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Recently AmBank Group launched a corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaign called What Women Want. This campaign is touted as the first of its kind in the industry to recruit women as financial services agent for its insurance arm, AmAssurance.
This campaign aims to recruit some 1,500 women as its agents. This campaign will commence on July 4 and will run nationwide until end of November. For ladies who are interested, you can register for a place to take part at AmAssurance’s website.
This AmBank event was also graced by Chew Mei Fun (read her speech here).
What a creative way to recruit agents. And to position it as a corporate social responsibility event, that’s clever! Any ladies interested to go for this?
by Penny on June 23, 2009
I have always wondered how many of us actually engage the service of a financial planner to help us achieve our financial goals. Do you have one? I’ve never had one although there was an insurance agent who did offer to extend his services as a financial planner instead of just being an insurance agent. But I declined.
The reason I declined the help of a financial planner’s service at that point in time was because I really had no idea what kind of financial objectives or results I wanted. Specific results, I mean. I only know that I want to retire comfortably, have enough money to send my kiddo off to some good tertiary education, etc. But nothing in specific monetary terms. So I thought it’d be a waste of time to get a financial planner to look into my very vague plans.
Also, I know exactly what I was going to be told upon a financial health check, that I need a lot more savings as buffer and that I am not insuring enough. But then again, many may tell me that since I do not know what I want and have so many fundamentals lacking, this is where the financial planner will come in useful.
Are financial planners really a big help? What do you think? If you have one, how has your financial planner help you so far in maintaining and growing your wealth?
Update: I just realised that The Novice wrote a post about how to choose the right financial adviser today. Good read!
by Penny on June 22, 2009
For a long while I’ve heard of the famous Thesis theme developed by Chris Pearson. Then for equally long I was considering getting it after reading the many raving reviews about what it can do and why Thesis is like no other Wordpress themes out there, all free and premium Wordpress themes combined.
A little bit of background information about the Thesis theme…it is THE MOST customisable Wordpress theme you can ever find! It doesn’t require any in depth knowledge of HTML for you to tweak and customise the theme to suit your style. It can really be anything and everything you want. You can choose it to be as simple or beautifully decorated with graphics and colours as you wish. And did I mention you do this with just clicking on buttons?! Well for the more advanced tweaks, you will need to learn how to use some hooks to instruct your site to behave in certain manners, but once you get the hang of it, it’s pretty limitless what you can do.
So in March this year I finally hopped onto the bandwagon and went ahead to buy my first ever premium theme. Since I own a few blogs, there was no point in getting a single license so I bought a developer’s license which gives me limitless use of the theme on as many domains as I want.
Since then I’ve slowly converted some of my blogs onto the Thesis Wordpress theme platform and have no regrets. I do have more sites to convert but am taking my time as I would like to concentrate on the more critical ones first.
So what made me part with some $160+ for a Thesis Wordpress theme? Well, you can read the many reviews and even read about it on DIYThemes site. I won’t repeat after everyone the benefits of Thesis. But I will share with you why I am totally happy with it.
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by Penny on June 17, 2009
In the recent weeks the search engine business have seen new competitors rising up to the mark with the launch of Bing by Microsoft and Hunch by Flickr. Both the new search engines are trying to differentiate by saying that they aren’t really search engines, but rather more of a decision maker.
Bing claims it is positioned to provide answers while Hunch helps you make smarter decisions. Well, you know, however they position themselves, I still view them as search engines anyway! Of course I give them credit for making the effort to be different and trying to create and dominate a new space within the business of online search.
So, with these new lifestyle search engines in the market, have you tried using them yet? By now I think most people have heard and tried Bing. I even saw some traffic coming to my blogs from Bing searches. I suppose the one pleasing thing with Bing is the aesthetic value. When people talk about Bing, the first thing they say is “Look how nice it is!” and I agree. It is aesthetically pleasing alright.
One of Bing.com’s serene looking landing page
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