Cake and Personal Finance: The Aftermath
This talk has been in the works for the past 2 months or so, with the idea spawned by friends asking me about financial matters and Lyn-Lyn's own mini-seminars with fellow Pinoys in the UK.
After setting the date and venue (thanks Kaka and Slice!) it was time to get my thoughts down and figure out how to make a poster and slideshow presentation.
Anyway, I tried to get my ideas across and I think I was able to convince some of them to finally try out investing at mutual funds and/or the stock market. There was a lot of laughter and sharing of experiences among the participants, so I'll have to say that Cake and Personal Finance was a success :)
Cake and Personal Finance by Jill Sabitsana
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PS: Nung May 2012 ko pla gnawa ung mini-seminar, and nung umuwi ako ng Pinas just this December, I brought with me 8 forms ng fellow ofw ko pra submit ko sa brokerage firm. Total 10 lahat, because ung 2 naman, hnde na cla naghintay pa ng December, nag-international mail delivery na cla agad. And so far, it's good to hear na green ang portfolio nila, and I can sense that hope w/in them na: "Yes, my financial future is being taken cared of." =)
And kudos to you too for helping out other Pinoys in the UK :)
I would love to hold another talk but definitely not in the near future as it takes too much effort and time to do on a regular basis.
Why don't you start reading personal finance websites and blogs to start your financial education? I recommend Learnvest, Yahoo Finance and the blogs in my blogroll.
Hay... kinilig ako with the idea but I know that I'll be too tired and busy in the following months to actually pull this off.
Looks like you have a fallback career already! :D hehe
But seriously, great job. Me, I can write abou tit, but it turns out a dynamic one-on-one talk is still not in my arsenal :D So kudos to you for pulling this off!
It helped that I was surrounded mostly by friends so the exchange came naturally and I basically just steered the conversation and ensured that the talk stayed on track (because girls have a tendency to go off-tangent on most things:p).
It was a very satisfying experience which made all the preps in the past few weeks worth it.
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