For all those who are my friend at facebook, probably by now, you have already knew that I was one of the major resource speaker in yesterday’s Blog World Philippines 2010 where I talked about the special topic of Financial Blogging. It was my first major speaking engagement. I was surprised the day I received an invitation from Sir Leo Fuentes, the President and CEO of Asian Institute of E-Commerce. They have campuses mostly located in Pangasinan. It was attended by a lot of students

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I am a fan of the word “best”. Just before the year ends, Fortune Magazine released it’s Best of the Best Companies in 2009. Which of the companies are considered best to work for? Which of the companies are the best when it comes to revenues? Which if the companies are considered the best among all other companies? Definitely, you would like to know it too. Here are the list that Fortune Magazine released. Given the chance, I definitely would like in one of these companies

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In one of my earlier posts, I invited my regular readers to be a part of the Rich Dad Asia Live 2009 Event here in the Philippines. Yesterday, November 30, 2009, I attended the said event. It was held at Diamond Hotel. I was there at around 9:45am and late for breakfast. I liked the introduction of dreams as goals and targets for us to empower ourselves. Laurus Enterprises, the official organizer of Rich Dad Asia Event here in the Philippines hired a group of visually impaired singers to

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Time flies so fast! After 234 articles and 1,637 comments, it’s been one year now since I launched this blog, Millionaire Acts. Today, November 24, 2009 is the first-year anniversary of Millionaire Acts. I clearly remember last year, November 24, 2008 when I created this blog. Back then, since I don’t have any background on programming, I hired a web developer to make a professional-looking blog site. A lot of my readers asks me why did I choose the domain name “Millionaire

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We’ve talked about the current recession before and we know that the main thing that triggered it is the subprime mortgage crisis which originated from several investment banks. But what about a more severe economic downturn called depression? According to Wikipedia: In economics, depression involves sustained, long-term downturn economic activity. While recession is seen as a part of a normal business cycle, depression is a sustained recession. It is characterized by abnormal increase

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I am happy to announce to my readers that this blog, Millionaire Acts, is featured in today’s Manila Bulletin Blog-O-Rama. This is my fifth public blog feature. If you have today’s Manila Bulletin issue, turn it to Tech News page D2. For my readers in other countries, Manila Bulletin is one of the leading newspaper here in the Philippines. Today’s feature is entitled “A blog on how to be a millionaire” which is what this blog is all about - for all aspiring

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Each one of us is capable to make a change in our country and in this world. SEAChange, South East Asia’s largest youth movement for personal change wants you to voice out your opinion on how can you make a change and do some difference in this world. SEACHANGE is an ongoing movement connecting Southeast Asian Youths to projects, organizations, businesses, and leaders who can help them with the change they want to see! In line with this, there will be a Youth Engagement Summit 2009 to

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I’m sure you are now all familiar with the movie “Slumdog Millionaire” by Danny Boyle. It gathered the most number of awards from the recent Oscars Awards. It’s all about the story of Jamal Malik, an 18-year old orphan from slums on Mumbai in India. He joined the Hindi version of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” game show and won. With the whole country watching the show, he is just one question away from winning the grand prize of 20 million rupees.

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What are the common traits and qualities of billionaires? Note that we are talking here of billionaires, not just millionaires. Billionaires hold most of the world’s riches. They are taipans and tycoons of their respective businesses. I was browsing an article in Yahoo Finance and I found these interesting facts about billionaires. I thought that it’s worth to share with you as you may find some of these qualities interesting and odd. The study was conducted on Forbes 400 richest

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Hello all, as one of the followers of the teachings of the famous Robert Kiyosaki, the author of the best selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad, I would like to invite all to the upcoming Rich Dad Asia Event here in the Philippines this coming November 30, 2009. In cooperation with Laurus Enterprises, the official organizer of Rich Dad Asia here in the Philippines, Bellum Tan, Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Ambassador to Asia will be coming from Singapore to the Philippines to talk about

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In my pursuit for further educating myself when it comes to achieving financial freedom, I enrolled myself in a free online coaching in the Rich Dad Poor Dad lessons of Robert Kiyosaki. In one of the chapters of the e-learning that I’ve been reading, Robert Kiyosaki suggested the Rich Dads Get Rich Strategies in which he used to get out of the rat race and become a business owner and investor. I would like to share it all to you my readers so we can also use it to achieve financial

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Are you curious to know who are among the top Philippine companies in 2009? The Wall Street Journal recently conducted a survey of top 200 companies in Asia. Their project started in August 2008 when they compiled a lists of Asian companies traded on stock exchanges. A total of 2,622 executives and professionals participated in the survey. Based on their research, here are some of their findings when it comes to the top companies here in the Philippines: In OVERALL RANK, the country’s

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Are you a reader of Good House Keeping Magazine? Last July 2009, I got my very first feature under their Money Makeover section. I was happy with the outcome and I was contacted again to further contribute to their growing number of readers.   And so since I knew that my second feature will come out this September, I urgently bought the magazine again to see how it goes. I bought one copy at the nearby Mini Stop in our office. The September 2009 issue Good House Keeping Magazine cover was no

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Last July 31, I was given the chance to be a resource speaker for the very first financial planning seminar that I conducted. I was at first nervous as this was my very first speaking stint but that nervousness was slowly swallowed as I discussed my topics. It was a success! It was attended by around 50 attendees from our company. I was first introduced as a BS Mathematics graduate from Ateneo de Manila University, mentioned my two former employment background and my feature in Good House

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