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COL Stock Picks: Model Portfolio (January 2013)

The good thing is that more and more Filipinos are now looking at stocks as a viable investment instrument. The goal is, of course, to have more Filipino citizens who are financially literate, because that is key to developing the financial markets that could help drive the country’s economic growth.

Of course, there is still much work to be done since only less than 1% of the Philippine population are currently invested in stocks (as seen in the Infographic on the Profile of the Filipino Stock Market Investor).

The bad thing, though, with this current trend of Filipinos joining the stocks bandwagon is that a lot do so without understanding how exactly the stock market works.

Philippine Business Bank (PBB) sets IPO in February 2013

Last year we reported that the Zest-O group’s savings bank Philippine Business Bank (PBB) has filed for application with the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) to conduct an initial public offering. Recent reports show that the PSE has approved the bank’s application and the IPO will push through this February 2013.

Top Stock Picks (Maybank ATR KimEng, January 2013)

What are the best stocks to buy this 2013?

For those who are into stock trading, this is perhaps the one question they have been asking everyday. Sadly, no one can give a 100% correct answer to that question. No one can claim he or she has the power to accurately predict what will happen in the stock market.

Best PSE index (PSEi) stocks of 2012

Whenever local stocks are reported on business news channels and dailies, a certain statistic is usually cited to assess if the market’s performance is up or down. This number is the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) — a weighted index of the trading day’s performance of 30 publicly-listed companies. (See Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) composition in 2012)

PSE closes at another all-time high, breaks 6,000 level

“More fun at 6,000.”

Traders and brokers at the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) carried signs carrying that message yesterday and the market followed.

Philippine stocks closed at another all-time high yesterday, up 1.73% from the previous day’s trading, ending at 6,044.91. This is the first time in local stocks history that the 6,000-level was reached.

Philippines one of Top 10 best stock markets worldwide

The Philippine stock market registered one of the highest gains worldwide in 2012, ending with a full-year return of 32.95%. This earned the Philippines the 9th spot, out of a hundred countries, in terms of stock market performance based on preliminary data from Bloomberg.

The 32.95% return means if you invested in the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) from the start of the year, your P100,000 would now be worth P132,950.

Where to buy cheap iPad Mini: Price comparison by country

It has been our tradition to compare prices of Apple products in various Asia-Pacific countries in order to determine the country that offers the cheapest iPhone or iPad. We’ll do the same today — this time, for the iPad Mini which was recently launched by Apple in several countries in the past weeks.

We compared the prices of the iPad Mini in 12 countries, and we discovered that the cheapest iPad Mini in Asia-Pacific is being sold in…

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