It’s All In The Planning!

What to avoid when you go for job interviews: being too honest. You can be completely candid and feel good afterwards, but being totally honest during the interview is courting disaster. For instance, if you’re asked why you left your previous employer, you shouldn’t say that you resigned because your boss is a pain in [...]

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Who has the right to administer the estate of a deceased? A PERSON making a will can direct how the inheritance is to be passed on. He may also name one or more executors and trustees to administer the estate. However, there is no guarantee that everything will proceed smoothly or that each beneficiary will [...]

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Earlier this yeatr, I was running a poll to ask job seekers to estimate how much they could accumulate in their Employees Provident Fund (EPF) by the time they retire. The EPF is a statutory body in Malaysia which collects monthly contributions from both employers and employees, and an employee can only withdraw from his [...]

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Experience gives players the edge over the competition. THE results of two recent chess tournaments here and elsewhere have left me doubly convinced that experience can be a great leveller. Time and again, the player with the greater experience has shown the resilience to come up tops in chess events. In faraway Khanty-Mansiysk, the experience [...]

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Don’t be intimidated by the requirements of the job that you are interested in. Just go all out for it, regardless of whether you are a fresh graduate or already in employment, or if the job requires someone with a, say, two-year experience in the field. Stay true to the passion within you and dare [...]

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Two Malaysian children are now undergoing intensive training in Beijing. OUR two chess youngsters Yeoh Li Tian and Tan Li Ting are immersing themselves to the fullest at the Beijing Chess Institute where they are presently undergoing an exclusive seven-week training programme. According to 10-year-old Li Tian’s father, Yeoh Chin Seng, who also happens to [...]

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The days of the cheque book may be numbered in Malaysia and Singapore too, if this latest development from the United Kingdom is anything to go by: Sky News reported yesterday quoted the UK’s Payments Council as saying that cheques would be phased out by 31 Oct 2018. The 15-strong body, comprising members of the [...]

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You have heard of Marc Andreessen, haven’t you? I’m sure you have. He’s the guy who founded Netscape Communication, the company that introduced the Netscape web browser to the world. Once, he was reflecting that the world was an incredibly complex place and everything was changing all the time. Don’t we all know that? Yes, [...]

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The season of giving is here and the holiday mood is in the air. Before I plan for my vacation, there’s one thing that I’m looking forward to plan and give my 100% attention. Shopping for GIFTS! They said that its better to give than to receive. But it’s not a necessity to give gifts [...]

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A US-BASED professor has slammed the financial industry for perpetuating investment fallacies that do little to educate retail investors about risk and return, writes Genevieve Cua in Singapore’s The Business Times. These fallacies include the oft-repeated maxim that diversification reduces risk, and that risky assets such as stocks become safer as the holding period gets [...]

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