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cubiclecarbonate
post Jan 8 2012, 05:26 PM

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Hi all,

Im a fresh graduate, 23yo and just starting my career with a 2.5k salary. Right now, the only saving i have done is 30% from my salary. I just started my job last month in the middle of Dec.

I need some suggestion on investment. What should i do with the rest of my salary? I drive a kancil to go to work. Can claim petrol and company sponsored the seasonal pass for parking for 160 per month. Since right now is the beginning of the year, i want to do some investment. What investment is good and promising?

Which is good? Buy a house or made some savings or investment like ASB or FD or Gold investment? Since im still 23, so i dont have to care much about the repayment time, but based on scenario la.

Thanks. Peace.
cubiclecarbonate
post Jan 8 2012, 06:47 PM

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QUOTE(kparam77 @ Jan 8 2012, 06:43 PM)
FD is saving not invstment.

setup emergency fund in FD... at least 6 month ur monthly expecses.

if u bumi, ASB is the right choice for the safety.

buy insurance first, medical card enaugh for health protection.

take sometime to educate urself for riskier invetment like stock, unit trust, gold, properties  and others. subscribe to the edge personal money will hep u too for the knowledge.
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i will buy personal insurance this month. roughly 100 per month.

will go into asb, but dunno how to start sweat.gif

already read from the asb thread, but still dont quite understand the flow.
cubiclecarbonate
post Nov 8 2012, 01:07 AM

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how you guys do your savings.. so much compared to mine..

My loans
-I just bought an apartment which I rent it to others with loan of RM341 monthly and rent the apartment at RM550 per month.

-I have 2 different ASB loan valued RM50k each with monthly payment at RM298.

my monthly saving is unstable.

other expenses are
-parking = RM6 per day * 20 = RM120
-petrol = RM50 per week * 4 = RM200
-food = RM5-RM7 per day * 20 = RM140
-toll = RM4 per day * 20 = RM80

so, I left with ~RM900 monthly excluding entertainment.

My question is how to get RM30k end of next year around November? sad.gif
Will sell the apartment next year and hopefully it will brings me the cash I want.
cubiclecarbonate
post Nov 8 2012, 05:33 PM

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QUOTE(cynthusc @ Nov 8 2012, 12:21 PM)
When you mentioned the rent of RM550 per month, does that include you paying for the monthly maintenance? If it does that means your return is lesser. You also have to calculate the cost of maintaining the apartment (repairs) and the assessment fees.

The way to save more is to earn more than you spend. So the strategy should be twofold...increase your income and decrease your expenses. Increasing your income includes increasing the returns on your investment. 

In your case your goal is to save RM30K at the end of one year. At the moment you can perhaps save RM500 per month. As you need to save RM2500 per month, this means you need to increase your income by RM2K. You can earn this by selling your property (Make sure that you sell with a profit of at least RM30K) or get another job that allows you to bring in an additional 2K per month. You can work either at night or during the weekends. If you can work during the weekends for at least 8 hours a day with RM30 per hour, that would earn you an additional RM1920 per month.
When I was much younger, these are some of the jobs I did to earn money to pay for my university fees:-
1. Telemarketing (I could earn almost 3K a month with commissions but you have to be persistent and thick faced)
2. Wrote papers for government proposals. This was very lucrative. I earned up to 5K per paper. It is hard work and deadlines must be met. Once I worked on a paper for three straight days without sleep (just 15 min power naps)
3. Babysitting and Tuition (I used to do babysitting at night for tired moms who want to go out - I charged RM10 per hour. I think the rates are much higher now)
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Thanks for such a word.

For the rent, is excluded maintenance which is RM70 monthly. All I can depends now is to sell the apartment with the right price at the right time. I can get higher than 30k if I sell it according to market price. That is the lowest I can get. Hopefully this will be correct way.

The bold part, can you PM me some details about it? I have no idea about that.

Thanks cynthusc nod.gif

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