Yesterday on Friday, after a work-related briefing, I added financial literacy briefing for the staff at PT Excellent Infotama Kreasindo and PT Aktiva Kreasi Investama, my small business. Non-work briefings are usually held every Friday. The material can be varied and not necessarily related to work. We have invited my friend Mr. Endy Muhardin to…
I have neighbors around my parents’ house. When they were young, they worked hard according to their skills. Some became motorcycle taxi drivers, construction workers, farmers, cargo carriers, etc. Their income is quite adequate when they are still working. They can live appropriately in conditions that are neither excessive nor lacking. As they get older,…
2020 has been a challenging year, but thanks god, I finally made my first milestone for FIRE journey. As 2021 approaches (actually, it’s been a while as it is now February 2021 🙂 ), I decided to set 250K SGD as my portfolio target at the end of this year. 250K SGD is an optimistic…
This is the third update to my portfolio in 2020. It’s February 2021 now and if I updating regularly, it should be the 14th update and December portfolio is the 12th. I missed regular portfolio update (and also missed to update this blog as well), so I will restart portfolio update in 2021 and looking…
It’s been a while since my last post in this blog. Almost a year without an update. I occasionally updating my personal blog (in Indonesian), but rarely for this blog. There’s many things happened in my life. Surviving and growing up my IT business while facing a slow down threat from Covid-19 pandemic; Developing new…
As the number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia increase, our daily life has changed dramatically. Many of us doing our jobs from home; our children going to online learning, guided by their teacher as most of school closed for minimum 2 weeks; and it is recommended to avoid crowded places like mall or mass gathering…
Beside financial sector like stocks, mutual fund and bond, I have an alternate portfolio in direct investment in agro/agriculture sector : paddy fields and banana farm. Banana farm is my long desire. I have wanted it for a long time even before my investment in stocks and mutual fund. Due to tight budget, I thought…
Market Crash Indonesian markets have suffered its worst year since the global financial crisis of 2008 and 1998, as fears over the impact of the coronavirus and oil price continued to haunt investors. Today, IDX halts trading as shares drop more than 5%, creating -22.28 market loss year to date (YTD). I became an eyewitness…
This is the second update to my portfolio in 2020 and entirely based on my StashAway account statement as I’m slowly moving long term investment to StashAway. 2020 wasn’t a good start for investment. After a little unrealized loss at the end of January 2020 and some unrealized profit in the middle of February 2020,…
I grew up in a countryside, a kampung (village) at a small district near Jakarta, with beautiful scenery and peaceful environment. As my small district getting bigger, I lost most of the scenery and rarely see paddy fields which was very common in my childhood. Last year, I have an opportunity to get similar experience,…