The Missing Piece in Your Financial Plan
Most financial advisors are in fact retirement planners. A retirement planner shows you the roadmap to achieve your retirement goal, by saving an adequate nest egg that can...
Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Start to Trade Futures
I invest in stocks and properties. But, when it comes to futures, I have to admit. My knowledge of it is pretty novice. I did not give much thought about futures until...
How Fast Can You Double Your Money?!
Take a look at your salary slip. If you are getting RM8,000 now, when is the time you will get RM16,000 per month? Now, check your investment portfolio. How soon can you...
My First Loss Investing with Funding Societies
Earlier this year, I wrote about Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Financing as a viable avenue for us to generate 10+% interest income from lending our capital to borrowers who primarily...
Will Prices of Motor Insurance Go Up after Liberalisation?
Before I share my views on it, let me share my recent experience of a near miss. It happened on a Wednesday. I had picked up my son from school and was driving to a nearby...
Are You Willing to Hire a Financial Planner?
There are two types of financial planners. The first type is a commission-based financial adviser. They earn a commission from the products sold to clients. In standard...
How Life Engineering Helped Rajini to Pay RM 11,432.95 in Medical Bills
Last August, I wrote about Life Engineering and its mission to keep medical cost affordable to all of us through the power of crowd sharing. Personally, I believe the idea is...
How to Buy my First Investment Property if I’m a Fresh Graduate
Lately, I received a message from my reader as stated below: ‘Hi, I’m a fresh graduate. I’d just secured my job which pays a monthly salary of RM 3,400. I would like to...
18 Years of Preparation…
One day, I received an email from a desperate mother. Her son is studying in the UK. But, due to some financial problems, she couldn’t afford to pay for her son’s college...