My Financial Thoughts

Are you an ardent fan of online shopping, specifically from US?
I know that Citibank has recently gotten a partnership with Globeshopper and it enables you to ship your purchases back to Malaysia at discounted shipping rates! Click here to see it.
Registering is free, but you have to be a Citibank card member. Upon signing up [...]

The Department of Statistics will release the inflation rate for April tomorrow.
Today, Business Times polled an average of 3.27 as the expected inflation rate for April 2009.
It reported that the decline in fuel prices has started to kick-in and we should all be expecting lower prices in the months to come.
However, one will question what [...]

Today’s Star had an article which says starting from 1 July 2009, car owners who buy motor insurance directly from insurance companies without using the services of an agent will qualify for mandatory rebates.
New customers will be given a 5% rebate on their insurance if they buy it via channels such as the internet, telemarketing, direct [...]

In the papers recently, there has been a series of property campaigns which are aimed at making it easier for prospective home owners to own a home.
Most notably are the Parade of Homes by Sime Darby as well as the 5/95 campaign by SP Setia. Last week, I also came across PKNS doing the same [...]

I am a big fan of unit trust for one main reason – I do not need to actively research on the stocks to buy into. I used to think that all I need to do is to get an agent and be done with it.
However, to my dismay, I later learnt that I still need [...]