Angat Pilipinas Coalition for Financial Literacy – Call for Submissions

Angat Pilipinas Coalition for Financial Literacy is seeking projects and encouraging volunteer personal finance writers who have unpublished articles and essays to submit to us.

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Articles embracing any aspect of personal finance are welcome, including financial literacy for tots and teens, personal finance subjects in school, insurance literacy for high school/college students, basic stock market investing, raising financially-smart children, budgeting, allowances, savings accounts, mutual funds, financing college, responsible borrowing, banking services, etc.

We are also accepting logo drafts and tagline suggestions for the coalition.

Book reviews of personal finance works are also solicited.

Notices of conferences, webinars, seminars, calls for papers, and similar advocacy announcements will be accepted.

For submission guidelines and other information, please contact Ann Angala-Shy at admin@pinoymundobiz.org or call +63 917 576 9198. Continue reading Angat Pilipinas Coalition for Financial Literacy – Call for Submissions

Financial Literacy: Not in DepEd’s Agenda

Most children in the Philippines are financially-spoiled.

And most parents in the Philippines don’t teach their children the real value of money. When kids want to have something, most of the time, the parents will just give in and will do everything they can to look for money. Never mind if the money is credit card money. Or money borrowed from neighbor or officemates.

Most children are not taught to save money and to work hard to get what they want. However small or big that thing is.

What makes it sadder is that most Philippine schools do not even teach basic personal finance subjects to their young students. And saddest, most teachers are financially- illiterate as well. Continue reading Financial Literacy: Not in DepEd’s Agenda

My 3-Guard Combo Stock Market Investing/Trading Strategy

After sharing my stock market investing/soft trading strategies to the readers of Fitz Villafuerte’s latest blog post “Are You an Investor or a Trader? A Simple Test To Find Out“, I thought I should share them to my readers as well.

But before I do that, let me just emphasize once more the difference between an investor and a trader, as defined so clearly by Fitz like the crystal pristine waters of the South Pacific Ocean.

According to Fitz,

Investing is long-term, which means you buy, hold and sell after several years or even decades.

Trading is short-term, which means you buy and then sell only after a few days, weeks or months. Continue reading My 3-Guard Combo Stock Market Investing/Trading Strategy