Recently, I helped my wife to open a StashAway account. The primary purpose of opening this account is to compare the returns of StashAway with MYTHEO. StashAway account opening process The account opening process is quite simple. We need to provide our personal details and also choose an investing plan. The investing plan is categorized …
The author of this book is Andrew Tobias. He is an American writer with 12 published books in different disciplines. The contents of The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need lean towards personal finance, rather than investment. Furthermore, most lessons can only be applied in the United States. Layout of The Only Investment Guide You’ll …
Recently, Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB) has announced the availability of online withdrawal from myASNB. This function is available on both the website and mobile app. The withdrawal can only be done during the operating hours. Funds allowed for online withdrawal All fixed price funds and variable price funds are included for online withdrawal except …
Rakuten Trade (RT) interest rate is reduced again on 5 May 2020. This is the third time of reduction in this year alone. It means that the interest on our cash account balance is going to reduce once more. Reason of reduction Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has announced the reduction of the overnight policy rate …
Burton G. Malkiel and Charles D. Ellis wrote The Elements of Investing together. Both of them are eminent figures in the investing world and have extensive experience in the field. This book aims to help the readers to make better investment decisions so that their retirement life is secure. Layout of The Elements of Investing …
CapitalBay (Link) is a new peer-to-peer (P2P) financing platform in Malaysia. I have managed to enrol into its Early Access Programme. I am going to give an overview of this new platform here. Background of CapitalBay This company was launched in 2016 and is the first Multi-Bank Supply Chain Finance (SCF) platform in Malaysia licensed …
(This article is prepared by Rakuten Trade. I just made some layout adjustment.) 1. What are the differences between Rakuten Trade and other brokers? Rakuten Trade is Malaysia’s first and only full-fledged online equity broker. This means that their clients can sign up, trade, settle their transactions, read reports and get trading ideas plus earn …
Amanah Saham Malaysia (ASM) has paid its dividend on 1 April 2020. The dividend declared is 4.25 cents, equal to a rate of 4.25%. It is a large decrease from last year. Trend For the previous dividends, you can refer to this article. The dividend has decreased by 22.73% compared to last year. This dividend …
There are a host of investment podcasts out there. However, I do not have the patience to listen for more than 45 minutes. Thus, I only listen to podcasts with episodes that are generally not more than 30 minutes long. Due to this constraint and my preference for Malaysian podcasts, there are only three podcasts …
Starting on 15 March 2020, we can make pre-retirement withdrawal from private retirement scheme (PRS) for certain purposes without the 8% tax penalty. The allowed purposes are housing and healthcare. We could withdraw from Sub Account B which holds 30% of our savings. Healthcare For healthcare purpose, we can withdraw for ourselves or immediate family …
