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How a Higher Retirement Age could Impact Your Personal Finances?
Looking forward to retirement or worried about your finances? Let's see how adjusting the retirement age impacts your personal finances. Thinking about your retirement might be keeping you up at night. You worry about whether [...]
2025 March Market Outlook
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How Does EPF’s 6.3% Compare Against Other Investments
Curious about how to make sense of EPF's 6.3% dividend yield? How did returns of other common investment vehicles stack up against EPF's in 2024? Money is in! [...]
2025 February Market Outlook
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A Deep-Dive into Rising Health Insurance Premiums (Part 3) – The Malaysians Who Need Healthcare
Health insurance premiums are to increase this year! What’s going on and why? This is Part 3 of 3 in our series about Rising Health Insurance Premiums. In [...]
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Moomoo MY 90-day 2% p.a. Cash Return Promotion
Another great promo to help kick start your US stock market investment journey with fractional shares trading with Moomoo MY. Announcing a new cash reward campaign for Moomoo MY users! From today to 30th June [...]
Malaysian Fintech Startup, Versa, Reports Over RM 100 Million in Transactions In Less Than A Year
Officially launched in early 2021, Malaysian fintech startup Versa is the first recognised market operator (e-Service platform) to obtain approval and license from the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC). [...]
4 Jenis Cukai Baru Yang Mungkin Diperkenalkan di Malaysia
Ada peluang untuk cukai baru diperkenalkan di Malaysia apabila ekonomi pulih nanti. Ketahui apa jenis cukai yang mungkin akan diperkenalkan di negara Malaysia. (Original article in English) Dengan [...]
Invest in Money Market With Versa App
Versa, in collaboration with Affin Hwang Asset Management, recently launched their latest digital money management platform. They are the first fintech to focus solely on money market funds [...]
Apa Anda Perlu Tahu Tentang Program Bantuan PEMERKASA
Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin telah mengumumkan pakej bantuan PEMERKASA berjumlah RM20 billion pada 17 Mac 2021 pada pukul 5.30 pm. (Original article in English) Pada [...]
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SST: Simplified Malaysian Sales Tax Guide
The new Sales and Services Tax (SST) starts this September 1st. For Sales tax, what items are fully exempted and what are going to cost you more? Is it only luxury items that are being [...]
Life and Medical Insurance Tax Relief
Your easy guide to tax relief calculation for life and medical insurance. How much tax relief exemption are you entitled to? There are six (6) broad categories for life and medical insurance. Depending on the [...]
How to Claim Unclaimed Moneys
Malaysians have a whopping RM10.8b is in unclaimed moneys at the end of 2019 and is currently sitting in trust in the AG (Accountant-General's) Department. Do you have unclaimed moneys? Claim it back! [...]
I am Financially Free
This is a post that I had been thinking of writing for a while now. I will try to write as clearly as possible but at a sufficient level of disclosure so as not to [...]
How does P2P Property Crowdfunding Work?
How does peer-to-peer property crowdfunding like FundMyHome work? Is it beneficial for a buyer? Are there risks? Property Crowdfunding Malaysia's Budget 2019 announced the launch of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) property crowdfunding. Home buyers need [...]
Personal Finances
Preparing Financially for Your Children’s Education – Part 4: Tertiary
Are you preparing for your child's university education? This series explores the fees incurred for your children’s schooling. Welcome to Part 4 – about tertiary education costs in Malaysia. This is the last part of [...]
7 Common Reasons People Fall for Scams
What causes the public to fall prey to scammers? Learn more of few common ones causing this serious disadvantage. More often than not, we have read articles after articles in the media about people young [...]
Preparing Financially for Your Children’s Education – Part 3: Secondary
Preparing for your teenager's schooling? This series explores the fees incurred for your children’s schooling. Welcome to Part 3 – about secondary education costs in Malaysia. Phew! If you are still here, kudos to you. [...]
Risk Management & Estate Planning
Pet Insurance: Paw-tecting My Puppy and My Money
Why Roshan Kanesan bought pet insurance for his puppy. On August 27th 2022 at the Paw Wow Woof Gathering at Ardence Labs, I finally pulled the trigger and bought Berkshire medical insurance. Berkshire is my [...]
A Guide to Choosing the Right Financial Advisor
A financial advisor is someone that is well versed in all aspects of financial advice, and can help you improve your financial health or solve your financial woes. The role of a financial advisor in [...]
5 Financial Planning Consideration for Sexual Diversity Groups
Financial planning for the LGBT community certainly is essential with some unique considerations. Let's look at these 5 financial planning considerations. The term sexual diversity refers to all the diversities of sex characteristics, sexual orientations, [...]
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2024 December Market Outlook & Review
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