A reader recently asked me what are the best stocks in the Philippines which he can buy for long term investment, specifically those which he can use for cost averaging. If you’re not familiar with stock market investing, then I suggest you read this blog’s primer first: How To Invest In The Stock Market Also, [...]

A friend of mine is thinking of investing in mutual funds and interestingly, he found my list of Philippine mutual fund companies which I wrote a couple of years back. He emailed me recently to ask if I could feature the different mutual funds that Sun Life Financial Philippines offers as he is leaning towards [...]

I’ve been assessing my investments recently and saw that some low-risk investments which I placed several years ago have already grown significantly over the past few years. Consequently, I thought that perhaps, it’s time to rebalance my portfolio and diversify more. Incidentally, I’ve been studying the performance of BDO’s Unit Investment Trust Funds for several [...]

“I have extra money, where should I invest it?” asked a friend of mine. “Wherever you want, as long as you know how that investment works,” I answered. “But I don’t know anything about investing, that’s why I’m asking you,” he replied back. “Then I guess you should invest in yourself. Buy books, attend seminars, [...]

Everyone wants to invest. But not everyone is ready to lose money. While investing is a great way to secure a future, one must keep in mind that providing for the present is actually more important. Because how can you reach your financial goals, if you’re not moving towards the right direction today, right? And [...]

I’ve read about Warren Buffett many times in my life – in books, magazines and other personal finance and investing blogs. Recently, I received an email which tells some pretty interesting and notable aspects of his life. It was something I already read a few years back but its lessons never grew old on me. [...]

I always say that the very first thing you should do if you want to achieve financial freedom is to learn how to save money. Be frugal, pay yourself first, avoid unnecessary expenses – it’s just some of the things you can do to start building your wealth. And after a few months, or even [...]

Welcome to the third and final part of this series. Hopefully by now, you already know how to do cost averaging and likewise understand how cost averaging works from a mathematical point of view. As promised, in this last part – we shall examine actual Philippine stocks and see how your investment would have performed [...]

In the previous post, I showed you How To Do Cost Averaging – which is simply investing equal monetary amounts regularly on a particular stock over a period of time. For Part 2, I shall try to explain how cost averaging actually works. First, you should know that cost averaging is not limited to the [...]

There are two basic ways to invest in the stock market. The first one is active trading which involves “timing the market” and doing fundamental and technical analysis. The second one is passive investing or cost averaging which involves doing steady investments through time. If you want to invest in the stock market but you [...]

Most of the things I know about stock market investing, I learned by reading various resources online. The internet has a lot of them, but I know, from experience, they can be quite hard to understand specially if you’re a beginner. That’s why I’m now writing for you this straightforward, no nonsense explanation of how [...]

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended the free stock market seminar last week. I hope all of you learned something new and valuable about the Philippine stock market. And to follow through with our learning, I’ve decided that I will now do a series of posts about investing, particularly [...]