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One of the best sources of passive income aside from stocks and bonds is buying an investment property.Investing in a residential condominium, an apartment, or an office unit for purposes of renting it out generates steady monthly rental paychecks similar to buying ...

There is a saying that you make most of your money in a bear market, but you just don’t realize it at the time.But in a stock market that has been falling for four months now, it is difficult to tell when ...

The Ayala group of companies recently acquired majority control of publicly listed company Phinma Energy for its power-related projects via backdoor listing.A backdoor listing, which is also called a reverse takeover, happens when a private company acquires majority control of a publicly ...

Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) has announced a three-year fixed rate peso bond offering at an interest rate of 4.426% per annum. According to the bank, the issuance will be the third drawdown off of its P100 billion Bond and Commercial Paper (BCP) ...

The power of cravings should never be underestimated. Snack startup Gourmanok knows the way to a consumer’s pocket is through his stomach. And their investors know it too.After a successful run on CNN Philippines’s business reality show The Final Pitch, Gourmanok managed to ...

Many entrepreneurs have struggled with getting bank loans and traditional funding to get their businesses off the ground, but startups and small and medium enterprises can now look to crowdfunding as a means to fulfill their ventures. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...

The mere mention of a second passport sparks a number of questions, from how much it costs to how long it takes to get one. First things first: A potential applicant must know if he or she is eligible to apply for one. Knowing ...

The country's largest oil refiner, Petron Corp., is starting the sale of its preferred shares on Monday, May 27, at a price of P1,000 each, the company announced in a disclosure to the stock exchange last week. The indicative dividend rates of the ...

Many people who are employed may not notice the meager amount deducted from their monthly salaries that go to their Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG) accounts. After all, what's a few hundred pesos? But cumulatively, and most especially when checked years after the ...

Gold has always been a popular investment vehicle for the world’s wealthiest so it was quite a surprise to hear that that isn’t the case here in the Philippines. According to Joshua Rotbart, founder and managing partner of J. Rotbart and Co., ...

The Philippine National Bank (PNB) is inviting customers looking to diversify their investment portfolios to consider the bank's latest two-year peso fixed rate bonds offer.The offering, worth at least P5 billion, has an annual interest rate of 6.3 percent. The PNB bonds will ...

SMC Global Power Holdings Corp., the power subsidiary of San Miguel Corporation, is offering up to P30-billion worth of fixed-rate bonds to be issued in three series with varying maturity dates and tenors.Interested investors can choose between the 3-year Series H bonds ...

After understanding the difference between saving and investing, the next question to answer is where to invest your money so it can grow and work for you. Take it from Warren Buffett, the third richest person in the world: “If you don’t ...

PH Resorts Group Holdings Inc., the listed hotel and gaming firm of Davao businessman Dennis Uy, will offer follow-on primary shares worth P18.5 billion to the public by the third week of March.The firm disclosed on Friday, February 15, that it plans ...

“Don’t just save your money, invest it!”How many times have you heard that before? It’s a very common piece of advice given to people who want to grow their money. Investing your money allows you to put it in vehicles with higher ...

By now, you’ve probably grown tired of every financially responsible adult’s most doled-out advice: invest while you’re still young. Most of the time, the lecture is followed by how to get into the stock market or how to your park your savings ...

The Philippine stock market had a pretty bad 2018.In fact, a Bloomberg article said that it was the stock market’s worst year since 2008. (And 2008 was a really bad year, considering the world was in the middle of a financial crisis.) ...

Environmental sustainability has continued to become one of the most important issues on Filipinos’ minds. A 2017 YouGov survey said that 63 percent of Filipinos think businesses should ensure that their supply chain does not harm the environment, while a 2018 Kantar survey ...

Legendary investor Warren Buffett used to say that the greatest risk in investing is when you don’t know what you are doing.Very often, many people invest in financial products that they don’t understand. They act based on their emotions without the appropriate ...

Many people make the mistake of building their retirement funds by simply saving money in the bank. Putting your money in a savings account that earns less than one percent per year will not help you to retire early. You would still probably ...