your investment gain without paying double service fees. As mentioned in my previous article about the secret of unit trust investment, switching need to be done from time to time and integrated into your portfolio rebalancing strategy. But this post, we are going to discuss about insurance switching, nothing to do with investment actually. What is insurance switching? Insurance switching is an industry jargon that's actually not known to most life insurance agents. If you follow through all my ...

Unit trust is an easy means of obtaining a spread of investment. It is suitable for passive investor, who doesn't want to, or doesn't have extra time to invest their cash savings. For an investment capital to grow, we must not underestimate the power of compound interest - what Einstein calls the "8th wonder of the world." Question from a reader This is a question from a regular reader: Does compounding interest really apply in unit trust? if so, can you show me how does it apply? If possible, please include how to ...

I've just got a new cover design for my free ebook. I am pleased with the respond so far. For the time being, I am still providing free download of the ebook as long as your provide your email in the right sidebar. But if you are reluctant to disclose your email, you can purchase the ebook from Lulu.com for $0.99. Later, I am considering the option to withdraw the free download due to the tremendous respond. I think it would be great to sell it for some profit. Before I ...

Last week, an unpleasant incident hit this site on Friday. Our hosting server was facing file system error and it was brought down for repair longer than 30 hours. That's the longest downtime I've ever experienced here. Anyway, everything is fine now except I still have some issues with certain posts that are oddly displayed. The most popular post from last week is the money saving tip about how to get a lower service charge for balanced funds. Below is the other articles around the personal finance blogosphere that I enjoyed reading ...

I've changed this blog carnival schedule to weekly instead of bi-weekly since last week. After carefully running through all the submission, I found many spam submissions. Some are "nobody"s blogs because when I read the "about" page, it says this is an example of a wordpress blog. I would like to remind other blog carnival hosts to carefully examine your carnival submissions. Everybody hate spams.Anyway, welcome to the November 3, 2007 edition of Personal Finance Money Tips. Ray Chong presents Protecting Profits - The Art Of ...

I finally completed my first ebook. Due to busy schedule, mostly because of my newborn baby, every project on hand seems stalled for quite a while. There are moments when I had to carry my son in my left arm and do the editing with my right hand. This ebook is created by compiling the best money tips from this blog. Later on, I will include more money tips. The next updated edition might be the Top 15 Money Tips. Most of the content in the ebook is available by browsing ...

For the pass 30+ hours, my website hosting server was down and need restoration. It is a total nightmare. I hope that it is all over and don't ever repeat in the future. My RSS readers drop 80%, and basically there is no visitor recorded to this website. What frustrated me is that I can't do anything about it.

MicroPlace is an eBay company that provides microfinancing to third world countries. Microfinance is the provision of small loans (microcredit) to poor people to help them engage in productive activities or grow very small businesses. Despite of earning interest return from the poor, it is in fact a win-win arrangement, where the lender get returns, and the borrower get fund to finance their businesses. How Microplace Works? Step 1: You purchase an investment on MicroPlace that provides the opportunity to earn a financial return. Step 2: Your investment dollars are used to provide ...