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Educate yourself about finance

Here I pull out the list of the best financial websites and blogs around the internet for Malaysian people.

The list


Bonus point.

  • The Edge newspaper
  • Personal Money magazine, value at RM 9

If you have something in your mind and you want to add on the list, please do not hesitate to put comments below. Let’s take control of our financial life.

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To Cut More Jobs

Losing job probably is the worst thing that could ever happen in our little life and it may takes you a long time to get new one during economy slopes. For the ones who have emergency money for the times like this, they could carry on until they get a new job.

It’s very miserable and sad when many companies kicked out more and more employees to survive due to its huge losses. I found out the list of the companies (as at 23 March 2008) that have cut job and threw people in misery:

+Time Warner to cut more jobs.
+Canada’s Nortel to cut more jobs.
+Teather & Greenwood poised to cut more jobs.
+Time Magazine to cut more jobs.
+Citigroup to cut more jobs.
+Motorola expected to cut more jobs.
+GM Europe to cut more jobs.

Let’s hope for their success in seeking new prosperity for brighter futures. More and more companies will follow the footstep, be prepared financially and emotionally.

Ringgit Paths to Heaven : 6th March 2008

This post offers great and interesting links that converse about money, finance, and economy.

+fivecentnickel.com told me that the key for to be successful is to
plan in advance

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My top three investment mistakes; and this post taught me something.
+Good opinions for the ones who work as a freelancer or self employed. So you don’t have a headache
managing your money effectively

+Proton still
gambling on their ridiculous GEN 2 car, can they succeed this time?

+Air Asia’s profit flies more higher, their numbers of passengers overtook MAS passengers, and they do not fear of uprising fuel price.

+Subprime mortgage crisis cartoon has made me laughing out loud.

+The number of U.S. workers applying for unemployment benefits rose a much bigger than expected 19,000 last week.

+Confidence plunges, inflation rate soars….and our nightmares has come true.


Ringgit Paths To Heaven : 21 Feb 2008

This post offers great and interesting links that converse about money, finance, and economy.

Recently Bank Negara introduced duit saku for teenagers and school children in effort to grow awareness of financial planning at early stage.

..Save money later by spending 15 minutes now to review your bank’s fees...

My sister is really suck at managing money, she wants to learn on how to invest yet she has lack of discipline in handling her money

Packing poorly won’t only cause you headaches and frustration once you’ve reached your destination with two dozen pairs of socks and no underwear.

Multi-level-marketing business vs. pyramid scheme and other six pairs of money terms that seem interchangeable at first glance, but are actually slightly different.

Bring more cattle to this kingdom; the people are really hungry right now and they only produced 20% last year.

Please choose your lifestyle carefully, it might eats you up alive.

Save the penny, save the world.

What does it mean to be wealthy, this guy has thought differently from others.

Revised Budget, see how this woman using it wisely

Malaysia’s 10 Richest. People

Here is the list of top 10 richest people in Malaysia for 2008.


1. Robert Kuok | RM58.11 billion
83. Married. 8 children.

2. Ananda Krishnan | RM25.7 billion 68. Divorced. 3 children.

3. Lee Shin Cheng | RM14.94 billion 67. Married. 6 children.

4. Quek Leng Chan | RM11.09 billion 65. Married. 3 children.

5. Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary | RM8.55 billion 54. Married. 5 children.

6. Teh Hong Piow| RM8.06 billion

7. Lim Kok Thay | RM3.17 billion

8. Tiong Hiew King | RM3.87 billion

9. Vincent Tan | RM3.41 billion

10. Azman Hashim | RM2.87 billion

Others interesting article about rich men :
The World’s Top Billionaires for 2007
2007 Top 40 richest people in India
The Richest Americans

6 reasons why I invest in unit trust @ mutual fund

As a beginner, I was told by my friend (he is a certified financial planner) that unit trust is a good key to ignite the investment engine. I am young and have a small capital, only can dig out a little money from my salary.

The fund that I invest is Public China Ittikal Fund (Shariah Fund). The main objective of this fund I guess is to achieve profit by investing in greater China region. The 1.5 billion approved funds investment is in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other major market around China. PCIF is an aggressive type of fund. What I understand about aggressive fund is it involves great risk that you can get losses very easy, but it will bring significant profit if the price goes up.

Why I choose PCIF?

PCIF is managed by one of the best fund manager in Malaysia. This is main reason why I invest in Public Mutual. Brilliant and good making decision of fund manager builds a confidence in me. I don’t have to worry about my investment because fund manager is doing the best effort to put the pooling fund

China’s rise to superpower. China economy is growing rapidly and experiencing vast changes in its economy. With Olympic 2008 event will occur in Beijing, We’ll be expecting travellers and tourists visit in and a lot of money pour in.

Affordability at it’s best. I can buy a high quality unit trust at cheap and affordable price. PCIF only require RM 1000 for minimum initial investment and minimum RM100 for additional investment. So there’s no rock and stone for me to invest, just an easy straight path to it.

PCIF is easy to take out money. Liquidity is quite high because I can withdraw my money anytime I want. Just fill out the form or phone my agent to sell off my shares. This fund can act as an emergency fund so when it comes to any uncertainties that cost me money, I know where to find it.

PCIF offers diversification. This is what I love about unit trust. It gives you lower risk by widening their investment from shares to bond. While it gives you low risk, PCIF offers me well-balanced portfolio that is high quality and performance, the risk is small and the return is highly potential.

Public Mutual is the number one unit trust company in Malaysia. Until now, there’s no other financial institution can competes with Public Mutual performance and credibility. Public Mutual managing about RM 20.6 billion worth of funds.

Read this : 2008 my early investment in Public Mutual Fund How can I get 80k by just saving RM100 every month.

Other people wrote about unit trust and PCIF


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