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I believe insurance have two perspectives: insurance as a business and insurance as a promise. Being a business, insurance companies need to focus on marketability, profitability, sustainability, and other factors…READ

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THE Philippines has again become an unwitting dumping ground for some other country’s unwanted garbage, as tons of plastic trash from South Korea have apparently been abandoned at a port…READ MORE

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In traversing the world of finance, it is not unusual to encounter terminologies and terms exclusively used by finance practitioners and economists which may confuse the man on the street….READ MORE

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By now, everyone is familiar with the Tax Reform for Attracting Better and High-quality Opportunities (Trabaho) bill, the second phase of Republic Act (RA) 10963, or the Tax Reform for…READ MORE

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Let’s admit it. All of us have been guilty of our own money mistakes—those habits or things that throw money down the drain. A bit of a splurge here, some…READ MORE

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In observance of Mental Health Awareness Week earlier this month, an online news site endeavored to explain to readers what depression sounds like by having a person suffering from the…READ MORE

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Because listed companies have issued common shares to public investors, they are considered public as far as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) are…READ MORE

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Footnotes in financial statements (FS) explain accounting entries, which, to a layman, could be too complicated to understand. Being public investors, they invest on common shares listed on the Philippine…READ MORE

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WITH the curtain being raised on the campaign for the 2019 midterm elections, showing concern for the impact of inflation on ordinary Filipinos has suddenly become all the rage among politicians, with the excise tax on fuel being the focus of much of their attention. Consumer activists and opposition politicians have been calling for the […]

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Right at the start of the Virtual Stock Trading Challenge, all of the players showed some capabilities to make decisions. For instance, the game’s youngest player, who was just starting to learn how to invest in the stock market, surprisingly displayed a good degree of facility in decision-making. He was immediately able to come up […]

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