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PSE-iACADEMY 4th Run of the Certified Securities Specialist Program

The PSE and iACADEMY School of Continuing Education are launching the 4th Run of the PSE-iACADEMY Certified Securities Specialist Course (CSSC) on Monday, February 10, 2014.

The Certification Program is comprised of 136 classroom hours divided into three weekly sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays from 6-9 pm over 16 weeks. Classes are held at the iACADEMY campus on Ayala Avenue, directly across from the PSE.

The program starts on February 10 for a learning investment of P55,000. Aside from the courses, there will also be a Review & Mock Exam and a Comprehensive Exam. Participants who pass the exam will earn the privilege of being Certified Securities Specialists.

We encourage the following individuals to attend this Program: Financial Planners/Advisors, Chief Financial Officers, Investors and Leaders & Other Professionals interested in the financial markets.

The program was designed by a group of notable professors and market practitioners with the goal of financial literacy for those who are interested in and involved in the markets. As such, the curriculum covers a diverse range of fifteen subjects, including: Financial Excel, Quantitative Methods of Finance, Valuation, Fundamental & Technical Analysis, Raising Capital in the Capital Markets and Securities Regulation.

For inquiries, please email Sales & Marketing at short.course@iacademy.edu.ph. You may also call 889-7777 local 352. Early bird rates apply to those who register & pay by January 27, 2014.

Note: This is a sponsored post.

What Will Make You Poor This Year

We just said goodbye to just one of the most emotional, heartbreaking, yet hopeful year of the century. Resilience was the overused and over-abused but truthful word last year that came out from the mouths of foreign media men, politicians, and Hollywood celebrities alike.

In my opinion, being resilient is good but not enough. If we never learn from previous mistakes in making financial decisions, calamities or no calamities, we will still remain poor.

These and the following bad financial decisions will bury you further in brokenness and anxiety. Although they may not always be applicable to you but I’m pretty sure you definitely know someone who will, in one way or another, become a (willing) victim of these circumstances. Continue reading What Will Make You Poor This Year

Will I Lose My UITF Investment When The Bank Closes Down?

From a blog inquirer: “Interesado po ako na mag-invest sa sinasabi ninyo na UITF sa bangko. Pero madami na po akong nabalitaan na mga bangko na nagsarado. Hindi po ba ako mahirapan na kunin ang pera ko kung sakaling magsarado ang bangko na pagkukuhanan ko ng UITF?”

One of our favorite investment vehicles in the Philippines are the UITF’s or unit investment trust funds. This type of bank product that allows the bank’s clients and other investors to avail of affordable pooled funds that are invested in various financial instruments. However, these are not insured by the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation or PDIC.

So if and when a bank goes bankrupt and its owners decides to close it down, your investment in their UITF product will also become part of the history, right? Continue reading Will I Lose My UITF Investment When The Bank Closes Down?