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 Personal Financial Management V3, It's all about managing your $$$

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post Sep 4 2019, 05:06 PM

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Dear all,

Good day to all, grateful to come across this thread, and I am committed to learn from all of you with regards to personal finance management.

The first topic/question that comes to my mind as followings:
Understanding that it is highly advisable to pay more in the monthly housing loan repayment, in order to shorten the loan tenure and reduce the interests over time, for example if the monthly installment is RM2,000, it helps a great deal by paying RM2,500 or higher (given that the loan is a flexi-loan).

However, on the other hand, should we be paying RM500 more to reduce the loan amounts, or invest the RM500 somewhere else?

I understand that the rule of thumb is to calculate the potential gains/cost-savings by weighing the options, and go for the option that provide the higher yield, the question here is more towards what are the other options that we will have other than paying more to reduce the loan on a monthly basis.

Thank you in advance for the advice, grateful for that.
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post Sep 4 2019, 06:00 PM

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QUOTE(55665566 @ Sep 4 2019, 05:57 PM)
Yes! If you can earn more than your interest rate, don't pay extra to your loan.
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Thank you friend for your kind comment and response.

I will have to do a calculation on the savings for paying extra to the loan, and the potential yields for any investment intend to make.
Do you have any other suggestions?

First I will also have to learn how the amount of extra payment to loan will reduce the interested at what amount.
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post Oct 18 2019, 01:37 PM

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QUOTE(Reonix91 @ Oct 17 2019, 08:57 PM)
Hey guys, I'm single and here are my Personal Finance status

Gross salary RM4000-RM8,000
Its pretty random as its basics with comissions
Monthly expenses (Food, groceries, work related etc) RM800
Parent RM300
Rental RM250
Car loan (Share with siblings) RM250
Insurance RM210
Phone RM 50
Internet RM100
Electric RM100
PTPTN RM230 (Left 18 Grand more)
ASB I max up to 200Grand (RM1,000 per month) roughly
I steadily save up 3Grand-4Grand per month.

Total saving : 168Grand

I seek you guys advice on what should I do with the 168k in my saving account. I'm planning to close 200k end of this year. Your insights much appreciated.
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You have got a truly great savings progress my friend.

 

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