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A collection of previously written articles sorted according to categories. If you can't find what you are looking for, feel free to email me at shanesee03@gmail.com

Personal Finance
1. You Don't Need To Be A Genius To Manage Your Money
2. e-Banking Fraud, when's your turn?
3. How Much $ Is Enough?
4. Investing In Yourself
5. Financial Freedom, Making It Your Own Business
6. 4 Simple Tips to Manage Your Finance Better
7. How Does GST, Subsidy Cuts, Credit Rating affects us as Malaysian?
8. Planning Your Child's Higher Education Fund..Even If You're Not Married
9. "Spend Less Then What You Earn" - Still Can Pakai?
10. Beauty of Compounding Interest
11. Simple Guide On How To Start Your Own Child Education Plan
12. 5 Financial and Investing Quick Wins to Kick Start Your 2016

All About Unit Trust Investing
1. Charges For Purchasing Unit Trust / Mutual Funds

2. Absolute Return, A New Approach In Unit Trust Investing
3. A Guide Towards Understanding Unit Trust Performance Table
4. The Edge-Lipper 2013 Awards Results!

5. Understanding Volatility and Sharpe Ratio in Unit Trust Investing
6. Top 10 Unit Trust based on Volatility and Sharpe Ratio
7. 4 Reasons Why Unit Trust Investing is Negatively Perceived
8. Amanah Saham Bumiputera (ASB) vs Unit Trust Fund
9. 4 Myths About Unit Trust Investing
10. Gold and Precious Metal Investment via Unit Trust
11. Stocks or Unit Trust? You Decide!
12. Dollar Cost Averaging In Unit Trust! Is it Practicable?
13. Unit Trust Statistics - What You Do Not Know
14. Mutual Fund Must Be Full of Con Men?
15. Why Investors Lost Money from China Equity based Unit Trust Fund?
16. All About Investing Into Unit Trust via EPF Withdrawal
17. eUnittrust, making online unit trust investing easy and convenient
18. Sales Charge From Unit Trust Investing, Are You Getting Your Money's Worth?
19. Why Pay More Sales Charge? Start Investing online at only 2% Sales Charge
20. Selecting Unit Trust via the "Portfolio Cash Allocation" method
21. Malaysia Unit Trust vs ETF, which one is Better Performing?

Unit Trust Award Winners
1. Lipper Fund Award 2015 - Start Investing In Consistent Winners
2. Results of Morningstar Malaysia Awards 2015
3. Lipper Fund Award 2014 - Finding Out The Consistent Winners!
4. The Edge-Lipper 2013 Awards Results!
5. Lipper Fund Award 2012 - Seems Like Every Unit Trust Fund Has One!

Reviews and Reports
1. Unit Trust Fund Performance Review - 1st Quarter 2016
2. Deciphering The Top 10 Performing "Growth Category" PRS Funds - End of 2015

Investing in Stocks
1. Predicting Signs of An Approaching Bear Market
2. Predicting The Stock Market Trend, An Analysis Based on % Unemployment Rate
3. Using Yield Curve to Predict The Stock Market
4. Scary Financial Headlines, Don't Be Mislead!

Investing in Gold
1. The Basics of Gold Investing and Finding the Best Bargain!

Investing in Private Retirement Scheme (PRS)
1. Private Retirement Scheme (PRS), What's In Store For Investors? - Part 1
2. Private Retirement Scheme (PRS), What Is The Expected Performance? - Part 2
3. Private Retirement Scheme (PRS), Enjoying The Benefits of Tax Relief - Part 3
4. Top performing PRS funds! Find out how your PRS is doing

Investing in Fixed Deposit
1. FIXED DEPOSIT of 4% per Annum, Now Available!

Inflation
1. Part 1 : Do You Really Know What Inflation Is???
2. Discovering Malaysia's Actual Inflation Rate!
3. Indonesia's Inflation Crisis...Malaysians should learn from it!

4. The Impact of Standards & Poor and Fitch Rating towards Malaysia

Amanah Saham Bumiputera / Amanah Saham
1. Amanah Saham Bumiputera, Taking Loans to Pay Dividend?
2. Investing In Amanah Saham via Personal Loan, should you or should you not?
3. Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad - Part 1 (Introduction)
4. Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad - Part 2 (Amanah Saham Gemilang Fund)
5. Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad - Part 3 (Amanah Saham Nasional 3 Imbang Fund)
6. How Amanah Saham Bumiputera (ASB) Calculates Dividend and Bonus
7. Amanah Saham Bumiputra (ASB) showing signs of Weakness? Here are 2 reasons that you should be aware of!

Insurans & Takaful
1. The Many Varieties of Takaful Investment Linked Funds
2. Review of Prudential Investment Linked Funds
3. Have You Bought Your Insurance Yet?

Investing in Annuity Programs
1. Unwrapping PRUretirement Growth Plan As A Case Study
2. HLA Cash Promise, What's All The Fuss About?