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ABCs of Personal Finance

Personal finance 101. Salary from KL. Property from Selangor.

As per Department of Statistics, Malaysia, the median salary of someone working in Kuala Lumpur is RM10,549 while the median salary for someone working in Selangor is RM8,210. That means one would earn up to 30% extra per month if one were to work in KL instead of Selangor. Just need to note that this is median and that KL would have more of the high paying jobs because someone working within the KL CBD cannot be having a lower pay than someone working in Kajang. Else, better work in Kajang lah since properties in Kajang is much cheaper than KL.

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EPF

Our EPF returns over the years?

This statement has been mentioned to me many times by many different people. In actual fact, EPF has given me one of the best returns for many years and for recent years, the returns are higher than my FD returns and higher than the home loan repayment interest which I have to pay. There’s no guarantee it could be the same in the future but my wish is for this to continue and remain as high as possible.

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ABCs of Personal Finance

Startups: Focus back on fundamental; profitability and not subsidy.

I have been investing for the last 24 years I think. I started buying unit trust way back in 2020. Haha. I continue to be invested in the stock market and the amount remain substantial. I do NOT look at my stocks every minute, hour and day. Call me lazy, call me busy or even just say I know what I am reallying buying into. I also have no cryptocurrency. I do not understand it enough.

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ABCs of Personal Finance

RM240,000 is the minimum we need to have in EPF when we retire

If this is a question for me, “Should I withdraw my EPF before 55?” My answer is a simple one, NO. My main reason is because EPF savings is really for post-retirement, when our active income has stopped or has gone down significantly versus the time when one was still working full time and thus has monthly income. In fact, I would like to leave the savings in EPF inside EPF as long as possible so that I have something to fall back upon.

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personal finance
ABCs of Personal Finance

Personal Finance 101: 5 things that could happen when we have extra money

It’s the beginning of the month. Salary has just been credited and we have just withdrawn a lumpsum amount of money and all the notes are now in the wallet. Okay, perhaps these days the younger ones do not need to siwthdraw money. They just need to load their e-wallets. Whatever way you chose, it’s the beginning of the month and you have money… What will happen next is… we will think we are rich and we will start spending…

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inflation
ABCs of Personal Finance

Interest rate will go up further in Jan 2023

Maybank IB says that it’s possible for Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) to increase the rate by another 25 basis points. It’s 0.25%. If we are thinking of buying a home or even paying for a mortgage currently, what’s the impact of this potential 0.25% rate increase? For a RM500,000 home and a 10% deposit, a change in 0.25% rate would mean a change of monthly repayment by roughly RM61.

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ABCs of Personal Finance

EPF Malaysia says RM600,000 needed to retire comfortably

Many years ago, a good friend said that she would need RM2 million to retire not-so-comfortably. That’s many years ago, probably she would have changed the retirement fund aspiration higher. Well, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) says that Malaysians should have at least RM600,000 in order to retire comfortably in major cities. I read through their chief strategy officer Nurhisham Hussein’s comments and I believe this amount already includes the amount needed for shelter; a roof over our head even if we do not own a property.

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ABCs of Personal Finance

Fixed Deposit rate will be higher now. Happy?

Okay, when our Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) increased the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR), then the banks would adjust their lending rates as well. At the same time, depositors will also get higher returns too. BNM just increased our OPR by another 25 basis points which is 0.25%. Our new OPR would be 2.75%. The ceiling and floor rates of the corridor of the OPR are correspondingly increased to 3.00 percent and 2.50 percent, respectively.

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inflation
ABCs of Personal Finance

Get ready to LOSE a lot of our money because of inflation

Recently, it has been revealed that many developed countries are suffering from double digit inflation and that’s one major reason why they kept increasing their interest rates in order to tame inflation. One example is the U.S. The interest rates have been raised to the most current 3.8% from an average of 0.9% in 2020. It’s 4x higher versus that starting point. With all these expectations, the US$ continued to chalk new highs versus all major currencies except those which is pegged or linked to it.

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inflation
ABCs of Personal Finance

Why buy property? Better save RM1 million instead

Recently, it has been revealed that many developed countries are suffering from double digit inflation and that’s one major reason why they kept increasing their interest rates in order to tame inflation. One biggest example is the U.S. The interest rates have been raised to the most current 3.8% from an average of 0.9% in 2020. It’s 4x higher versus that starting point. With all these expectations, the US$ continued to chalk new highs versus all major currencies except those which is pegged or linked to it.

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