In one of my previous posts, I mentioned about what to look for when buying mutual funds. Once you bought and invested your hard-earned money into mutual funds, then what’s the next step? In my pursuit for further financial education, here are the do’s and don’ts of mutual fund investing: WHAT TO DO WHEN INVESTING IN MUTUAL FUNDS: - Pick funds that have a proven track record and a manager who has been around for more than five years. - Pick funds that meet your investment

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There are a lot of technical advices out there telling different investment strategies to grow your money. If you are a first-time investor, then you have to start from scratch. You need to understand basic and simple concepts in investing. The first step in investing is to understand how the different types of investments relate to each other. Then you can do an asset allocation in each of these types to determine which amounts of your total portfolio to invest in each of these

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If you want to become educated on business matters, then one of the things that you should know is the financial statement of companies. You need to know how to read numbers because numbers don’t lie. Financial statements are the health check up of businesses. Just like humans, businesses can be subject of certain “diseases” that you should know before it’s too late. Here are some of the financial ratios that you should know to examine the health of a business. This

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Inflation is one of the reasons why do you need to invest your money. In economics, we have known inflation as the general increase in prices of commodities. The higher the inflation, the lesser the value of our money. Inflation degrades the value of our money. Your money last year cannot buy the same amount of goods now. WHAT CAUSES INFLATION TO INCREASE? Increase in oil prices. Oil is a very important commodity in the world because it is one of the raw materials of every company used to

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Without doubt, each of us don’t want to invest because we are afraid of losing our hard earned money. The fear of losing money is the main reason a huge percentage of the public struggles financially. But fear isn’t the real problem. It’s how people handle fear that matters. Kiyosaki tells people that the primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle the fear of losing money. Some people, when hit with a financial loss, give up. Others transform the

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In continuation of the lessons I’ve learned from Rich Dad Poor Dad author, Robert Kiyosaki, I will discuss today what he called “Types of Investors.” According to him, there are two main types of investors: Average Investors and Professional Investors. Average investors buy packaged securities such as mutual funds, treasury bills, or real-estate-investment trusts. Professional investors are more aggressive—they create investment opportunities or get in on the ground floor

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Each of us wants to become successful investors. We need to invest simply because we want our money to work for us aside from the fact that inflation eats our purchasing power. One of the world’s greatest investor is the second richest person on Earth, the Oracle of Omaha - Warren Buffett.  He became so successful that he now owns several parts of other businesses. What made him so successful as an investor? I recently played a webinar conducted by the famous Robert Kiyosaki and he

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Opportunity cost analysis is one of the main foundations used in making financial decisions. In strict accounting terms, opportunity cost is not really a cost or an expense. However, it maybe relevant in making decisions with financial repercussions. Wikipedia says that opportunity cost has been described as expressing the basic relationship between scarcity and choice. When you are torn between making decisions with mutually exclusive results, then one benefit should be sacrificed and

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As an investor, you keep on asking, what’s the best investment? What could be that investment that could give me the best returns for my money? Is it real estate? Or stocks? How about mutual funds? For me the best investment is an investment to yourself. Why? It’s because without you working, you won’t generate income. Yourself is the most important of all investments and so you must invest in yourself in order to be the best wherever you are. So how can you invest in yourself? Invest

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First of all thank you dear readers. I am happy if I see my visitors increasing each time. It’s worth all the effort in writing articles on a specific niche. I happen to stumble on a blog that talks about which one is better - to invest in stocks or invest in a business? Investing in stocks and starting a business are both risky. You both have to educate and equip yourself with the right skills. You also have to watch both of them. Stock value goes up and down depending on the market

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Live life to the fullest. Grab life by the horns. Just make sure your life is insured. Life insurance is the only vehicle that delivers a set amount of money at a specific point in the future. While you won’t be around to collect the benefits of your life insurance, your dependents would definitely benefit from it. The money can help pay off mortgage, put your children through college, cover estate taxes, or just help your family make ends meet. If you’re pondering whether to buy an

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Well, aside from the obvious reason that you need it, whether for capital or other expenses; borrowing money can help you to manage your finances if you know how to leverage debt. That is to know the difference between good debt vs. bad debt. In this article, I will expound more on the idea of debt leveraging by using other people’s money instead of yours. Good debt makes the rich gets richer. There are very few entrepreneurs who did not borrow money to grow their business. If you can

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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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I’ve been talking a lot about investments here for quite some time. But did you ask yourself, ‘why do you need to invest?’ What’s the reason behind investing? Is it just for the sake of earning more? Yes, possibly that’s one of your reasons. You’ve worked hard for that money. Now, it’s time for that money to work hard for you. One of the main reasons why do you need to invest is to fight an enemy and that enemy I’m referring to is your money’s primary enemy - inflation.

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