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The More We Spend The Higher Rate of Return On Investment Needed [ September 2nd, 2010 ] | 84 views | Leave a Comment

I believe that those who are ‘thrify‘ will grow wealthy, and those who are ‘spendthrifts‘ will become poor. During my school time, i already have a game of adhering to my budget in which saving 50 cents out of my pocket money. As i known, the discipline of being able to control our spending and save consistently would make us success in the later stage.

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For those who are from top management level who earn more than RM10k per month does not necessary that they can live wealthy. Let’s take an example, the managing director of a multinational corporation, who was earning RM120k per year. Given his hefty income, we expected him to have great substancial amount of money over the years, right? However, sometimes we may found that quite a great number of them whose total assets actually is less than RM500k while the net worth is less than RM200k. Plus, more than 70% of his net worth was from EPF savings.

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BNM Rounding Mechanism

As you known, the rounding mechanism had started since 1st of April 08. However, i still have some question that needs to bring out for discussion here.

BNM New Mechanism

The rounding mechanism is to rounding up or down to the nearest 5 cent. Recently, I have paid my insurance premium about MYR 2576.64 but after rounded up I should pay MYR 2576.65. But if total bill is like MYR xx.61 then only pay MYR xx.60. May I know is it good news for a payer or not??

Why Need To Implement Such Kind of Rounding Mechanism ?

Based on my understanding, the system was implemented because the government intended to stop the production of the 1 cent coin since large amount of 1 cent coin unused in our circulation and the cost of producing 1 cent cost is more than 1 cent.

Don’t Be So Calculative In Certain Situation

If the marketer is smart enough, then every item he will put 0.98 to 0.99 cent, we are going to suffer with that unlesss you buy 3x 0.99 item, let it become 2.97, then you will save from that calculation.

On the other hand, I may feel that this will benefit to all marketer because the more user spend the more user can save! Hence, if can, try don’t buy unnecessary thing just because of want to save 1 cent or 2 cent.

How to Pay Less When Go For Filling Your Fuel ?

You can fill your fuel with MYR 50.01 or MYR 50.02. If using credit card, you will be charged the actual amount.

May 31st, 2008 | Posted in » News & Announcement | 4 Comments | 906 views

Don’t Get Confused With Bank FD Calculation

Calculation

Here, I won’t share with you about shares and mutual fund because those are more for investing while FD is strictly for savings purposes. But, how do we count the total gain from fixed deposit for a year?

Lets say you put 10k FD for 1 year at 3.70%(p.a) which is regulated by central bank. Then at the end of the year you can get $10370.

** Take note that if you withdraw before the maturity date, you won’t get the full interest.

If monthly basis (1 month) with 3.0% interest rate, then you’ll get $300 divided by 12 months. If you add up the interest into your FD automatically, the next calculation will be based on your total FD. So, you can enjoy more as the powerful of compounding interest.

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May 27th, 2008 | Posted in » Bank & Investment | 13 Comments | 8,351 views

Online Selling Jewelry, Good Or Bad?

I am not pro on this kind of stuff because I have never buy it or wear it personally or even buy it as a gift to someone before. I hope to look around for opinions, but the important thing that I should consider is whether is it workable of making it into online business?

I’ve seen a couple of websites set up for this kind of business and some of them are quite successful even. I know if want to penetrate into this type of market; you have to be creative and do custom made and not do rip-offs though.

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May 25th, 2008 | Posted in » Other | Leave a Comment | 649 views

To Be Self Employed or Being Employee?

Boss & EmployeeI’ve a permanent position from company to be a Software Engineer. Currently, i’m not keen on this permanent position as i would have to learn a lot of things which naturally takes up a lot of my time as i’m new in the field but this does good for me to expose in a lot of process in global scale. This will no doubt benefit my career in a longer run.

Most important thing is make sure that:

1. Do what you enjoy.

2. If a job is just a job, it’s not worth.

3. If a job is an opportunity for you to learn relevant skills, make useful network and gain good work experience, it’s worth.

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May 24th, 2008 | Posted in » My Career Opportunity | 5 Comments | 1,964 views

Super Heavyweight Boxing Match

Actually I’m just casually follow boxing and mostly like to watch boxing match when there’s a fight on an amature show. It will attract me to watch especially if there’s a fight between De La Hoya and Mayweather.

For me, De La Hoya is probably more stronger than the latter based on the history records. Equally speaking, if it goes for distance i’m thinking about Mayweather, if it’s a knockout type situation i’m going for De La Hoya. I will more prefer De La Hoya as winner of every match against Mayweather. In fact, Mayweather is an arrogant and like to underestimate someone.

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May 21st, 2008 | Posted in » Other | 3 Comments | 1,117 views

Withdraw EPF For Investment

Under new “Beyond Savings” scheme, you can now make withdrawals from EPF Account 1 for investment. You are allowed to invest 20% of the amount in excess of the required basic savings in Account 1 and minimum investment for unit trust is RM1,000. For example, the basic savings amount for a contributor who aged 25 (like me) is RM9,000. So, in order to withdraw for UT investment, I must have RM14,000. Do you know why?

Calculation:

Thus, different age may have different basic savings amount.
Calculation

How much would one need for retirement?

Experts say this depends on the individual and his lifestyle. And how much he is willing to reduce consumption such as eat out less often, buy fewer things, live in a smaller house, drive less, and travel less. In fact, financing database Motley Fool have figures which show that even as little as 2% cut on monthly expenses can boost retirement funds by as much as 500%.

More younger people are becoming bankrupt as they are spending “tomorrow’s money”. Which basically means these people are not saving or building their retirement nest.

Stumble it!

May 17th, 2008 | Posted in » Retirement Planning | 3 Comments | 2,510 views

Business Loan

Before running any business, you need to have good financial support so that you can get access to sufficient funds, which used to finance any business need. Small Business Loans can be secured and unsecured types depending on borrower’s requirements and ability.

In today’s economy, most of the lenders are more likely to prepare an unsecured start up business loan. This can allow entrepreneurs to get the loan without having property and assets as collateral.

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May 17th, 2008 | Posted in » Other | Leave a Comment | 752 views