Week Roundup & more Personal Finance Advice

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by KCLau

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Next week, I will start a series of post introducing and dissecting Great Eastern Life Assurance insurance products. You will get a very details explanation of the product features and who is suitable for which kind of plans. I will tear the insurance product apart to show you the value in the plan. There are more than 2 new insurance products launched every year from each insurance company, in the form of riders, newly revised better version of old plan and some are even totally redesigned policies. I will start the week with the best selling insurance product.

Before that, here is a roundup of the post in this blog in the past week.

  • Top 10 Money Lessons by Dissecting Billionaire Leona Hemsley’s Will
    • Leona Hemsley, dubbed by the press as the “Queen of Mean” for her demanding ways and irascible personality, passed away in August 2007 leaving behind an estimated total estate of $5 billion. Alongside her husband, Harry, Helmsley ran a $5 billion real estate empire that at one time…
  • CEO’s Expectations on Budget 2008
    • Business Times publish interviews of local corporate CEO about the expectation on Budget 2008.Datuk Tony Fernandes, chief executive officer of AirAsia reduce personal tax & corporate tax to spur economic growthlost taxes will be replaced by greater consumptionreduction in fuel subsidies. The…
  • Palm biodiesel investment still viable?
    • # Governments acknowledge the threats of global warming. This leads to the need to secure renewable energy source.# Bioethanol and biodiesel are the two most common biofuels used worldwide# Surge in biodiesel demand caused by rising crude oil prices and Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas…
  • MyRates.com.my : Your One Stop Solution for Financial Products Comparison
    • MyRates.com.my is a website providing up-to-date financial rates for borrowing and investing. It is own by a local Malaysian company which is independent from any financial institution. Save your time going from bank to bank to compare Fixed Deposit rates, or home loan offers. MyRates is aimed to…
  • Blog Carnivals of Personal Finance in August
  • Best Money Tips August Roundup
    • Compilation of the best tips happening around the web about personal financial planning in Malaysia

Following up is the blog carnivals that happened around the personal finance blogosphere: (blog carnival is a host of many articles about the same topic at one post)

Next are the articles I read from my feed reader, which I add a “star” to it which I think you will be interested to read too. This the list of the great articles I like to share with you:

  • Silicon Valley Blogger explain various investing styles: invest early, invest regularly, stay invested, technical vs fundamental analysis, growth vs value, contratrian vs momentum, active vs passive and asset allocation. It pretty much summarizes the investment knowledge you should learn.
  • Bryan show how he can hedge energy stocks against commodity movements. The idea behind the strategy is that an investor has a long exposure to oil and natural gas companies and hedges that exposure with a short position in an oil or natural gas commodity ETF .
  • Last but not least, Allen Taylor ask us to learn the 7 things about how to trade our investment

I’ll see you around next week with a series of insurance product analysis. Have a great Sunday reading session.

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