A few weeks ago, I had this very rare opportunity to talk to
fellow musicians and artists about investment. And I am with great speakers as
well namely Des and Krissy who I adored to the core plus with Carmi and Kassy
who were equally beautiful and great hosts.
The event was held in UCC Café and my role was to discuss
about the 52 Week Money Challenge. I hope the ones in there were motivated to
pursue the challenge in whatever increments they prefer.
Yet this post will not tackle about the challenge. Don’t
worry I have been posting about it every week so I’ll spare you with more
details. This time I want to share what Des had shared in that Sunday. I am
certain that many of you would be interested on her talk. And for sure, you
would learn a lot from it.
To give you an overview, Des Feliciano is an art director,
illustrator, photographer and dancer. She is one multi-talented girl I must
say.
She started her investing journey because of the book “My
Maid Invests In the Stock Market”. The title alone is so thought provoking
because of the notion that maids now can do stocks. Why wouldn’t she as well.
There are things that Des stated that one needs to do prior
to investing. One needs to pay debts first, increase their sources of income,
build emergency fund and get protection like life insurance. I perfectly agree
on these things since one cannot invest his or her emergency fund. Even more, your
investment money must be your extra money. That is why adding new sources of
income would be very essential.
Hence, if you are done checking those items up, here are the
things you need to do. First start with a goal. What are you planning to do
with your stocks? Is it for retirement, your house, your kid’s education or
what not? Have a definite goal so you can be able to gauge as well the money
that you would need in the process.
Investing is very essential simply because inflation is
beating us up at 4%. Our savings account can only do so little at 0.375%.
Whereas investments can yield up to 19% and even more. With stocks, you can
earn via capital appreciation and dividends.
For average earners like us, we are encouraged to invest
regularly every month in order to get a hold of the peso cost averaging in our
portfolio. To know more about stocks, Des encouraged to invest in yourself by
reading books and other resources with regards to stocks and investment. In the
end, this will be for your financial and personal betterment.
P.S. To those doing the 52 Week Money Challenge and 52 Week Money Challenge Version 2, it is Week 11 already! Did you deposit the next amount yet?
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