Another Missed Opportunity
First Metro (my online stock trading broker) has announced that Ayala Corp. Preferred Class “A” Shares are being offered at P500.00 per share at a fixed dividend rate of 8.88% per annum. I am not familiar how this works. All I know is that an annual dividend rate of 8.88% is quite high (especially when [...]
Savings Plan For 2009
Looking back on my goals posted on the first entry of this blog, it seems I failed miserably on item #1. This was mostly because of items #4 (I bought a MacBook) and #5, in which I invested all my potential savings into the stock market. A portion of my online income also went down [...]
Financial Checkup - Midyear Checkpoint
Making a monthly check didn?t quite work for me. But I want to stick to my goals. So I’m going to report on my financial checkup. I’m also posting here some of the highlights of my expense report. This is because after “semi-annualizing” my expenses (computing all my expenses from January 1 to June 30, [...]
