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Money management

How to save on paying interests on your home loan and shorten tenure

January 14, 2009

If you have a home loan with a bank or any financial institution, chances are you are paying your home loan on a monthly installment, and most likely for a tenure of 20 years or more. There are many ways to save on the interest charged on a home loan as well as to shorten [...]

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Managing your finances as a couple

January 13, 2009

Married couples often have arguments when the subject of money is brought up. Especially now, when we are at the beginning of a global financial crisis, couples may find themselves at each other’s throats more often. Each of us have different ways of managing (or mismanaging!) our finances, and it’s inevitable that couples have lots [...]

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Statistics on Malaysians’ habit to spend versus save

January 1, 2009

I was reading January 2009’s issue of Personal Money magazine and came across some statistics on the preference to spend today versus saving for tomorrow. This statistics came about from Aviva’s 2008 Consumer Attitudes to Savings study. Here are some of the results shown for a few countries, Malaysia included.
Before you look at the results, [...]

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What is your personal financial strategy for 2009 and beyond?

December 22, 2008

As the year comes to a close very soon, have you thought of what the financial crisis will bring about next year? Everyone keeps saying it’s not going to look bright next year and that we have not seen the worst that is yet to come. I’m sure you’ve also heard that we will start [...]

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