Zigfred Diaz

HIGH-yield investment schemes are a hot topic nowadays in the Philippines. Various entities have successfully enticed not only Filipinos both in the Philippines and abroad but even foreigners to get into these get rich quick scheme which offers rate of returns from 30 percent per month to as high as 400 percent per month!

WHEN people ask me what specific area of law I engage in practice in, I reply that among the areas of practice in law that I engage myself in is estate planning. I often get a quick reply, “So you focus on real-estate practice?”

GO placidly amid the market noise, rumors and the haste, and remember what peace and riches are there may be in less market activity and silence.

If you were to capsulize investing into three words, what would those be? “Margin of safety”—legendary investor Warren Buffett once said, that these are the three most important words of investing.

“Investment is most intelligent when it is most business like.” These words have guided the greatest stock-market investors throughout the ages. Every time I give a stock-market investing seminar, I jokingly tell people to recite this mantra before they open their online brokerage account and make a decision to buy a certain stock. And while telling them to recite the mantra may be a joke, learning to invest intelligently definitely isn’t.

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