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Blog: Finance and Romance – The Question of Financial Compatibility

By By Lester Yee, contributing columnist | May 27, 2014 - 3:56pm

Looking at my newsfeed on Facebook, I see a lot of my acquaintances and friends getting engaged or tying the knot. I am now 26, and many of my friends are roughly the same age. Although being in a committed and exclusive...

Business

Blog: Profit and Sustainability

By Lester Yee, contributing columnist | May 26, 2014 - 4:43pm

I have personally experienced the aversion of welfare workers to the concept of profit. While teaching management analysis for the masters program of the Development Academy of the Philippines for the Doctors to...

Business

Blog: Financial Literacy Caravans

By Lester Yee, contributing columnist | May 24, 2014 - 8:40pm

Last 2013, I was fortunate enough to have been invited as part of the pool of speakers of an organization called Junior Confederation of Finance Associations – Philippines. This student organization is an alliance...

Business

Blog: Why I still believe in saving in a bank

By Lester Yee, contributing columnist | May 20, 2014 - 6:19pm

Thirty years ago, I heard that interest rates from the banking system were about 20% per year. Back then, it seemed to make perfect sense to deposit money in the bank. As discussed before, interest is the price of...

Business

Dealing with Debt

By Lester Yee, contributing columnist | May 19, 2014 - 2:56pm

Let’s say that when you read this article, you are already buried in debt. Your credit card bill is already very high, and you receive calls left and right from the bank or from collection agencies. You racked...

Unblogged

Understanding the Power of Credit Cards

By Lester Yee, contributing columnist | May 15, 2014 - 3:13pm

Credit card debt is by far one of the biggest problems of many Filipinos. According to statistics compiled by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, total credit card debt in the Philippine banking system has totaled Php157.394...

Business

Vested Interests

By Lester Yee, contributing columnist | May 14, 2014 - 4:28pm

As I discussed last time, money has a price, and this price is called interest. When you borrow money from a bank, a micro-financing institution or an informal money lender, you have to pay interest. However, interest...

Business