This blog is alive for a year. Thanks to your support. Without the ever growing readership and ad revenue, this website would have die off long time ago. Before I wish you a happy new year, here are the yearly review of all the important articles in different categories:
Personal Finance Books Review
- How to retain your great employees
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Doubters Read This
- The 4-Hour Workweek: My Story & Why You Need this Book
- The Millionaire Mind: Think and act like a millioaire
- Top 10 Money Tips for Malaysian: The FREE ebook
- Zen To Done: The Simple Productivity E-Book
- Best List of Personal Finance Books in Malaysia
Estate Planning
- Cloning Your Life Values via Trust
- Estate Will be Passed on to Beneficiaries, How about Debt?
- Top 10 Money Lessons by Dissecting Billionaire Leona Hemsley’s Will
- Child Protection: Setup Incentive Living Trust
- Managing Risk of Double Tragedy
- Save money by writing Will
Insurance Planning
- 5 Things You Can Do if Your Insurance Claim is Rejected
- 8 Questions Financial Health Check
- Beware of the Worst Advice from Insurance Agents
- Bought lousy plan from the best company
- Can You Claim Death Benefit of Life Insurance Plan on Suicides?
- Definition of 36 Critical Illnesses or Dread Diseases in Insurance Policy
- Do you need Insurance Switching?
- Do you qualify to save?
- EPF Money available for critical illness insurance in 2008
- Everything about Life Insurance Company in Malaysia
- How Much Critical Illness Insurance Cover do you Need?
- How to Avoid Investment-linked Policy Lapse
- How to Read Great Eastern Investment-linked Policy Statement
- Insurance Agent: Don’t over promise, if not you will be the joke!
- Investment Replacement Feature in Investment-linked Policy that Beat Unit Trust
- Investment-linked vs. Traditional Insurance
- Life insurance is CHEAP?!
- Market Penetration of Life Insurance in Malaysia grew to 39.3% | I think it is lower
- Paying Monthly Life Insurance Premium charge 10.80%
- Read This If You are still not Insured
- ROI of insurance
- Sum Assured = Level of Love
- The 7 Most Essential Facts from an Insurance Claim Report
- Top 10 reason to buy life insurance
- Types of Life Insurance Benefits
- What Happen to your Life Insurance Without Nomination?
- What is the First Insurance Policy We should buy for our Child? | Case Study
- When Should We Review Our Life Insurance Coverage?
- Why you should first buy Investment-linked Insurance Policy
Great Eastern Life Assurance
- Best Products from Great Eastern Life Insurance Malaysia
- Great Eastern MediCare 100: Protected up to hundred years old
- Great Eduplanner: Education Endowment Insurance Plan
- Great Junior/Income Advantage Series 2 : Whole Life Income Plan
- Greatlife Portfolio Insurance – Regular Premium Investment Link Plan
- Investment-linked, Supreme Livin’ Care Plus and GMBS, Which to buy?
- Supreme Care: Whole Life Non-Par Insurance Plan
- Supreme Livin’ Care Plus: Whole Life Living Assurance policy with Cash Bonus
Wealth Accumulation / Investment
- 3 elements of Wealth Accumulation
- Are you trading? Gambling? Speculating? or Investing?
- Cash on Cash Return vs ROI
- Do you qualify to save?
- How to Quickly Evaluate an Investment using the Rule of 72
- How to Trade Stock at Bursa Malaysia: Investing Basic
- Invest Wisely, End Poverty: MircoPlace Provides you the Platform
- Is Venture Capital an asset class?
- Leverage in Investment
- Palm biodiesel investment still viable?
- Should You Invest in Foreign Currency Accounts?
- Talk and Share your Stock Market Investment Experience
- What is a Zero-coupon Negotiable Instruments of Deposit (ZNID)?
- What is Value-Cost Averaging?
- World Market in a Glance: StockQ.org
- Income – Saving = Expenses
- Simple Strategies to PAY YOURSELF FIRST
- Top 4 Methods to Enjoy Tax Relief for Education Purpose
Unit Trust Investment
- Are Unit Trusts Lousy Investment?
- Asset Allocation Application in Unit Trust Investment
- Bottom Up Approach in Unit Trust Investment Malaysia
- Can One Consultant Give You Access to All Unit Trust ?
- Does Compound Interest Really Apply to Unit Trust Investment?
- Everything about Unit Trust in Malaysia
- How to Minimize the Upfront Service Charge in Unit Trust Investment
- How to monitor unit trust portfolio using Signal Invest
- Is Capital Guaranteed Fund a Good Investment?
- Lower Service Charge for Balanced Funds
- Ringgit or Dollar Cost Averaging
- The secret of investing in Unit Trust
- When is the Perfect Time to Rebalance our Investment Portfolio?
- Top-Down Approach in Unit Trust Investment
- What do I look for in a unit trust fund?
- What is Infrastructure Funds and Should You Invest?
Real Estate Investments
- Are Penang Real Properties too hot?
- Flipping Real Estate: Buy at New Property Launch
- Malaysia is Moving on Up in the Minds of Foreign Investors
- Why Invest in Land?
Time Value of Money Tutorials
- How to calculate the value of single sum investment {Time Value of Money Tutorial}
- Finding the Rate of Return to Meet Financial Goals {Time Value of Money Tutorial}
- Computing the Value of a Fixed Sum Invested Regularly {Time Value of Money Tutorial}
Mortgage
- Mortgage: the cheapest debt
- Refinancing Home Loan: Save Mortgage Interest
- Save interest on homeloan
- When to Refinance Your Home Loan
- Case Study: Why You Should Refinance even with Penalty
- Beware of the Lock-in Period of your Home Loan Offer Letter
- Choose the Interest Rate Package that Suits Your Risk Appetite
- How to Settle Your Loans Earlier
- Question you should Ask Before You Sign the Home Loan Offer Letter
Wealth Management
- $10 to $1 million: How Long Does It Take?
- 3 types of income: Active, Portfolio and Passive Income
- 8 Questions Financial Health Check
- Analyze Income & Expenses Flow in Your Life with Practical Advices
- Are you a Financial Idiot or Genius? Plot Your Net Worth Chart!
- Budgeting Personal Finance: List of Free Excel Spreadsheet that help
- Diagnose before prescribe: Consultant vs Agent
- Earning for the Past, Present and Future
- Feel Wealthy
- Get Rich using Excessive Debt
- Hacking your Cash Flow & Net Worth Chart
- How Much a Typical Fresh Grad Spend?
- How Much is Adequate for Emergency Fund
- How rich are you?
- Money Lessons from Tranformers movie
- Money won’t make you rich
- Net Worth vs. Age
- Overview of Personal Financial Planning Practices
- Sell + Fish = Selfish
- Should you focus on Increasing income or reducing expenses?
- Sleeping partner without capital
- Top 21 List of Financial Sotfware and Application for Efficient Money Management
- Wealth Accumulator Formula
- What’s your real ASSET?
- What’s Your Time Worth?
- Why Should Couple Combine Finances? And How?
Financial Planners
- Financial Planner is a hybrid of Salesperson and Specialist
- Financial Planner is Like An Architect
- Financial Planner is not a Money Magician
- Financial Planner is Your Best Friend
- Financial Planner speaks like a lawyer, a doctor or an accountant?
- Making you rich is not a financial planner’s responsibility
- Top Quality of a Perfect Personal Financial Planner
- Why engage Estate planner rather than a lawyer to write your WILL?
The 4-hour Workweek Series
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Doubters Read This {Book Review}
- The 4-Hour Workweek: My Story & Why You Need this Book {Book Review}
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Chronology of a Pathology {Book Review}
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Cautions and Comparisons {Book Review}
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Rules That Change the Rules {Book Reviews}
It has been a great year for me. I wish you a prosperous new year ahead!
Happy New YEAR!!!
Dividends4Life January 9, 2008 at 3:25 am
Wow, that is a comprehensive list of articles. Thanks for pulling them together and sharing the links.
Best Wishes,
D4L
J. Thomson May 9, 2008 at 9:28 pm
A bit late, but thank you for the compilation of websites!
Unfortunately I’m not yet personally in the need for “wealth management”, as I’m still struggling with some CC debts (it’s looking way better than a year ago, though…). I have personally had use for various calculators, as I’m not too keen with maths. Maybe http://www.mortgageloan.com/calculator/ or similar would fit into next years list.
Do you have any similar resource list with debt-related advice?
Lee June 27, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Hi, would like to check what is the different between ING – Income Plan with GE – Income Plan? As I heard from people saying that Ing plan give interest 10++% per annum, it is true. Thanks.
Lee
KCLau July 1, 2008 at 2:33 pm
@ Lee,
I can’t believe that an income plan provided by insurance company will give more than 10% return p.a. I am talking about effective annual rate, that is comparable to FD 3.7%.
Normally, this kind of plan gives an average of 5% p.a.
Yu July 2, 2008 at 8:56 am
hi, i cant download the ebook. can you send to me via email? my email is sy.fan@sem.sharp-world.com. thank you.
KCLau July 2, 2008 at 10:17 am
I had sent the ebook to you via email
Lee November 28, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Hi, I am holding a investment linked plan since YR2001. Since Yr2001 until now, the above policy have accumulated no of units. And I am planning to sell the unit accumulated and leave the min units required in order for my policy not to lapse.
1) Is there any effect on my policy other than I may need to paid the premium for longer period.
2) If I used the cash received to buy units trust, I may can received distribution from the unit invested as compare to I leave my accumulated units in the policy which only in capital appreciation , am I right?
thanks for your advice
Lee