moving to investmentphilippines.com

After a hiatus, I have finally created a better website wherein I can share my opinions and knowledge about finance. I'm moving this blog to investmentphilippines.com.


This blog will cover topics about stocks, mutual funds, UITF, real estates, business and franchising, personal finance and other related topics about investing in the Philippines.

The main reason that I have created this site is to widen my horizon in the world of finances by studying about the various topic while sharing it with my reader. Hope you will like my new blog and learn from it...see you there!

The Effect of Interest Rate Hike to Philippine Stocks

Interest rate hike, the monster in every investor's cabinet, was finally started yesterday as announced by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. An increase of 25 BSP(basis point) or 0.25% was implemented.  So are we expecting another panic in the stock market now?

Stocks 101: The Basic Part 2

Last time I've already discussed the definition of stocks and the essential rights of a shareholder. For the previous post please click here, Stocks 101: The Basic Part 1.


Note that whenever I mention stocks, I am referring to common stocks only. I will not be touching about the preferred stocks since I'm not investing on it and only a few small time investors have it.

EDC (Energy Development Corporation), A Tsunami Stock

Since 2009, I have seen the potential of this company because its business is Power, which is rapidly growing in the Philippines. In fact, next year, the total capacity of the all the power plants is at the critical level due to high power demand. Law of supply and demand will favor the companies in these sector but EDC has more advantage. With the oil price expected to surge up due to Middle East revolution and Japan crisis, EDC will be the least affected since its fuel are renewables (Geothermal, Hydro or Water and they will start the Wind next year).

Below is my e-mail to my friends last month, Feb 17 when EDC stocks is at 5.5+ level.

New and Views: PH and Japan Economy

PH Economy
For the first time since 1998, our country, the Philippines, have a budget surplus. In short, the government save some money (finally, our government became a role model to all the Filipinos). This is a sign of good governance and if sustainable will be translated to growth. Economic growth means more jobs and more jobs means more money for the common people. Some of these money, hopefully, will be invested to our stock market....Hurray!!!

For complete news, see the link below:
http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?title=Surplus%20for%20January&id=28077


Japan Economy
Every single day since Friday last week, news about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan are bombarding us nonstop.

Stocks 101: The Basic Part 1

It's been a long time since I posted in this blog since I was busy with new projects this year and studies (about Options, Korean stock market and Derivatives). However, I have several friends who occasionally ask me about the stocks basic so I decided to continue this blog.

What is stocks?
Stocks is a piece business own by the shareholders. To understand it, let us take SMPH as an example.
SMPH or SM Prime Holdings is the company that own and operates the SM Malls in the Philippines and China.  This company is divided into 13,898,943,067 outstanding shares or stocks. Owning one of these stocks will make you a part owner of those malls...so does it mean I can go to any SM mall and do a shopping spree for free? Or can I demand from the sales lady to prioritize my purchases during the midnight sale since I'm a part owner of SMPH?  Dream on...