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Higher salary means more money for spending!

Civil servants will receive double digits adjustments in salary. This has been long announced but now we have the actual number. It’s positive definitely. More money means more spending. More spending means more growth. Just need to remind everyone that the civil service is the backbone of any nation. Thus, please do better and keep improving year after year. I also personally believe that the people with a lower salary should receive a higher percentage and not the same percentage too. We have too many examples of CEOs giving themselves amazing salary and then they fire the lower paying employees when the company is not performing well. Ahem….?

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Latest News in colour: Stock Market in red and Ringgit in the Green

If you noticed the stock market movements, it has been doing well recently. It seems that the foreign investors are also back by looking at the numbers. HOWEVER, today, the stock market is in the red. As they say nothing can continue to climb up continuously and sometimes a breather is needed before the next new height. I hope this comes true.

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Financial news: What happens when most countries have fewer babies?

If I am a milk powder producer and I produce only baby milk powders, I should be worried about my future maybe 50 years from now? There are definitely enough time to transform into producing milk powder for the seniors too. The number of new babies are declining throughout the world. There are many reasons but I think the biggest factor would be that people have so many distractions in the world today versus just going home early everyday and lights off by 930pm daily. People are working longer hours. Couples want more time for themselves. Cost of living is increasing especially the cost of raising kids. Travelling is also far easier when alone or as a couple versus as a family of 3 or 4.

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Financial news: If I am hungry, I could not continue working lah

If there are businesses who needs to hire interns but could not afford to pay an intern, there are just 2 conclusions. First one is that the business is NOT big enough to hire an intern yet. So the business owner just need to work faster, work more hours, work better and do all of the work by himself / herself. Second one is that this business is just NOT sincere and is looking to take advantage of the situation. Decide on which one and then take appropriate actions.

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ABCs of Personal Finance

Personal Finance 101: Nope, EVs do not save you money. Get serious!

Over 10 years ago, my wife told me about her colleague who shared that he bought a hybrid car because he wanted to save on fuel. It could be driven like many hundreds of km and the cost to pump petrol is super low. I laughed. Please note that we can never save enough from petrol costs in order to make these hybrids become cost-effective to our expenses yeah. Hybrid cars of the same size versus petrol cars are usually double or higher the price of a similarly sized car. Let’s just do a simple calculation as below.

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ABCs of Personal Finance

Financial news: When inflation meets head-on with renters

“This is the worst housing crisis in 30 years,” said Gabriel Mraida, president of the Buenos Aires municipality’s Institute of Housing. According to income tax data “there are some 70,000 registered rental housing units in the city, but… about 500,000 households are tenants, just to give you an idea” of the scale of informal rental, he told AFP. Do read the full article with a lot more stories here: article in nst.com.my

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ABCs of Personal Finance

Financial News: Household Income Classification – B1 to T2. What’s the actual number?

I have friends who are no longer working and is way below the typical retirement age. One just came back from Pakistan and few weeks later went to Laos and few weeks from today will be going to another city in China. Another flew overseas and attend cooking classes. Another friend who is within the stsrting point of M40 classification below bought he third property a few years ago.

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Financial news: IHH Healthcare’s RM1.5 billion profit and KPJ Healthcare’s RM500mil capex

The world, especially the more advanced nations are all having ageing population themes. Even Malaysia is becoming an ageing nation. The demand for quality healthcare is thus growing by leaps and bounds and we can see this in Malaysia where the private hospitals are usually full and Malaysia is also a favourite destination for many when it comes to medical tourism. We have both quality and affordability especially when compared to many much more advanced nations

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Financial news: Thou shall not run away from tax

Malaysia’s Income Tax Act says that the administrator or next-of-kin of the deceased persons have to settle their tax areears. What this tells us is that no one could escape tax, even if the person has left this world. This Act acts to ensure the person does not delay paying the tax and then when the person dies, the government of the day would ave to write this off. Just need to note that if the person has no financial ability to pay, the government would have no choice but to write it off. Think… who will have to pay for this if the government decides to write it off?

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Financial news: When the economy is supported by domestic consumption

Too many friends I know say that the Malaysian economy is bad. These friends did these things: two went to Norway… one bought a new EV… MANY have the top of the range branded smartphone… most others are on holidays where the hotels they stay really does show that they have the money to pay. Let’s say I believe all of them. It meant that they represent minority then? Since, the Malaysian economy in Q1 2023 is estimated to be GROWING by 5.7 percent and the main reason for this expansion in economy is domestic consumption.

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