In this article, I will list down some common questions on Rakuten Trade (RT). These are the questions that were asked and answered before in the blog. To make things easy, I am compiling them here. 1. Safety: Is RT safe? What will happen to my shares if it winds down? First, our cash is …
I believe every Malaysian should have heard about Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF). It is established to help Malaysian workforce to save for their retirement. In short, it is a retirement fund created by the government for the citizens. How could a retirement fund become an investment? Dividend history Recently, EPF declares its dividend for 2019 …
The author of this book is Robert G. Hagstrom. He is a fan of Warren Buffett and has been studying the great investor for some time. This book is written with the aim to provide lessons that help to improve the readers’ investment results. The target audience is US readers, thus there are some issues …
The bear has come in the worldwide stock markets. Our Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) has dipped below 1,400 and might even break the 1,300 level. Luckily, the index increased to 1,344.75 before market closed. Nonetheless, it is still a large decline in one day. Truth to be told, I did not expect the index …
Since I start to use ToledoTrade, I have to fund the brokerage account with USD. Thus, I was looking for the cheapest way to transfer USD from Malaysia to US. In the process, I have engaged three service providers, namely Alliance Bank, InstaReM and Maybank. However, InstaReM is unable to transfer fund into virtual bank …
When I was researching the exchange traded funds (ETFs) in the US market, I have used some websites to help me. In this article, I will share these resources. I will list down these websites in alphabetical order. ETF.com I use this website (Link) to get a list of all ETFs for a particular country …
Not too long ago, I just shared that Rakuten Trade (RT) reduces its interest rate for the cash deposit on its platform. Starting 4 March 2020, it revises interest rate again. Reason of reduction Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has announced the reduction of the overnight policy rate (OPR) from 2.75% to 2.50% on 3 March …
Rakuten Trade has simplified its account opening process and is giving some benefits for account opening currently. So, what are different now? Process simplification Previously, to open an account, we have to provide a bank statement. However, this document is not needed anymore, unless you are using a joint account. So, you just have to …
[There is an update to this article. Please click here to read it.] Recently, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has cut its overnight policy rate (OPR) by 0.25% to 2.75%. How does this affect Rakuten Trade‘s interest rate on our cash deposits? Previous Rakuten Trade’s interest rate I guess most Rakuten Trade users notice the Interest …
This article is an update to my previous article on two peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms. It is 2020 now and I am going to compare my investment performance on Fundaztic and Funding Societies Malaysia . As I do not have an accurate way of counting the return, I am going to use the data from …
