Mutual funds are definitely becoming more and more popular nowadays since more and more people are looking for ways to grow their money aside from the usual saving and time deposit accounts offered by banks. Mutual funds open the door to a simple, uncomplicated path to increased wealth. They’re also one of the best ways to diversify your investments and spread your risk. As I mentioned in one of my articles before, mutual funds are companies that gathers a large pool of money and invest

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I’m sorry for not having enough time to update this blog. I have been very busy in other matters during the past few weeks. Anyway, I would like to tackle in this article another lesson that I’ve learned from the famous Robert Kiyosaki that covers the investment topic of risk vs. risky. Risk and Risky are two different terms. Except for the fact that one is a noun and the other is an adjective, risk and risky are two different terms when it comes to investing. Risk is primarily

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Most of us grew up thinking that mistakes are bad and should be avoided at all cost. We tend to correlate mistakes with low intelligence: The more mistakes you make, the dumber you are. However, the truth is, mistakes are opportunities to learn something new. “There’s a bit of magic hidden in every mistake,” Kiyosaki said. “That magic is called learning.” Instead of telling yourself on how to avoid mistakes, learn from your mistakes to turn into an opportunity to gain

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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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