The Family FQ Workshop by the Faustos

My good friend Rose Fres Fausto, a family financial literacy advocate, will be hosting an event called Family FQ Workshop on May 9, 2014.

This workshop aims to help parents and children to work together in attaining the richer quality of life  and relationships they deserve.

Here’s a take away from Rose’s article on the Philippine Star and her blog RaisingPinoyBoys.com: Continue reading The Family FQ Workshop by the Faustos

Rock Bands and Artists That Rock About Personal Finance

I have been a musician for more than 2 decades already. Gosh, it’s revealing my age! I’m already 25! 😉

As I have been saying to my fellow financial literacy advocates, we can not stay educators of the rest of the Philippine nation with our “boring” methods of teaching if we really want to reach out to every Filipino. We need to be more creative and more entertaining in our approach so that we can be heard and craved by people to be heard again.

That is why in our upcoming Angat Pilipinas Financial Literacy Awards 2015, we’re bringing in our celebrity volunteers like Jojo Alejar, Joyce Burton-Titular, Jao Mapa (why do their names all start in letter “J”???), Miriam Quiambao, etc. as we believe that with their following and showbiz influence, they can be great ambassadors of financial literacy. Continue reading Rock Bands and Artists That Rock About Personal Finance

ALERT! New Scams To Defraud Filipinos in 2015

A lot of you are aware that I deleted my previous “scam alert” post late last year. Scammers and online fraudsters did not only attack my article but even threatened me and my family. One of the scammers even sent me the complete address and number of my loved ones. That’s how sneaky you are fraudsters.

I hope you are doing great this time, my fraudster reader after hearing and watching the news about the warning from the Securities and Exchange Commission on Emgoldex. I may have paused for a while but there will be many others who will not back down and continue the fight against greedy people like you.

But let’s end that chapter of your story today. You have some stiff competition that we need to pin down as well. Continue reading ALERT! New Scams To Defraud Filipinos in 2015