Welcome to another edition of Reader Mail, the special article series on this blog where I answer questions from readers. For today, I’ll be tackling several questions about investments, most of which have been sent to me multiple times by different people over the past few weeks. Honestly, I’ve been flooded by such inquiries lately, [...]

Last week, I conducted a personal finance webinar with mostly OFW’s as my audience. The whole talk, including the question and answer portion, lasted for about an hour and a half. If you wish to watch the recording, you can view it HERE, you just have to register your name and email address. On a [...]

Forex or currency trading is not very popular in the country. In fact, there are only a handful of companies that offer forex seminars to Filipinos. Sadly, some of them try to mislead people that forex trading is easy, and anyone who knows how to use a computer can make money from it. I’ve attended [...]

I usually receive around three text messages every week from numbers I don’t know – all offering personal loans from different commercial banks. Sometimes, their offers are very tempting… terms such as “no collateral”, “instant approval” and many others would really make you consider applying. I myself have wondered at times how I could leverage [...]

Through the years, I’ve received a lot of emails from readers asking me various questions and advise on business, investments and finance. Once in while, however, I get curious personal questions which I try to answer the best I could without giving “too much information” about my life, for obvious reasons. Below now, are some [...]

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 [...]

Do you want to quit your job and start your own business? DON’T – because it should work the other way around. You should first try start your own business, then later on – quit your job. These and more are some of the advise I gave in today’s edition of Reader Mail. But before [...]

My life has so far been a series of ups and downs with twists and turns. It’s been a journey of multiple successes and big failures, of dead-end roads and open fields. Through all these years, what has always kept me going is the proper mindset, discipline, belief and determination that in the end, I [...]

Welcome to the fifteenth edition of Reader Mail. This is where I post the questions I receive from my readers and share with you the answers and advise I gave to them. For today, we’ll discuss the topics of finding work, investing and family finances. Note that the names of the senders have been made [...]

Recently, I received an email from a reader who is really set on getting out of her credit card debts. I replied back with quite a lengthy response and thought I would share with you my advise to her. I hope that through this, I would be able to help others who are likewise having [...]