Sunday is a great day for a cup of coffee, sitting at your garden, setting up your laptop with wi-fi connection, and read some insightful articles.
Last week, I share about the great effect of compound interest, and also the recent practice of insurance switching. Some might notice that there is a tips included in my free ebook that’s yet to be published. As I am time-stamping my posts, more tips are compiled in my upcoming Top 15 Money Tips for Malaysian e-book.
Here is the list of articles that I personally enjoyed from last week:
· Balanced Funds: A safer approach by KKChow
Investing in a balanced fund helps unit trust investors stay focused on achieving their long term investment goals without requiring them to evaluate the prevailing market cycle.
· Best asset allocation for your portfolio | Wise Bread
As long as the economy is ticking along, the stock portion of your investment portfolio is going to provide the bulk of the gains. Because of that, it makes sense to start with a theoretical 100% stock asset allocation.
· Choosing An Asset Allocation, Step 1: Deciding On The Stocks/Bonds Ratio » My Money Blog
Studies have shown that somewhere between 77% and 94% of the variability in portfolio returns are determined by asset allocation. So our goal is to use asset classes with low correlation to get the best reward/risk ratio.
· Fantasy Stock Markets Turn Play Money Into Cash
Two new startups, The UpDown and Big Smarty, have launched fantasy stock trading games that let users compete for real cash prizes. Both take very different approaches and have vastly different aims.
· Google Stock Mania Continues – $700/share
Google’s market cap is hovering in the $220 billion range, this morning, and the stock has gained 723% since its IPO in August 2004.
· ING De-listing Medical Centres? » Meshio.Com- Designing Lifestyles!
From the insurance company’s perspective, the health claim department is one of the area which they pay most attention too, because this is one area which eats a huge chunk out of their total profit.
· Illustrated Cash Flow For Dummies
Very nice illustration about cash flow. The best I’ve seen so far!
· Reason & Excuses @ Malaysia-Finance Blogspot
Beware of “experts” commentary, 99% of them come from the same bag of tricks, the reasons are all the same … after a while they all learn to deliver each line of reason with much gusto convincingly.
· World’s Biggest Casino @ Talk and Share : Malaysia Stock Market
The stock market is the world’s biggest casino
There you’ll find people of all races, young and old
Excitedly going about their buying and selling
Some have no idea of what they are actually doing
· » Scrabble & Personal Finance: 8 Lessons From Tiles on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity
Eight, count them, eight personal finance lessons from the tiles that I think are crucial for both Scrabble and personal finance.
