Tuesday, February 26, 2008

How to Pay Off your mortgage

Hi! my friend, i would like to share some stategies on how you can cut down your houseing loan payments to five years or less. for those always puzzling or suffering paying house loan for 20-30 tenure years. it may helps you !

1. Pay the loan as soon as you get the money
2. Pay a little bit extra every month
3. Pay every fortnighly(instead of monthly)
4. Pay early (before the due date)
5. pay the loan anytime you have extra cash
6. Maintain the same payment even when the interest rate drops
7. Increase the payment amount if you get a pay rise
8. Sell off unused goods and use the money to pay the loan
9. Refinance the loan to another bank offering a lower interest

hope it helps you all! ^______^

Monday, February 25, 2008

理財八寶箱:房產與股票的投資學差異

25th Feb 08

房產不是股票。

當然,你可能不會將所居住的房屋,與你在經紀公司帳戶清單上的那些投資項目混為一談。


不過,思考一下二者之間的區別,有助于解釋為何人們都喜歡擁有房產,而一些房產主目前為何深陷困境。以下是房產與股票和股票型共同基金相比的五個主要的不同之處。

1.直到出售時,才能知道房子價格。

通過互聯網只需要幾分鐘,你就能瞭解所持有的股票或股票型基金的價格。但賣房子不同,只有在買家出價后,你才會知道房產價值。這給人們留下了豐富的夢想空間。你可以愉快地想象你的房產是一項上佳的穩定投資,因為與股票不同,它的價格不會變來變去。你也可愉快地想象房屋價值大大地提升了。

但如果你在當前動盪的房產市場上希望出售房屋,這種優越感可能成為巨大的障礙。如果你堅持高價出售,可能難以找到買家。實際上,如果你已經搬走,而你的房屋空置在那裡,你的固執會讓你失去大把鈔票。

2.擁有房屋費用率高昂。

可以把你的房產看作費用率很高的股票型基金。每年,你都要付出一大筆錢,包括維修費、物業稅和業主保險等等,大概相當于房產價值的3%至3.5%。此外,還有水電費,可能還要每月償還貸款。如果你能充分利用好你的房屋,這些成本或許不算什么。但如果你有一處空置房屋要出手,這意味著,在沒有買家光顧的情況下,你每月都要燒錢。

3.房屋出售時要支付高昂的佣金。

不但持有房產的成本不低,購買時也要付出相當費用,而出售的費用則更驚人。

購買房產要支付房屋檢查費、律師費、所有權保險、搬遷費和抵押貸款申請費。出售也要產生搬遷費和律師費。但大頭卻是房地產佣金,一般要佔到你房產售價的5%或6%。

買賣股票的情況是,如果你選擇的是低價經紀商,那么交易成本相當低。

實際上,如果你喜歡無佣金共同基金,直接同此類基金公司進行交易,那么你就能免掉所有的交易成本。

4.擁有房屋,不用追加保證金。

用貸款購買房屋很常見,而只有激進的投資者才會用保證金賬戶購買股票。這並不值得大驚小怪。借錢購買房產,比借錢購買股票要安全得多。

何以如此呢?如果股市下跌,而你擁有通過保證金購買的股票,你就會收到經紀商追加保證金的要求,讓你向賬戶中追加資金或是股票。如果你不追加資金,你的部分或全部持倉就會被拋出,以鎖定損失。

與此不同的是,只要你償還按揭,銀行就不能強迫你追加現金或是賣出房屋,不管你的房價已下跌了多少。這能確保你不會被迫做出草率的決定。

不過,由于房屋所有者不會收到追加保證金的要求,他們在賣出房屋時,可能更容易拖延,也會對房屋的價值抱有一些不切實際的想法。

5.出租房屋「紅利」誘人,但並不是現金方式。

如果你現在購買了一批美國股票,你大概能獲得2%的股息收益。顯然,你更多地會寄望于股價大漲,給你帶來更高的收益。

同時,對房產而言,你不要對房屋價格上漲抱太大希望。根據聯邦住房貸款抵押公司(Freddie Mac)的數據,在過去30年里,房價的年均漲幅不到6%,而通脹率為4%。而且,即使你的房產達到這種漲幅,其中相當一部分也要被上面提到的3%或3.5%的費用率所抵消。

不過,對于房產而言,收益的大頭應該來自于「紅利」,即你獲得的租金收入。當然,我們大部分人都沒有房客,而是自己住在房子裡,相當于把房屋租給了自己。

好消息是,這種估算的租金很有價值。如果你把你的房產出租,你每年大概能獲得相當于房產價值7%的租金,從這裡可以看出,你住在自己的房子裡能實現多少價值。

一個額外好處是:租給自己從稅收角度而言是劃算的,因為你不必為這筆虛擬的租金收入納稅。

那壞消息是什么?你可能從房屋中獲得了真正的價值,但卻拿不到現金紅利。

由此可見,你可能應擁有一套剛好適合自己和家人居住,而並不過大的住房。如果你購買一棟比你真正的需要大很多的房屋會怎樣?這就相當于你租下了一座大廈,但只使用了其中的兩個房間。

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

US economy impact to Malaysia

滯脹將至-18th Feb 2008
美國將進入兩到三年的滯脹,並擴散到歐洲。新興經濟體同樣面臨高通貨膨脹。未來兩年最大的投資決策,就是如何應對通貨膨脹上升和經濟增長放緩。
眼下,全球股票市場已經崩盤,許多人將此歸咎于美國的衰退。不錯,這確實是原因之一,但更重要的是全球銀行資本損失引起的流動性萎縮。
當商業銀行向央行借貸,貨幣就被「創造」出來。過去幾年,全世界的銀行在信貸擴張中獲得了巨大的利潤,它們勁頭十足地擴張資產負債表上的項目,從而向全球金融系統注入了數量巨大的流動性。
現在我們知道,這些利潤只是會計上的幻覺。銀行一直靠一些廢紙來博取收益,所以,現在的損失不過是抵消昨日高估的利潤。虛假的利潤導致了流動性過剩和資產價格的高估。當資本金減少,銀行就不得不賣掉資產,付給央行現金以還債。當虛假的貨幣消失,全球資產價格也就恢復到了正常水平。央行再怎么降低利率,也無法讓這個過程逆轉。
滬市仍高估100%
從香港說起。面對全球流動性波動,香港市場總是比較脆弱。香港的希望基于13億中國人來購物的夢想,但事實上卻依賴于國際資金。當全球銀行緊縮資金,香港市場就會受到重創。
投資者通過對沖基金兩面下注,導致了市場波動,卻不能根本改變市場價格。當銀行抽出資金,資產價格會出現調整,以適應更低的流動性水平。1998年香港市場曾經崩潰,當時很多人怪罪對沖基金,但最重要的原因,其實是日本銀行機構因為本土損失而撤回資金。現在,歷史又重演了。
我想強調的是,目前發生的一切都是正常的。2007年8月,恆生指數還在2萬點以下,隨著散戶追隨那些突然出現的「股神」而湧進市場,這一指數猛衝到了3萬點。相對于一年前的情況,現在的指數水平是相當合理的。從市淨率來看,港股一點也不便宜。
香港市場還有一個風險,那就是保證金交易。許多散戶投資者,都是在2007年10月保證金借入最多的時候湧入市場的,而當市場衰退,追繳保證金就會帶來賣出的壓力。正是同一批投資者,還是用借來的錢,推動了香港高昂的樓市。我擔心,未來幾個月香港經濟會因為股市和樓市的衰退而受到重創。
由于A股和H股價差拉大,A股市場也已經開始調整。以中國石油為例,1月22日其在香港以9.61港元收市,在上海則是26.18人民幣,也就是說上海的價格比香港高出193%。這個巨大且越來越寬的價格鴻溝,正在損害上海投機者的信心。
我相信,雖然已經有所調整,上海市場還是被高估了100%。不過,經歷上一輪調整后,中國的股評家們將會拋出其他理由來鼓勵投機者。其最主要的論點是,中國與眾不同。他們會要求投資者對價差抱著「一直朝前走,不要朝兩邊看」的態度。
中國有13 億人,其中大概有數千萬是易于輕信的,只要股評家們能讓這些人相信他們,這個泡沫就能持續到北京奧運會以后。現在的調整只是屋頂上的風波,真正著陸還要等到奧運會開完。
美國不必救市
現在,全球金融市場已經如此龐大,其變化足以影響到真實經濟。因此,各國政府和央行必須對市場風暴做出回應。某種意義上,它們已經成了市場的人質。為了應對亞洲股市崩潰,美聯儲1月22日將基準利率削減了75個基點。美國政府也提出1450億美元的一攬子財政方案,其中主要是對家庭和企業的退稅。
這些動作不可謂不大,但不足以阻止經濟衰退或熊市的到來。相反,美國的這些政策將導致其經濟進入兩到三年的滯脹(經濟增長停滯與通脹並存)——比方說,2%的GDP增長,伴隨著4%的通脹。通過貨幣市場,滯脹還將擴散到歐洲。新興經濟體的增長可能更高一些,大概是6%-6.5%的增長率(過去3年是7.5%),但一樣會有高通脹。總而言之,未來兩年最大的投資決策就是如何應對通貨膨脹上升和經濟增長放緩。
米爾頓弗裡德曼曾論證,通貨膨脹總是貨幣現象,價格最終總是等于貨幣供給除以商品服務銷售額和貨幣流通速度的乘積。
經濟學家通常假設,貨幣流通速度不會改變,因為人們的行為模式在一兩年內是穩定的。對發達經濟體而言,這個假設正確,但在發展中經濟就不一定是那么回事。例如在中國,貨幣流通速度可能發生顯著改變,即使政策沒有變化,單單心理變化就能引起通貨膨脹或通貨緊縮。
讓事情更複雜的是資產市場和真實經濟對貨幣的爭奪。因為政府不把資產價格計算進CPI中,貨幣增加首先會抬升資產價格,由此帶來的結果是高資產價格、低通貨膨脹。但「天下沒有免費午餐」,最終高資產價格將引發高需求,從而導致通貨膨脹。
當通脹預期增加,人們不再願意持有貨幣,使得貨幣流通速度增加,進而更推動通貨膨脹。
在那斯達克興起和「911」之后,美聯儲將利率降到1%並保持了很長時間,這是全球資產泡沫及目前信貸危機的根源。
華爾街發明了越來越多的產品,努力把資產膨脹變成消費者可用的鈔票,這增加了通貨膨脹的壓力,迫使美聯儲提高利率。而高利率讓資產泡沫破滅,然后就是所有這些滑稽的信貸產品的崩盤。
對于這個過程,降低利率也無力回天,美聯儲的低政策利率再不能像以前那樣增加需求。
全球銀行的資本在流失,它們必須保留相當於資產規模8%的資本金,每失去1美元的資本金,就得縮減12美元的資產。次貸危機中,所有銀行累計損失了1000億美元,照此計算其資產規模減少了1.2兆美元。
未來,次貸、信用卡、車貸可能還會帶來1000億美元損失。

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Cost Control and Budget Planning. Plan and Execute!

if we neglect company cost and budget control,it will create a big impact to the company.
every 10% cost lowering, will help to increase profit of 5%.
clients is not equal to revenue, market not equal to profit, the crucial thing is how you can cut cost for the operation.

there are 12 points in cutting cost in the financial control:

1. 砍价专家
develop a financial control policy by a professional team of finance management. it include collect all the past years figures and documents, check the market and sales analysis, budget planning and etc.

2. 砍人手
human resource is important to the company. necessary training need to be execute in order to train an employee to know where is his /her potential to help the companies. else, company need to give necessary action to the employees in order to avoid "wrong" person work for the company.

3. 砍机构
decreasing department. sometimes an employee may have to b multi tasking. every department need to aim to help company to maximise profit and minize cost.

4. 砍固定资产
Fixed Asset is non flexible cash. all the fixed assets should be able to produce investment revenue at least above 25%.
if we would like to increase our cash, then it must have the additional value. else, we may have to borrow more money to secure the fixed asset.

5. 砍采购成本
build up rapport relationship with supplier, partners in order to lower the cost of business.

6. 砍预算
all departmental cut budget,and submit revenue report. ask every department analyse on budget.

7. 砍库存
stock reduce the cash flow and profit. decrease stock level.

8. 砍劣质客户
if those bad potential client, or bad debts customer, or those customer loss in trust, we do not have to entertain them anymore in order to avoid bigger losses.
focus on those good customers and get more new potential customers.

9. 砍日常开支
such as phone bills, petrol, entertainment, office expenses, travel allowance expenses and etc.
in terms of entertainment, we can choose the certain restaurant or those which we have member priviledges in order to make it standard for the cost.

10. 砍面子
no luxury. client just need efficiet , speed , high quality services and loyalty. low cost is always the crucial for the company.

11. 砍会议,砍聚会
straight to the point in the meeting to save more time and do more quality work for our time.
therefore, always prepare before the meeting. for those late in meeting , should have necessary penalty.
Once the plan has been confirmed in the meeting, must execute it in a certain timeline.

12. 封刀
always calculate profit and planning budget before execute. then, it will be able to control corporate cash flow, reduce human resource. by then, we wont get losses after we have done all the effort. 先算后做。。


Last but not least, financial management is always crucial to a corporate. cut cost, earn revenue and profit. understanding how to earn profit, even understand every employee, every plan and execution, to every product revenue and loss situation, need to shown in figures.

figures tells us how the company doing. Profit making company will be success and be able to contribute to the community, create useful product and cultivate more efficient environment.

let's us learn together to make more profit!

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Peace....

人与人之间相处,有时候真的是需要很大的学问。。这是我们也许一辈子都在学习的东西。因为每一个人都有自己的脾性,自己的思想,自己的性格,自己的原则和价值观。
小时候,常常会和隔壁的邻居争玩具,和要好的同学说我不要跟你好了。回想以前会觉得很可笑,也许这就是童真。
有时候,又很怀念小时候的童真,尤其是和好过后,大家又会叫另一个朋友说,我们和他一起玩啦。
长大后,就不可以像小时候这样了,不然会被别人取笑幼稚。当然,也因为我们的思想改变了,学习尊重别人,体谅别人。
虽然有时候,我们很不认同某人的作法,某人的性格,但是也必须要顾及别人的感受,不然只有吵架收场。
我们也不可以要求别人一定要认同你,因为他们也有他们的思想,他们的原则。但其实过后,反思或者客观地去反省这件事。。大家其实也没有必要去争执,反而多了大家了解的空间。
也许他也对,也许你也对,学会包容,忍耐和体谅。。确实是件很大的学问。。

Monday, February 4, 2008

Property to rise above stock market volatility


PETALING JAYA: There is still growth potential in the local property market although the prevailing volatility of the stock market has made property consultants and analysts more cautious of the upside.
While concerned that the recent stock market jitters, which saw the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) tumble 54.12 points or 3.84% on Jan 22, would affect property stocks in the near term, they are upbeat that the sector is able to ride out the negative investor sentiment.
Property consultant DTZ Nawawi Tie Leong Sdn Bhd executive director Brian Koh said volatile markets would present both threats and opportunities to institutional funds, who may view real estate in Malaysia as an attractive asset class, given a lack of alternatives in volatile markets elsewhere.
“With the continued healthy economy (in Malaysia), overseas institutional funds could be diverted from there (in US) to here. If prices drop steeply in the US, then buying opportunities may arise as seen in the early 1990s when fire sale prices were plentiful,” Koh told The Edge Financial Daily.
Nonetheless, Koh maintain a neutral outlook on the sector, given the strong escalation in property prices in recent months.“The market will possibly take a breather… individual foreign buyers may be spooked by uncertainties and we could see an adverse reflection on high-end residential market demand.”
Analysts, however, were more bullish on the outlook for the property market, citing fundamentals including steady domestic consumption and the Employees Provident Fund’s (EPF) move to allow monthly mortgage withdrawal from Account II which could potentially free up to RM9 billion cash annually into the economy.
“We maintain overweight on property as EPF monthly withdrawals will have a significant impact on general residential property. The commercial property will perform well if the government continues to introduce more liberalisation measures to stimulate the market,” a property analyst said.
OSK Investment Bank analyst Mervin Chow said ample liquidity in the market and low interest rates would compel most Malaysian households to look at investments outside the banking sector.
“Recent volatility in the equity market has given most Malaysians little alternative but to consider storing their wealth in physical property asset, especially those in excellent locations with potential capital appreciation and other wealth creation.
“In addition, higher-end properties are generally perceived as one of the better hedges against inflation in a thriving economy,” he said.
He said Malaysian high-end and luxury properties were also expected to continue drawing interest from investors looking to diversify into cheaper investments outside Singapore and Hong Kong.
“The estimated accumulated excess current account surpluses of US$900 billion (RM2.9 trillion) by Opec implies further inflows of petrodollars into Malaysia for investments or purchase in real assets.
“Also, exemptions from Foreign Investment Committee’s (FIC) approval to purchase houses below RM250,000 with unlimited home loans that a foreigner could undertake and the strengthening of the ringgit will continue to make Malaysian properties an attractive investment proposition to foreigners,” Chow said.
The demand for commercial property in the Klang Valley has been buoyant, particularly in the Golden Triangle and Bangsar/Pantai enclave, not least due to competition from local and foreign real estate investment trust funds (REITs).
Chow said Malaysia’s office market had not matured fully, and this was reflected in its estimated annual capital appreciation of 6% to 8%, compared with 3% to 4% in Singapore and Hong Kong.
“The prime driver for this segment in the Klang Valley would be the continuous mismatch between demand and supply of Prime A office space for the next 12 to 15 months until the next supply cycle, which is expected to hit the market by mid-2009,” he said.
He also said demand for office locations outside Kuala Lumpur city centre would pick up with the decentralisation trend sparked by high rental and traffic congestions, which had seen many rental-sensitive tenants move out to KL Sentral (Bangsar/Pantai enclave), Petaling Jaya, Subang Jaya, Shah Alam and Damansara Heights.
“We still favour the Golden Triangle and Central Business District as a result of strong demand from rich and growing multinational companies,” he added.
KL Sentral, Bangsar, Mid Valley and Mont Kiara areas are featuring prominently as high-growth locations in the Klang Valley for both high-end residential and commercial properties, on the back of firm demand from affluent locals and foreigners.
However, analysts are cautious about the residential market in Johor, saying there is an overhang in the middle to high-end segment and a general decline in housing prices despite prospects in the Iskandar Development Region. “Only limited locations like Nusajaya and Tebrau City are thriving,” Chow said.