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Personal finances

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.
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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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Is it wise to quit your job in the midst of a global financial crisis?

December 16, 2008

This thought has been lingering on my mind for about 2 weeks now. I have never considered this matter so seriously in my entire working life, but now I am. And I am wondering if it is smart at all to even think about it, seeing how the economy will not be going up anytime [...]

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Spend wisely to get your tax savings

December 3, 2008

It’s December already which means this is the last month that you have to do whatever tax savings you can do for the next tax assessment happening in the first quarter of next year. There are several ways for you to save on paying income tax by taking advantage of some tax exempted expenditures, and [...]

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