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8 Investment Risks & Bulletproof Strategy 2008-03-10 06:45:22 Do you know than even the safest of investments are not 100% bulletproof? Should you let it sleep under your mattress, accumulate interest in a saving accounts, invest it in properties, bonds or stocks, all investments are subject to risks. What could those risks be? And how to protect yourself from those risks?
1- Market
As you [...] Read more:Bulletproof
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Opportunities for the long term… 2008-03-19 22:49:10 Everybody is following the financial crisis in the US. What will happen to Bear Sterns? How does the “out of control” Federal Reserve Fed actions will be perceived by the markets today? Tomorrow? Will the developing countries continue to surprise us by their inner strength?
Times like these call for cautious decisions. The markets are volatile, [...] Read more:Opportunities
Passive Funds - Index Funds 2008-03-21 23:12:04 Index funds are collective investment scheme - usually mutual funds - whose objective is to closely follow the performance of an index of the financial market. For example, the infamous Vanguard S&P 500 index fund track the S&P 500 largest public companies based in the US (I know, their naming is creative). The fund holds [...] Read more:Funds
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Prudent-Man Rule - There & Back again 2008-03-28 21:30:49 The recent market & economic turmoil is leading to many reflecting recent investments strategies & market approach. As is often the case, such reflection will lead to a good old fashion remembrance of good-old common sense. One of the most common sense advice one can follow is the “Prudent
Man Rule”.
Rendering a court decision in [...]
“Be greedy when others are fearful” 2008-04-05 00:46:01 Interesting read from the Economist - I know I am becoming a fanatic! - Hung, drawn and first-quartered. It may not be their most enlighten or thought challenging article; it simply is a good overview of the current market & the Reader’s comment will be very interesting to follow!
After a painful period, investors face a [...] Read more:greedy
How To Select Your Financial Adviser? 2008-04-18 11:04:36 Everyday I meet people who want get their money to work for them. Most of them realize they need help and they are looking for the right adviser to guide them. They are looking for someone who will listen, understand their needs and objectives, and help them achieve their dreams. Sometimes the dreams are reasonable; [...] Read more:Financial
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“The Whistle” - Benjamin Franklin 2008-04-23 06:34:50 No need to introduce BenjaminFranklin
here I guess. He simply was one of the greatest statesman ever. But he was more than a statesman, diplomat, scientist or US of A founding father. He was a great author and satirist. One of his most famous piece is about his childhood whistle and the tough lesson [...] Read more:Benjamin Franklin
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Camels to Answer Rising Energy Prices 2008-05-05 21:58:23 With oil prices hitting new high every day, many Americans are starting to re-consider their SUV, Hummers, and other oil-thirsty cars. Some Indians find another way to solve this problem. The Financial Times has a very interesting article on how the current rising food and energy prices give a second life to traditional transportation “vehicles”.
“It’s [...] Read more:Camels
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The 3 stages of Bull & Bear 2008-05-10 22:36:19 Busy weeks are following busy weeks lately. I just finished catching up with some of the reading I saved over the past few weeks & came across this “acorn” of wisdom on bull & bear markets. It is an extract from Howard Marks’ most recent memo to his Oaktree investors on March 18, 2008.
Fortunately, [...]
Subsidised Fuel or Education & Health? 2008-06-06 03:14:02 The news came in 2 days ago. The government abruptly raised the price of subsidised fuel by 40%. This measure was in the “pipeline” for quite some time and recently became necessary to offset the high oil price cost to the public purse.
This lead to horrible traffic jam that same evening as many Malaysians [...] Read more:Education
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A Good Laugh - Bank Slogan Revisited 2008-10-03 10:20:02 Been catching up on my reading this evening, and I Just couldn’t stop laughing out loud for the past 5 minutes after reading this article: Catchy slogan that catches banks out
Had to share this !! Read more:Revisited
Japanese Bank and the Crunch 2008-10-23 04:10:07 Following the problems in the sub-prime lending market in America and the run on Northern Rock in the UK, uncertainty has now hit Japan.
In the last 7 days Origami Bank has folded, Sumo Bank has gone belly up and Bonsai Bank announced plans to cut some of its branches.
Yesterday, it was announced that Karaoke Bank [...] Read more:Crunch
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Which Strategy for MM2H Investments 2008-10-20 23:00:18 I recently started participating in a forum dedicated to Malaysia My Second Home: www.my2home.info. I first started interacting with Scott when I was working for Allo’ Expat and he always came up with great informative posts. He opened his forum to share his MM2H experience. At the time, a competitor to AE’s MM2H section, now [...] Read more:Investments
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Time To Make Long-Term Bet On Equities? - Economist Weekly 2008-11-12 23:33:31 Clare’s college, one of Cambridge University’s oldest seats of learning, recently made a very interesting move. They borrowed £15m for 40 years to invest in stocks. They are planning to invest in equities, betting markets are the best investments in the long term.
Is it a good move?
It is a very common idea that equities [...] Read more:Economist
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