If you are using Rakuten Trade, I think you must have noticed the notifications in your inbox. What are these notifications? Are they useful? Notifications There are mainly three types of notification: Daily Market Report, Investment Idea and Technical View. 1. Daily Market Report This report is sent on every morning of trading day. It …
HOPE (Link) is a programme from EcoWorld to help purchasers to buy a house, either as a first house or an upgrade. There are two schemes in this programme, namely STAY2OWN (S2O) and HELP2OWN (H2O). STAY2OWN This scheme is a partnership with Maybank HouzKEY. Most aspects of this scheme are the same as HouzKEY. However, …
In July 2019, I encountered my first defaulted note on Funding Societies Malaysia after two years with the platform. Today, I am glad to say that I have recouped my principal and thus, suffer no loss from this delinquent note. What happened? Funding Societies Malaysia managed to get the note issuer to settle the outstanding …
Amanah Saham Malaysia 2 Wawasan (ASM 2 Wawasan) is one of the fixed-priced funds offered by Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB). Its latest dividend was paid on 1 September 2019. The amount is RM 0.05/unit which translates to a yield of 5%. Like ASM, the dividend of ASM 2 Wawasan also experienced a significant drop …
(Updated: 9 September 2019) There are a few share reviews based on this strategy, so I feel I should elaborate more on the Down but Rebounding strategy. Thus, today I am going to present this strategy in greater detail. Stock screener I use Rakuten Trade stock screener for the Down but Rebounding strategy to get …
[Notice: Please be advised that there are some US brokers who offer zero-commission trading now.] (Updated: 4 September 2019) I have received an email from this platform which has clarified some points in this article. Thus, I am going to share the information with this update. ToledoTrade (Link) is an online broker that I came …
John C. Bogle wrote this book back in 2017. He was the founder of Vanguard Mutual Fund Group, one of the world’s largest investment companies. He held the honour of creating the world’s first index fund, First Index Investment Trust which later becomes Vanguard 500 Index Fund. As you can guess it, he was a …
Recently, Funding Societies Malaysia has recategorized the notes on its platform. Previously, there were only Invoice Financing and Business Term Financing. Now, there are three types of notes (five types to be exact). Let’s go through them one by one. Business Term Financing This type of financing is used to fund the note issuers’ day …
I have been investing in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending on Funding Societies Malaysia and Fundaztic for two years. I feel it is time for me to make a choice between these two platforms. Funding Societies Malaysia vs Fundaztic Below are some basic statistics about these two platforms. Funding Societies Malaysia offers three types of investment products. …
The thing that I dread finally happened. I have one defaulted note on Funding Societies Malaysia after two years on this platform. Amount involved As it is a partially paid note, I do not suffer a very big loss. In fact, I consider it to be insignificant. Overall, I will incur a 10% loss of …
